Shalom Y'all!

I am in Israel for 10 months, or rather 9 months now that I've been here for over a full month. Anyways, if there are people interested in getting a sneak peak at my life and times in the holy land, than this is your place. I know what some of you are thinking, Holy Shit, Ben's in Israel!, that's what this blog is for. For those not in the know, I am on a program called OTZMA and it means strength in Heb, which is pretty badass, one of the main reasons if not THE reason why I chose this program.

Back to the juicy stuff, for the next 2 months I'll be going to the beach every day like I have for the first month in a town called Ashkelon, which is conveniently located just north of Gaza (it's true, we heard some very suspicious noises the other day on the beach!). I will also dab in some Hebrew (Ulpan) and maybe do some volunteering or play bball with some little kids and call it volunteering. After that I move on, but rather than focus on the future, let's recap the past!

I promise this blog won't be a boring daily recap, but maybe it's important to have one quickie of what I've done so far:

• Got to Israel and did orientation for a week. I got to tell everyone that I went to Israel when I was a year old and haven't been back until now, that I'm from New York, and that I went to Indiana University about 15 times. We also did some hikes.
• Got to Ashkelon and started going to the beach. We also have done some Ulpan.

There are obviously more details but that'd be annoying for me to write and for you to read.

More to come (if I feel like it) so stay tuned.

Shalom!

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