Early morning on May 2nd, 2011, Ariel, Miriam, and, Sofia arrived at the SFO airport. We went through security and boarded our plane. By the time we got to Philadelphia we were pretty tired.
As we boarded the plane we saw a large number of babies. How cute, right!?! But NO! They were cried entire 11 hour flight. Although we were not too excited about the whole “baby” situation, we got excited when we saw that we each seat had private TV screens that had unlimited free movies. We watched movies and slept the whole flight. We all awoke at once when we saw on our screens that we were 30 minutes away from landing. Our hearts started pounding. Fast, Faster. We unzipped our worn out backpacks and took out a stick of gum. 29 minutes passed. 1 more minute to go. We were so excited to finally land in the place that we have been learning about in our school forever. We had finally arrived in the place about which we have seen innumerable videos and pictures and heard many lectures. We had arrived! We made it to Israel!
We were greeted at Ben Gurion Airport by the Keshet madrichim (counselors), and we walked to our mini-bus. It was about a twenty minute drive to the hostel where we checked in and settled down. After we had cleaned up and reunited with Orli and Shira, we drove to the Jaffa port and looked at the view of the ocean. We played a few games and sat down and to write letters to ourselves. By that time we were all very hungry so we went to dinner at a restaurant called Café’ Kapiche. All the waiters in this café were deaf so we had to communicate with sign language, which was very hard and cool. When we finished with our delicious dinner we returned to our hostel and went to bed.
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