<p>“Lucie Wright Writes: The Two Wailing Walls” (Massachusetts)</p>
<p>[The</a> two wailing walls - Passport - Boston.com](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2010/07/two-wailing-wal.html]The”>http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2010/07/two-wailing-wal.html)</p>
<p>Lucie, a member of the Class of 2014, has written a dispatch from Israel for the online journal Boston.com. Lucie graduated from the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham and won the Wiswell Prize in English. The last paragraph beautifully sums up the kind of student she’ll be at Princeton.</p>
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<p>"Filing off the bus, we say goodbye to our guide Dan for the afternoon. An Israeli tour guide, he cant come with us into the West Bank, a territory governed by the Palestinian Authority. We pass one by one through the gate of an iron fence and from there it is an empty slope leading up to the barrier. Its two, maybe three stories high, solid concrete and gray. I look up and see loops of barbed wire lining the top. A guard shouts at a few of us in Hebrew. No pictures. . . .
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<p>At a glance this trip might seem more touristy than anything else, but it was the epitome of one of the most valued lessons I took away from my four years at Noble and Greenough School. Nobles taught me that it was more important to be well informed and unsure about where you stood than to pick a side for the sake of having an opinion. This was not a trip about judgments. It was not a trip about finding evidence to support whatever political views you had coming in. This was a trip about observations, observing so that we might better understand the people and appreciate the complexities of the region. The only conclusion I am prepared to make is that any individual involved in negotiations could benefit from a trip to the two wailing walls."</p>