After 5 months of intensive Ulpan, a beautiful summer filled with new friends, new memories and much more I was ready to take a step towards my next challenge; setting up real life in the city itself, Tel Aviv. There really aren't enough hours in the day to begin to explain my aliyah experience over the past 5 months. Honestly, it felt lke a long surreal holiday intertwined with school. Learning hebrew is by far so much harder than I ever thought it would be. I ...

Today was the day I made the biggest change in my life. Not travelling the world, not packing up and travelling alone, but actually moving my life to a country, a place where really I knew nothing about apart from my heritage, my love, my need to be in a place that really makes me feel at home; the land of the Jewish people, Israel. I never really was one for stable decisions in the eyes of my parents, however, this was the one real and promising decision I had ...