Arrival

I am here!

My flight left an hour late, but we took off at 10 pm EST and landed at 3:30 pm in Tel Aviv. I got my bags and grabbed a taxi (Mom, brilliant idea about giving me some shekels ahead of time!). I got to the Weizmann Institute gate at around 4:30, at which point I was supposed to call Greta for information as to getting in. After a few minutes, during which the cab driver got kind of pissed and I told him to leave, we located a packet with a key in it, and one of the gate people helped me get my bags to my room.

After changing I went on what turned out to be a very long walk through Rehovot. I found a supermarket, a bunch of shops, and eventually the mall, where I got toilet paper, soap, some paper to write on, and an adapter for the outlet. I decided to take an alternate route back to Weizmann, which resulted in a lovely but longer than expected tour of the residential part of town.

After the miracle that was me reaching the gate once again, I returned to my room and plopped down my stuff, then went to the kitchen, where a bunch of other kids were. They were all American, and all but one was in the same program as me. One even goes to Penn, and just finished her sophomore year!

The rest of the night was spent in chatting, setting up my internet and making this lovely blog post. I will put more pictures on flickr if the above does not satisfy you. Hope you enjoyed reading this!