Monday, July 5, 2010

Today is the day!

Today is the big day! I am excited but also sad to leave behind this awesome country and my beautiful girlfriend. Watching the fireworks on the beautiful beaches of the Southern California coast with my best friend while having my last Mexican food for a year was a perfect way to say goodbye to America. I'm off to London tomorrow and will try to post an update on whatever crazy shananagans I'll have gotten myself into there when I arrive (hopefully, assuming I can navigate the Tube) to Israel. Goodbye USA, hello Israel (after a brief, hello and cheerio to the UK)!

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July. This is my first post and so it's mostly a test. When I was a kid I dreamed of seeing the world (as I still do), and I remember sitting in my basement in Seattle looking at a globe or reading my world almanac and imagining that someday I would live somewhere on the other side of the world and not come back to America. However, now that I have gotten to see the world I realize how truly blessed I am to live here and how millions of people around the world give up everything and everyone they have to come to this country and that I do not really want to live in another country. This upcoming year will be one of many adventures and much excitement, but now I am thinking of what I am leaving behind here and more importantly, who is not going to be with me, and it is really hard. I am reflecting on this Fourth of July on all the greatness that America has given me and that I have yet to receive from and give to this nation, as well as what I will miss and be most nostalgic for during the upcoming year. Happy 4th of July and G-d bless America.