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| Arons Blog from Summer U 2007 in Rome | |||||||||
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| 01.09.2007 | |||||||||
| Like allready mentioned yesterday, the day started at 5 o’clock
for me, You’ll probably ask why. Well, matter of fact beeing,
that we’re off to visit the pope. A delegation of 30 students,
representing all the member unions of the EUJS was offered the unique
occasion to have an audience with the pope! The pope greeted us with the prase: „I bid a very warm welcome to the participants of the Summer-U, sponsored by the European Union of Jewish Students“. He was greeted back by us with one simple word: „Shalom“! After this, Olga Israel, Chairperson of EUJS and Gad Lazarov, Vice-Chair of the UGEI (Italian Union of Jewish Students) were personaly welcomed by Pope Benedict, were he was handed out a letter, in which the EUJS called for his support in speaking up for the victims of the genocide in Darfur, After this, we joined the rest of the Summer-U, to have either guided tours around the city, or for some of us, private walks to visit this amazing (and on this day also amazingly hot) city. After coming home to our hotel at about 11 o’clock, there were still some brave souls, ready to party, but for most of us, there was only one goal: finally some sleep... |
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