Helloooooo Israel

Lets recap. Tuesday I left home and spent the night at a friend close to the airport. Fun times. LOVED her family, brother mother cousins, the whole deal. That ngiht we hung out and met up with a mutual friend to say goodbye.
The ariport was cool. I had drank come coffee earlier to be alert but it just make like every molecule in my body like zap up and I was uncomfortably wired and nauseous. Unfortunately, security thought I was on a birthright trip and put me in the group line. NOT cool. So anyway, Im standing there with my suitcases that weigh way to much and ended up talking with the woman who was behind me and we ended up being fast friends cus we ahve friendsvin common. uber cool. So anywya, we end up complaining to security that were no on BR and get bumped to the express lane. after check in and baggage weighing I was still coffee buzzing so I bought some water but had to down the entire bottle because the security check was right there. Oh, that was a minor issue.
Going through they hadnt told me to remove m laptop so I had to go through twice, take off my shoes (not the norm here) and then finally claim all my carryon stuff, which, by the way, was over the limit. so then i bump into a guy from school and then ind my new friend Shelley as well. yays.
Boarding was okay and at fist i thought i was gonna be in an aisle by myself, ha. wishful thinking. ending up sitting with two very nice survivors and in front of a nice quiet ultraorthodox family.
movies were okay, nothing too exciting but I couldnt get a single wink of sleep. oh, and we had awhole lot of urbulance which wasnt the best but we all dealt.
Arriving was also a breeze because of my student visa but while helping an old couple get their bags off the rack I by mistake lightly bumped this one woman and she wasnt too happy and bad mouthed my in hebrew to her hubby. she didnt think i uderstood. I couldnt decide whether to confront her or not but decided that I didnt want to ruin my first day with her negativity.
Anywho, took the cab into town with shelley and her daughter because they live only a few bocks from here and as they departed the cab anotehr woman was there and she is actually from my home town. Im telling you, we're secretely taking over the world.
the rest of the day I spent with my grandmother and family. I was at her assited living and then my uncle and aunts place and just tried to get adjusted to the time zone. I somehow lost 18 hours. its kinda awesome.
okay, enough for now, more later, missing everyone!