The Second Day of the Reunion, Herzlia, Israel 07/02/06

The second day of the Reunion. I took the right exit to Herzlia this time! What was still kicking my butt was the one way streets of Tel Aviv. The first day was pretty much asking and answering questions like, “what class are you?” (graduating class, that is), “what do you do?”, “where are you living now”, “are you married and how many kids”. The second day, we talked about the good old days. We recalled funny stories and remembered many who had now passed away. We also got together to brainstorm in how to keep this alumni association going and how we could get together periodically in different parts of the world, mainly in the US and Europe.

Then came what everyone had been waiting for. One of the biggest annual events in AIS was the Hockey Marathon. It is basically when the High school would be divided between the Red and Blue teams. Each colored team would be divided from A (the best players) all the way to maybe F (the ok players) depending on how many students there were. So the guys’ Red A would play Blue A and then the girls’ Red A would play Blue A and so on. It was an event that would last 36 hours. It was awesome. So for the reunion, we had a mini Hockey Marathon. Although we weren’t as young and as flexible as we used to be, it was an enjoyable time. Gonen, the guys’ X-PE teacher and funny man, was the referee of the game. For most of the reunion, the Eagles had been played, and the Hockey Marathon was not an exception, mostly because Gonen is a big fan. As their music played over the loud speakers of the gym, Gonen would play along with his acoustic guitar with a whistle in his mouth, getting everybody off and on the court to sing and shout. It was a hilarious. So we played about 4 or 5 hours, only because that’s how long our bodies were able to resist. By the way, I scored 3 goals!!

At 7pm, everybody gathered at the beach of Herzlia Pituach for a luau. There was a lot of food including fellafel and Shawarma and an open bar. There was more talking, some singing and finally the event was officially closed very late at night.