What a 24 hours (or so, I have no clue how long its been since I left home). I'm here updating from my apartment in Jerusalem. I live at 6 Mapu (pronounced mah-poo) which is by far the funniest street name of anyone at HUC this year. I left Chicago Thursday afternoon and flew to Rome, stayed there for 4 hours in the airport, then got my connection to Tel-Aviv where I boarded a Sheirut to my apartment in Jerusalem. The Sheirut took me straight to the apartment so I didn't have to try to find it.
Ryan met me here when I got in and showed me the place. It's great. A little grungy, but lots of good space. We went so I could buy soap and shampoo and shower, because I had been wearing the same clothes the whole time I traveled and I felt dirty. After showering, I met up with a group of about 10 HUC students at someones apartment. I'm not totally sure where it was, but I found it eventually.
From there I walked with Marina (Marz) to HUC to meet up with Beth and Sam and we walked to Ben Yehuda Street so I could get a falafel to make my arrival in Israel official. I got to see Beth's place then walked back to my apartment. However, I ended up going the wrong way from Beth's and ended up in Mea Sh'arim (the extremely orthodox community) and had to turn around and go back. I won't make that mistake again.
Now its time to go to bed and get ready for Shabbat tomorrow. I still have to unpack and Ryan and I are going to buy things that we need for the apartment during the day tomorrow (like a blanket, thank god I stole one from Alitalia!).
Lila Tov from Jerusalem!
Brian
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