taking the train to tel aviv

Although I was still a little bit tired, I decided to stay awake the entire train ride, looking out the window at the landscape that passed before me. I watched the Mediterranean crashing to my left, the mountains waxing and waning to my right as we passed out of Haifa. The city turned into countryside, exhibiting horses and goats grazing in fields. While Hayley dozed across from me, I watched Israel traveling past me while listening to my Ipod, watching places I had come from being left behind me. It truly began to hit me that I would be leaving Israel in about a week, and these places that were passing by me as I sat on this train, places I had spent some time in, may never be seen by me again. Although I was going to Tel Aviv, a very exciting thing, going to see friends, family, places I have come to love, I had to leave Motzkin and Haifa, a place I had become so comfortable with. And really, that is the problem with going someplace. No matter where you are going to, in order to get there you need to leave someplace else behind.