A Different Sort of Interview

Today, after months of thought and hours of paperwork (all online thankfully - so paperlesswork, perhaps?) I had my official 'aliya interview' at the Jewish Agency's headquarters in Jerusalem. My meeting with Daniel Rosenfeld, a nice, laid-back aliya interviewer, turned out to be humor-filled and pretty low-key.

I was nervous to hear back from Daniel - my anticipated aliya date, flight and ulpan (an intensive Hebrew immersion program) was all in flux until I was officially approved.

I received a phone call later this afternoon with the good news of my approval to move to Israel - quite an inspirational conversation - and started queuing everything else in place.

Soo that India trip..

Yes, it was fascinating, but it was also consuming in many ways: long days, dramatic experiences of both mind and stomach and a heightened level of fascination that permitted, evidently, just two or so stretched nights chronicling the adventures.

So the rest of the three weeks was pretty awesome.

(written some time later)