My trip just potentially got 1000 times better. When I was about 8 a family moved in down the street from us. They were from Israel. The dad was a university professor and was coming to the US for 2 years to teach at a University here. It was some sort of professor exchange type thing I think. Well I became very good friends with their son. We were best friends right away and spend a ton of time together. The whole family was really nice and when they left to go back to Israel it was very difficult for me. It was so hard to get to know someone and become such good friends, but only have it last a few years. Being a 10 year old boy I was not very into writing letters or anything like that and since the internet did not yet exist we did not have email or IM or anything like that so we ended up losing touch. A few years back I decided to try to find him. I asked my parents and they had an email address, but when I tried it the email bounced back as undeliverable. I figured I would not be able to ever track them down. Well this past week I decided to try checking facebook on the off chance that Nadi had an account, but no such luck. I was telling my mom that I checked, but did not find him. She told me she looked too, but only saw one person named Nadav. Wait a second mom, his name was Nadi, not Nadav. Little did I know that she was right and Nadi was just a nickname. That was all I needed. I wrote to the one person on Facebook with that name and sure enough it is him!
We are trying to make plans to see each other while I am there. I am very excited, but nervous at the same time. I used to be so against Facebook, but now I am the biggest fan because without it I may have never found my long lost friend.