It's the first Day and feels like It's Been Weeks

Hey Guys!

It is 1 am in Tel Aviv (3 pm Vancouver time) and I'm about to go to bed. The flight was exhausting! 5 hours from Vancouver to Toronto, then a 4 hour stop over in Toronto (most of which was spent eating) and then an excruciating 11 hour flight to Tel Aviv. I discovered that I cannot sleep and can barely eat when I'm on a plane, but i did get to watch some good movies. The fun didn't stop there though, we didn't get to leave the airport until 10 pm Israel time  (we landed at 5 pm) because they needed to question my friend Zahida for 4 hours!!! Before we could go to baggage claim we had to have our passport stamped -  they asked us why we were here, was it our first time, our names and families background. Zee's father is Muslim which made the suspicious of us and once they discovered that we knew Palestinian's and had gone to peace camp with them they assumed we were there to create trouble and go to local protests. Zee and I were separated from our other 2 friends Omar and Ryan which was kind of alarming for a bit, and then they made us wait in a little room. An interesting thing was that a lot of Palestinians were in the room as well, and yet all of them got out before the two 17 year old Canadians! While Zee and  I waited for the interrogation (which happened three times) we played Go Fish, or "Allez Poisson" with a plethora french travelers most of whom were on a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, however there was this one young Lebanese girl from France named Crystal who was exceedingly delightful. Once we were released from interrogation we had to claim our luggage (Zee's suitcase had been broken when the policemen rifled through it!) from the Lost and Found but they had lost our hockey sticks - which we had brought for a friends palestinian league! So we had to talked to a liaison from air canada...But we still couldn't find them! It turned out that Omar had picked them up hours ago :) 

My first taste of outdoors Israel was stifling hot and humid, we took a taxi to my friends Alex's house where we are eating Pasta and reminiscing about the fabulous time we had last summer. Having an amazing time, can't believe I'm here though, and miss you.  

Pease comment I want to hear from all of you!