When the shinshinim woke us up today, I wasn’t thinking of learning about poetry. I was thinking about chocolate pudding (which by the way, wasn’t there). We met with Eliaz Cohen and we began outside, which was very refreshing. He told us that he likes to write with pen and paper, it would be cool if it was a scroll. He described the dead sea - and how you can see something else every part of the day (reflections from everything/colors). I thought it was really interesting how many different points of views there can be of just one place. We then listened to a song written by two young people; one writing the poems with the other writing the music. We listened to the music and it talked about the dead sea and its beauties. After listening to the song, we spread out and worked on poems about the dead sea. After coming back from a couple relaxing minutes in the sun with the breeze lightly hitting us, we got the opportunity to share what we wrote. There were a lot of really cool poems written. Someone wrote about how he was at the dead sea standing next to someone else, and described the landscape. The friend then pushed him off the cliff. This poem got a laugh out of everyone. I think that in all, this workshop was a good start to the day, and It was very peaceful and nice to be sitting outside in the early Jerusalem morning.