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First Day at Centropa Academy

The CENTROPA Summer Academy that I am here for started today.  There must be 70 of us in the entire group.  The other people are mostly educators and are from every country you can imagine...USA, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Greece, Israel, Turkey, Chicken and rice...(that was a joke, haha..not) Serbia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria and on and on.  We mingled in the lobby at about noon and then headed to our first session at the Oranienberg Strasse Neu Synagogue.  There we had a welcome session and learned more about what the rest of the week would be.

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