The Beginning

The original plan was for me to meet Lior and three people from the program at the airport.  Although Hurricane Irene had other plans in store.  Everyone's flights were completely cancelled and had not been rescheduled.  Plans change quickly when a hurricane is involved.  In the end I met, Yaron, and Brian at the airport.  We had a large van drive us to our first seminar.  Although, the other people weren't able to join us yet, we had a nice slow transition into our program.

The "hotel" is very beautiful.  We are a very short walk from the beach, the amazing Mediterranean Sea!  We spent the first night getting adjusted and learning about the original plan for the seminar was... We have a classroom with two air conditioners!  Lior gave us an introduction to the year plan and then we had a nice dinner.  Over dinner we decided it would be fun for Brian to experience Tel Aviv and see the tents of protest on Rothschild.

After dinner we watched the hilarious Simpsons episode when they journey to the Holy Land.  After that we decided to watch the movie Blow.  I forgot how amazing and intense of a movie it is, brilliant acting!  After the movie we decided to have a late start the next morning to allow ourselves sometime to relax and take in this new experience.  It was a wonderful informative beginning.  I think this will become more clear once more people arrive and we are able to dive into our work.