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By Leigha Hinds

Today began at 8:00 am as a typical Etgar 36 day with sitting on the bus heading to a new city. As we approached New York City, we watched Keeping the Faith to introduce us to the life of New York.  In …

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By Brett Horowitz

One bright and shining morning on July 20, Etgar 36 woke up to intense amounts of heat and humidity in Ohio. After the usual hotel breakfast we began our trek to Kent State University where we met with Alan Canfora. Alan was …

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By Ilana Engel

This morning we woke up to another sweltering hot day in the Windy City – making many of us wonder how Chicago got its chilly nickname. We began the day with an early meeting with Cook County Commissioner Gainer – an articulate …

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By Jaime Kaiser

Glad to be reunited with our bus and driver Robert, we set off for our first full day in the city of Chicago! Our first stop was the Medill school of Journalism at Northwestern University where we met with Dean Levine. He …

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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 …

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By Steven Aranyi

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By Matt Appel