Welcome to my blog....I hope to keep you posted on my adventures in Israel while I am studying abroad.

July 6 I left for Israel and my wonderful cousin drove me to the airport because my parents were in Italy. [We thought they were going to be coming back the day before and we would get to see each other before I left but we misread their ticket :( ] Off I went to the airport. I got there with plenty of time and when i arrived at the gate, a kid from a Panim el Panim trip I staffed was there. We chatted about where we were heading. Little did I realize that our boarding was delayed. Finally we got boarded, only to find our flight was delayed due to weather in Newark. I moved to the front of the plane so I could get off quickly and catch my flight to Paris. After running across Newark airport to another terminal I find I have missed my flight. Ughh, so I was upset, I went to the ticket counter and asked if they could get me on another flight that night. There was a seat on a later flight direct to Israel. Somehow I was already entered into the computer for it! Long flight but gladly made it to Israel just a few minutes later than my scheduled flight. As I go to exchange money this girl comes up calling my name....ends up it was Star who was supposed to be on my Paris-Israel flight. We were all ready to share a Sheruit to J-town but I couldn't find one of my suitcases. I went to file a lost luggage claim, oy.

As the second to last person in the Sheruit, i was finally dropped of at my apartment....well down the hill from it. I finally arrived and got to meet my roommates. We got ready and went out for dinner with Matt and David....nice time. Came home and crashed.