Yom Rishon

Hay hay haaaaayy it's your favorite blogger girl reporting from Tel Aviv, Israel. After what seemed like an endless flight and day of traveling, I have finally made it to Tel Aviv! We landed mid-day on Tuesday and headed to Ramat Aviv to check out campus. It's funny, I go to Tel Aviv University, but I'm not really sure if it's in Tel Aviv...because it's about a 20-30 minute מונית (taxi) ride to the center of the city (they definitely left that out of the program description). Any-who, on Tuesday night a couple friends and I wanted a casual night out, so we headed to Rotcha, a bar in center Tel Aviv on Rehov (street) Allenby. I was so exhausted I almost fell asleep on the table.....needless to say we came back around 1 AM Israel time, and I passed out until the next morning when my alarm went off at 8:30 AM. I figured 7 and a half hours for the first night wasn't bad, plus it sort of helped me get rid of my jetlag hangover. Yesterday, Wednesday, was the first real day of everything at Tel Aviv University. We started with a tour of the campus where I met some new people, and then we got our official TAU I.D. cards and took our Ulpan test. I opted for the choice of "has taken one semester of Hebrew in college", because even though I've taken four...I'm a bit rusty and decided a lower level was better than a higher. To my surprise, I understood everything the teacher was saying during the directions, hey mom and dad, my hebrew isn't so bad after all! Later in the day we hung out for a bit, finally got our wi-fi working and I had my first Israeli meal at this small little joint behind the mall - hummus-shuka which was hummus and shakshuka mixed together, it was delish!! After dinner, we came back, got ready to go out and went to this club called SOLO, almost every person from my program was there, it was crazy crowded, but a ton of fun. We stayed out until about 3:30 AM (for all of you who know me, I do not stay out late, so that was a new adventure for me), I came back and fell asleep until 11:30 this morning and then went to the Tel Aviv Shuk! It was fun, and gorgeous out, we also took a walk on the beach. And that's all for now, Laila Tov!