Thursday, August 7, 2008

israel really real

so, i'll be brief since my computer is about to die and i haven't gotten a charger adapter yet. after leaving LA at 12:45 PM yesterday, i traveled to atlanta with the brithright group i'm staffing (fucking 40 18-24 year olds) and then finally a 13 hour flight to tel aviv. we landed, met the owner of our birthright program and are now in our hotel in jerusalem. tomorrow we will go to the kotel (wailing wall) for shabbat, which will apparently be very special since people are literally just sitting on the ground reading prayer books.

i think it finally hit me as i was in the plane on the way over here how much i'm going to miss my family and friends and the weight of the fact that i will be here for a long time started to feel heavy. i also realized that when one is in the air, time is irrelevant and can't be stationary. but that's just me being weird. more on that later.

love,

sally

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