סבלנות Patience

If there are two things you need in order to make Aliyah to Israel the first is being Jewish, the second is possessing patience—and lots of it. I have been here for a couple of days and am not only trying lots of different foods, practicing my Hebrew, riding public transportation again, but am also discovering a never before known amount of patience. Some examples: took me about 4 hours to get a blackberry from the phone company, having the taxi driver get lost from the airport and spending a good deal of time backtracking, and finally going to the bank four times until I could open an account (which took 2 hours and a lot of haggling). Well, at least I have a phone, bank account, and a bed to sleep on from now on. Side note, had Mohammad’s Falafel—and for all of my Hebrew U friends back in the states—ya its everything you are thinking and more + eggplant.

To Start להתחיל

I once said that "starting is always the hardest part" but I guess i should really say that continuing and writing more than one post every 6 months is also hard...What can I say, my sister got the writing genes and I got the move halfway around the world and join the Israeli army genes. (Humor genes too) I have less than 14 hours until I am sitting on a plane with my 2 tons of luggage and flying to Israel. I am excited, a little nervous, and very eager to start this journey. I hope everyone who spends their time reading this site gets their money's worth and enjoys/is intrigued about what I write. Please feel free to comment or write to me, and yell at me when i dont write anything new. Thats all for now....שלום

PS: I must create a good title for the blog, so please send me suggestions as I'm not that creative, all i have right now is "Taking my Talents to the Mediterranean"...I know, its not that good.

Ari Solomon