Day 1 (and a half)
June 28th, 2006
First off, its hard to count days here. Not that the sun has issues with rising a setting, but after traveling for so many hours I don’t know how to count my first day. As a result, my “first day” will include all the travel and my actually first full day in Israel and everything in between. As soon as I arrived in Tel Aviv airport, I found my luggage and built myself a little fort where I could camp out for the night. But after worrying about 3 hours of worrying about my bags every time I needed to get up and go to the bathroom or get a drink, I decided to get a hotel in side Jerusalem. So I made my way over to the Israeli tourist information booth to try and arrange something for the night. After talking with the young woman who was working the booth for a while, I left with two things. A hotel for the night and the email address of young woman “In case I needed anything else”.
I left the Airport on a Sherut (shared taxi) headed for Jerusalem and met 3 guys who will be participating in the same Ulpan (Hebrew language program) as me. When the Sherut driver dropped me off at the place where my hotel was, I was a little frightened because it looked a little less then “kosher” and it was at night and…. I found out the next day that it was just as my new friend from the airport led me to believe. It was just fine. Dragging luggage down a dark street after 24 + hrs of travel can seriously alter your perspective.
Well, the next morning I made my way over to the Hebrew U. campus and started the registration process. This was an incredibly smooth/swift process which ended with me in my new room at the dorms and chatting with my new roommate (his name is Daniel) I will soon post pictures of campus, my dorm room, everything I can think of. But until then…
Peace, love, ‘n granola from Jerusalem!
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