Officially a first responder in israel, arrived in tel aviv, everything is going great

I know it's been a couple of days, but I have been super super busy with learning and studying for my final.

Main updates: I passed the First Responder final for my course and can now officially work with Magen David Adom.  Yesterday  (exam day) was really stressful because we had to get up early, as usual at 7:30, and then start our practical part of the exam at 9am.  There was a lot of waiting, which I usually like for tests, but for this I wanted to just get it over with.  I finished my practical (consisted of backboarding, vitals, and CPR testing) at around 11am.  We thought we were going to start the written part of the exam at 1pm, but it wasn't as organized as we thought it was going to be.  So at around 1:30 Reut told us that the test would be coming in an hour.  So we waited, came around 2:30 and said another hour.  Then another hour. Then another and so forth.  the stress and nervousness that we felt at 9am dwindled away by 4pm and we just wanted to get it over with.  We took the test at 6:30pm.  Then had to wait until 11pm for the results.  Most of us passed and we all got our MDA shirts!

This morning, everyone was pretty exhausted from last night because some went out to Jerusalem and some hung out at Bet Yehuda and had a BBQ.  We met outside and there were 4 or 5 buses going to Tel Aviv, Haifa etc. Then we were told around 30 minutes later to get on the buses, and then I realized that I won't be seeing a lot of these people very soon.  We all became very very close over the past 9 days, we were in classes together from 8:30am until 7pm, hung out together, ate together, basically did everything together.

Getting on the bus,  a lot of things went through my mind.  What will the next part of my journey hold?  What was I going to see?  What calls would I get?  Basically a mixture of emotions, but another leg of the adventure and I am extremely excited to get started.

We got into Tel Aviv at around 1pm and were taken to our guest house, and it's actually really nice.  The rooms are like dorm rooms, but with a mini kitchen and bathroom.  A couple of us walked around to get some shwarma and then walked to the beach.  We are in the PERFECT location.  About 10 minute walk to the beach, 10 minutes to the shook, 10 minutes from some other stuff (probably).  Love it.

Alright, I have to get ready to go to the Ramat Gan station and hear when my first shift is going to be!


Yalla bye