Hello everyone,

Today, after 24 hours of travel time, we finally arrived in Montevideo. The flight from Panama was edited to include a two hour stop in Bolivia due to weather concerns. We were disappointed that we were not allowed to leave the plane, however we were glad to finally get back in the air. Arriving in Uruguay, we finally met our guide for the day, Elisa, who is also one of our Hillel program coordinators. Our hotel, the Regency Golf, is beautiful and the river is an awesme sight. We spent the day getting familiar with the city with Elisa. First, we ate lunch at a river-side restaurant, then we walked to a street market. After, we made our way to Hillel, where we met the rest of our program guides and came up with ideas for what we will be doing with kids at the soup kitchen for which we are volunteering tomorrow morning. Now, we are having a barbecue at Hillel and are all planning on enjoying the city´s nightlife tonight before we turn in for our early morning soup kitchen work.

Justin Seltzer