I am an Israeli

At about 3:30PM Tuesday morning, September 1st I finally rejoined the Jewish People in the Land of Israel. My experience in the airport was lets say less than pleasant, but I guess helped me to acclimate to the way Israel works. It took a couple of hours at least until the ministry of absorption signed off on the three necessary forms. When I got the forms I went back down stairs to get my luggage and it was nowhere to be found. It took ELAL like an hour and a half to find it, to my great relief. At that point I was supposed to get a free ride to Jerusalem, but that also took like an hour and a half. So my first 5 hours in Israel was spent in the airport.On Wednesday I went to the post office in the old city so that I could get my health insurance. The ministry of absorption gave me a slip at the airport, which then I have to submit to a post office and they send it to the appropriate health coverage. Well the first place told me that they could not do it. So I went to the other post office near Shar Yaffo and they also told me they could not do it, because their connection was down and that I should return to the first post office and tell them that they should do their job. In any event the guy blew up and me and told me to leave, ah I am loving it. Also I started the madrich job today, which was cool. The yeshiva took the guys to the beach for a BBQ, so that was fun.

On Thursday the guys in the Yeshiva started their learning schedules. The hardest thing about being a madrich is waking up the guys, they simply do not want to get out of bed. I ran around to different offices to try to get forms filled out, but still no luck.

Shabbat was special. The singing and ruach was incredible Friday night the guys in the Yeshiva were flying, that’s the only way I can describe it. On Shabbat morning me and another madrich woke up a few minutes late, but hey what can you do.

Sunday was uneventful, but Monday, today I finally got my kupat cholim, which is health coverage. So thank the Almighty for that. Tomorrow with the help of G-d, I will travel to Ben Gurion to met my brother who is also making Aliyah.