First impressions - Ariel Creditor

April 3-4, 2016

By Ariel Creditor

We arrived at the airport and checked in our bags. WOW! This is really

happening. We are going to Israel! This is the first year that the 8th

graders will be going on a 14-hour direct flight from SFO to Tel Aviv.

At first we thought that the plane ride would be a terribly boring

experience. But in the end, it was one of the most bonding

experiences in the trip so far. We watched movies together,

competed in trivia games with the mysterious Ben (who some still

claim was secretly Mr. Jackson, or actually just some guy named Ben

playing trivia with us), and all in all just had a great time. When we

arrived in Israel, it was like a dream; it was very exciting, but we

were also exhausted. We walked out, got our luggage, and went

outside to meet our guide Schlomzion and our guard Sapir then we ate

at pizza hut, which was kosher and drank soda. Shoshana Fendel joined

us when we got on the bus. An hour and a half later we arrived at our

beautiful hostel and fell asleep while other Israeli school groups made

lots of noise running around the hostel!