Arrival Day

The airport from the plane

Well after 18 hours, I know I said it would be like 20-something, on the plane and waiting I have successfully made it to Jerusalem, Israel. It was 65f today and very beautiful, the landscape is a lot like Italy's if you know what that looks like. The nights are cool but the adrenaline still after the flight kept me warm walking through the streets. Oh, and today and last night I met a group of North Carolinian from the Methodist Church there taking a week-long visit of the Holy Land. Also, I sat next to two Jews, one a Mexican-Israeli Secular Jew and other and Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn. Both of their names are Moshin which is Hebrew for Moses, which from what they said is very popular Hebrew name, like Jacob is in America.
After I arrived at Tel Aviv and got on the sherut(taxi shuttle) I sat next a guy from the UK and we started to talk and we found out we were both heading to the the same hostel. So tonight we hung out and walked around the city and then went to the bar at the hostel where we met a Canadian born again Christian who has been to Israel 10 times and also a UK college lady who is interning at the UN in Israel, along with a guy from Johannesburg, South Africa who starts a tech job in Israel for 5 months.
Overall, I am really excited to learn about the old land and its people. The Canadian explained to me that he went to most of the sites the Jesus went to today and at the same time he read the scripture tying it back to the Word. Its' going to be unreal and an huge eye-opener for sure.

So tomorrow I will be heading to JUCin the morning and getting ready for my adventure.

Things to remember:
Prayers for my safety and for me to learn as a person of global world, but more importantly for me to grow deeper in Christ through the settings around me.