Touchdown! I’m in Tel Aviv, in a friend of a friend-i-just-met and her husband’s humble apartment. That was a long ass way to travel. I slept a lot on the plane, and from NY to Tel Aviv was sitting next to two brothers who were heading back to Israel for the memorial service for their father, who died suddenly a month ago. Not happy times. I refrained from telling them that the surprise party we threw for my dad’s 70th birthday was awesome, which it was.
Once gathered at the airport, our group got rides into town, met up eventually at a restaurant called Little Prague, and ate and planned our first day of Ultimate Frisbee clinics tomorrow. Tomorrow will be just for Israeli peeps, a mix of adults and kids, then Thursday we get a mix of Israeli and Palestinian kids which will be sweet. Then Friday and Saturday there’s a hat tournament (mix of people with varying skills on freshly made up teams) open to everyone. There are people who flew themselves out here just to volunteer for this and play in the hat tourney. Then Sunday we’ll travel back to kids’ villages to try and keep them hooked on frisbee. It’s a great team of coaches, and seems like it will be a phenomenal event.
I’m tired and must sleep before a series of long days on top of the long days preparing for and traveling here. Saturday night will be the 100th Anniversary part of Tel Aviv, so that could be a really long one…
Thanks for checking in.
