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By Cole Mantell

For many of us today this is the last full day that we will be spending together as some of us will be going home after 22 days. We started our day in Haight Ashbury which was the scene of the counter-cultural …

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By Noa Allen

We started off the day at the San Francisco public library for a meeting, meet a very inspiring man named Leon Veal. He was illiterate until he was 44. He sent us the message that we have the power to change the …

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By Danielle Gordon

Today we left the hotel and departed for the beautiful drive up the California coast to the cool weather in San Francisco. We stopped for lunch in Santa Barbara which was really cool, just looking at the shops and walking around. Then …

By Netanya Lerner

Today we experienced the diversity of San Francisco by exploring its various neighborhoods. We began the day by going to the Haight-Ashbury district. We saw where famous singers and musicians lived, as well as heard about how this neighborhood was the center of the counter-culture revolution of …

By Robin Breindel

Today was our first full day in San Francisco. Some of us began the day with breakfast while others of us chose to sleep later. The need to walk only a few blocks and have a choice of where to go for breakfast really helped create the …

By Josh Edelson

Today we traveled up the coast of California. We saw some of the most beautiful views. Two hours after leaving Los Angeles, we stopped in Santa Barbara for lunch and explored this unique town. After eating, we drove a few more hours and stopped in San Luis …

By Richard Schuller

We began our last day as a group of 44 in San Francisco. Since it was our last day before the 22-day kids left, it was decided to be a leisurely day to end our stay on the West Coast.

We began the day with a late …

By Matt Olstein

On Thursday we drove up the coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco. We stopped to have lunch in a Danish town called Solvang and then again at a beach in San Luis Obispo. We then made it to San Francisco in time for dinner, and after that …

By Ali Ziegler

On June 29, we became Etgar 36
And immediately destroyed the cliques.
We talked over each other’s voices, so awkward and so new
Because it would be forever until we said bye to the 22s.

I won’t talk about forever friendship because that would be too cheesy…

By Blake Engelhard

Today was another exciting day in my favorite city, San Francisco. Although a spectacularly fun filled day, today was also a day filled with sadness, a day filled with goodbyes and farewells. After accepting the reality that 11 of the closest friends I have made are flying …