Life is good

Wow, I can say with the utmost confidence that life, is good. I have been incredibly blessed throughout my adventure of making Aliyah and over the past few weeks I have really become attune to just how defining and spectacular this experience has really been.

I have met some really great people here, but i have had the divine experience of meeting a very small number of people here that are categorically amazing and have changed my life forever.

Whats really amazing is that these few have entered my life at such different points in my existence and have still made such life altering impacts. From my dear friend who, though we met 10 years ago in Israel, everyday makes my life better just from being in it.

To the most recent of this elite few who, the more i get to know, the more they inspire me to be the best person I can be, and keep on creating this evolving being that is me.

To the phenomenal and driven person who provided guidance and confidence without even knowing it at time when i needed it most and probably would have been someone i only met once. Fortunately for everyone, the dear friend from 10 years ago fell in love with him and now I'm lucky enough to have this person, and their guidance, in my life forever.

Really though it doesn't stop at the extraordinary people, I truly feel blessed to be here, living, breathing, succeeding and feeling not just happy, but content.

Life is good.

one month later

So tomorrow will be exactly one month since i arrived back in Israel and became a citizen. It is crazy! Part of me feels like i just stepped foot off the plane and i am trying to figure out this crossword puzzle that happens to be in a language I don't speak. At the same time I feel like this has been my home forever. And the fact that I spend my day trying to help other people just like me figure out the same crossword feels so natural.

It is so bizarre. I am kind of in limbo. I am working 9 to 5, and having a social life and going to the gym and really living my life like I have been here for years. But then the reality of the fact that I don;t have health insurance yet, and that i had to have a Hebrew speaking friend set-up the voice mail on my phone because the recorded Hebrew voice speaks way too quickly for me to understand coupled with the fact that i have internet on my phone but can't really use it because it is also only in Hebrew makes me feel like an alien.


I am learning some Hebrew at work though. Although I do work with all English speakers, the vendors, the maintenance and construction guys and the cleaning lady, who i have to communicate with all day, have decided that they will not speak English to me and have actually stuck to it. In realty the cleaning lady and i have no choice but for her to help me with my Hebrew because she is Ethiopian and speaks no English and i clearly don't speak any Ethiopian so we work together with her perfect, and my broken Hebrew. More often than not, a conversation that should take 10 seconds often ends up taking a minute but it is another example of why i love this county and this culture. And, I now have an extensive vocabulary related to vacuuming, funny smells, plumbing, alarms, multi-line phone systems and a bunch of other stuff that once i walk out the door to work i never use.