The next few months were nothing like what we had imagined when dreaming about our new life in Israel.
The reality of living in this land hit hard. My sister and I stayed with my grandmother at the immigrant absorption center so that my parents could go out and build us a life, having barely any money and not knowing the language. This was
not the modern, spotless, organized, or perfect land of their dreams, but looked and felt more like a wilderness.
After a miserable experience looking for an apartment in the South of Israel where we had some distant relatives, my parents saw an ad about affordable houses in the North by the beautiful Sea of Galilee, where we were told there may be job opportunities for new immigrants. Nothing could have sounded better at the time, and we found ourselves living by the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where we live to this day.
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