Bedouin Tents Tiyul

A couple of weeks ago we went to a Bedouin village to learn about the Bedouin people and about the way that they live their life different from ours. This experience was one that was very interesting and one that was surprising to say the least. Going into this experience, I was convinced that these people lived so much different than we do, and that it would be very hard to be a Bedouin, but I was mistaken. While visiting the Bedouin village, to much of my dismay, the people were very normal. There were many differences that distinguished differences between our cultures, but they were not off the wall as I had expected. A elder Bedouin man came to our tent and gave to us a speech on his life. He explained that he like us had a car, and his kids went to school and did everything a normal kid would do, but he lived his life following the Bedouin way which meant that he built his own house with sheep skin as the surrounding, and was a farmer as his job raising cattle and sheep which are worth a lot of money. These people made lots of money but did not spend it the way that most people would, and that was something that made me stop and think for a second. It made me realize how our society is so based on wants, and that by living as the Bedouin's do, which is for the most part comfortably, we could stop ourselves from wasting as much as we do. This experience was something that was really neat, and living as a Bedouin for the night was very fun.