On Thursday I went to see the mayor for yom haatzmaut. The mayor invited us to come and listen to him speak. We went on coach busses. Their were huge windows, air conditioning I think. There were also things you could pull over the windows to make it dim. The seats were very comfortable. When we got there, we sat down in a huge fancy hallway. When you look up you can see lots of other floors. Then they gave us lunch. It was a sandwich with cheese, tomatoes, and other stuff. Then a few people spoke and then the mayor spoke. He talked about how America was friends with Israel and how Israel is a strong country. After that someone gave us stickers with a number on it. It turns out that they were dividing us into 20 teams. The shin shins gave us challenges like a code and a word search. I didn’t really like my team that much except for one person. They didn’t really take whatever idea I had into consideration until I said it a million times or someone else says it. I think it was because they were all much older than me and thought I’m not as smart. But that’s a random guess. Then we got prizes, got cake and snacks, and went back on the coach busses to go back to school.