My Journey

Hello, my loves. I'm sure no one is left reading this, as I haven't written in two months and wasn't really good about writing before that, but I wanted to make sure I at least signed off before I left Israel, and maybe filled you in on the things I would have written about, had I been in the business of writing.

On June 1, I fly from Tel Aviv to London and on June 15, I fly from Dublin to Philadelphia, which means that I have less than a week before I leave Israel and less than a month before I return home (with a sweet vacation in between). A lot of my friends have already left and I moved out of my apartment on May 15, which makes this week feel a lot like high school during that last week, when we had already finished finals but still had to show up everyday. That feeling--which made everything seem kind of surreal--makes it that much harder to process what now feels like the unprocessable (aka everything that I've done and experienced this year). That, and the lack of sleep--I think nerves and excitement about returning home have been keeping me up at night. Anyway, I'm hoping time and home will help me figure out what this year has been all about.

Here are a few things that the last two months of been all about:

Soon after I returned from the States, I participated in life-changing programs in Hevron and Bethlehem.
I experienced the joy and insanity of Passover in the Holy Land.
I witnessed and tried to comprehend Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, Memorial Day, and Independence Day.
I turned 25.
I had an adventure traveling to Cairo and the Pyramids.
Now, I'm watching all my friends go home and prepare for whatever the next step is, even though I suspect (based on my experience in the States in March) that we're all totally unprepared for the fact that going home will be the hard part.

I'll try to expand on some of these in the next couple of days, weeks, and months, but I may not. For what it's worth, it's definitely been a journey.



P.S. When I return I'll be moving back to Philly, and I have no idea what I'll be doing there.