Great Year

Describing Kol Ami on a scale of 1-10 doesn’t do the program justice. The fun, challenging, educational, and crazy half year I’ve had included life long connections, interesting classes that taught me raw life skills, and best of all, strengthened my leadership abilities tremendously. There are many times that the program was challenging and made me doubt why I am here, but those moments were some of the main reasons why I feel like this is the best program for me, or anyone for that matter. Waking up early, working on our group dynamic, planning activities, and days that end late all are factors that were at first very difficult for me. After some time, it became easier and even natural for me to do these things and as the group dynamic improved I felt more and more like I belonged here. The main reason I highly recommend this program is because I look at anerixan gap year programs that my friends are on this year and see the amount of free time they have along with the less intense environment and used to get jealous, but quickly understood that I am always occupied, entertained, and learning here which is something that makes me so happy. I have met and made close connections with Israelis his year, have learned about myself and enjoyed being challegened the way I did. Again, I highly recommend this program. I have gained so much here with no regrets.