My Trip To Israel

This winter on December 30th 2009, one day before new years I left for the Newark airport bright and early in the morning. My purpose was to meet up with Jewish 18 - 22 year olds who has also signed up for the 09 - 10 winter trip. The group was called "Taglit Birthright Israel" (http://www.facebook.com/TaglitBirthrightIsrael). We were all different people before and after the trip. Prior to the airport we all got a call from the Rabbi, he interviewed all of us over the phone one by one.
My experience signing up was a hassle and wasn't easy for me or my family to go through. I had to have spend at least 5 different phone conversations and 10 e mails back and forth from the group I signed up with. The toughest part was scanning all the pages of my passport and the interview with one of the representatives (Not the rabbi) which seemed like it took forever. I had mentioned to them that I lived in Israel for a year, they were unclear about my statement so I kept getting questions. Things like that put a bar in front of my trip and made a delay.
Once at the airport I mingled with one or two people that I thought were cool. After we got past the gate and security check we got into a big circle and introduced ourselves further. People started to make friends and become more social. However, I was being stubborn and excluded myself because I didn't think anyone would be interesting and I was very shy and anxious at the time, it was not easy.
So we got onto the plane and I was lucky enough to sit next to Dustin and Claudia who were two perfect people that I really enjoyed being with. One thing about that plane was that many of the TV's did not work, mine didn't work either so I had nothing to look at except for the movie "The Hangover" as a third wheel to Dustin's mac computer. I lend them my audio splitters because they needed an extra place to put their headphones so that they could share. I was in flying heaven <3 Most of the flight I just sat there without my glasses out and trying to zone out. During the middle of the flight the air around my seat was getting thin and I was getting a headache because of the lack of clean oxygen and claustrophobia. Luckily on this flight I had many peers to talk to and observe by walking by and giving them eye contact, in addition to that there was no obnoxiously loud crying from babies and the food was pretty good too. I had enough food and water to last me the whole flight. I got an isle seat but unfortunately I was right in front of the wing so I could not watch from the window which was three seats away. My vision was going blurrier and bad anyway so I just took my glasses off and felt the engine roar.
As we were landing I went to a window on the side of the plane to look over but all I could see were while clouds because we were still high in the air. When we landed EVERYONE had their blackberry's iphones and other fancy cell phones. They got text messages saying "welcome to Israel". I was surrounded by girls :D. So we got to the airport, went to get our passports stamped, went through customs and went to baggage claim to get our suitcases. I grabbed a free cart and put my heavy carry-ons on top because they were heavy and stopping my blood flow. There were many people there so it took a while to get a spot and to get my one suitcase. The belt went around many many times until I spotted my suitcase.

Part Two In The Next Blog To Keep This Short.