Day 1

After a long 5 hour flight to New York, and an even longer 10.5 hour flight into Tel Aviv, I finaly landed in Israel. the mother and child behind me spoke English all the way from New York and once we landed in Tel Aviv Imediatly switched to speaking Hebrew.  Some of the religious Jewish men on the flight were praying in the isles as we prapared to cross into israeli airspace.  We left the airplane to find ourselves in a nicely renovated airport with fountains, cafes and lots of glass windows.  Adam was waiting for me outside customs, we got in his car and headed to Modiin Israel.  It was only a 15 minute drive from the large city of Tel Aviv to the small town of Modiin. Modiin is a new residential town half way between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, it consists mostly of tightly packed apartment buildings, it is what i would have imagined a town in Israel to look like.  I met Adam's parents and used the 5 words in hebrew that I knew, luckly adam did all the translating for us.  We ate and ate and ate watched a little Israeli T.V. and I went to bed.  I had trouble falling asleep because every five minutes or so I could hear Boom, Boom, Boom far off in the distance.  It was quite far away, but sounded like bombs going off in the distance. I asked adam what it was and he said that we were close to the border of where the arabs live and there was always some type of conflict going on on that side of Israel.  Finaly it stoped and I went to sleep, and slept peacefuly.