Sorry I have been M.I.A. My new job doesn’t leave me much room for personal writing. Plus so much has happened… Like I got my Israeli Citizenship! WOO HOO!
So I will be writing another blog to update everyone on what’s been happening but I wanted to let you know that I got a taste of Israeli bureaucracy today when I was informed for the first time that one office that I already met with was supposed to give me a document in order to be seen by another office in order for the first office to process my benefits. Did you get all that? Yeah… I almost didn’t either. But I’m nothing if not thorough so I’m off to the Misrad HaPanim (the government and citizenship office, like the DMV) to get my Passport entries and exits so I can be seen next Sunday by the Misrad HaKlitah (new immigrant office) to get some information on my benefits, be processed for those benefits and get another paper that I have to take to my bank, the post office (to sign up for healthcare oddly enough), and several other places.
Whew…. Being a new citizen is a full time job all on its own. I hope my other jobs don’t fire me. Soooo much on my head at the moment. Not to mention that I have family in town AND my friend from Tel Aviv came to stay with me at the worst possible time for a week long vacation in which I was the personal tour guide.
This Aliyah thing is harder than they make it sound in the brochure.
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