i made an oopsie

t'was my first major traveling error.
i was getting myself to Jeruselum from Jaffa. Took the bus to the Train station. Got a ticket to Jeruselum, got to the correct platform. A train pulls up and we all get on it, I turn to the woman next to me and say "Yarusheliem? is this going to Jeruselum?" She was smiling and nodding, but i should've realized that she was smiling and nodding even before i posed the question.
I sat down and think, 'ok if this train leaves at 1 then it's the right train'. a couple minutes later it starts pulling away from the platform and i ask the girl across from me who had just gotten off the phone "this train is going to Jeruselum yes?"
she looks up with wide eyes, smiling and shaking her head "lo"
"noOO? fuck!"
the couple across from us are very helpful and speak perfect english. They tell me to get off at the last stop in Modine and then take the bus to Jerusleum from there.
When I get off the train I can't get out of the station because it requires you to resubmit your ticket into the machine things and it keeps rejecting my ticket becuase it's for Jerulsum and not Modine. I pace back a forth a bit and finally get a coffee shop girl to let me out threw her store (really bad planning on the israeli train station). so i cross the street to the mall because the man on the train told me that the bus mall is on the other side. i'm approaching the security check and i step in gum (not even lying, this is just when i have to laugh). Security checks are a bitch with all of my luggage and this is just the first of 3 i had to go threw today.
get on the weird little bus to Jerulsem and try really hard not to fall asleep. Get off at the bus mall and get on a bus to the Malha mall which is right by the train station where my cousin Michael is meeting me.
I've stopped trying to be frugal, it's just not a possibility. I keep leaving things unzipped and dropping coins, probably lost at least 20 sheckle that way.

so now i'm in Michaels office, killing time until he gets off. it's airconditioned and the sweat is drying (TMI?). Michael is really nice and so are two of his sons that i've met so far. one is an architecture major here.

i'm suprisingly comfortable with them concidering i've never met any of them before.
now to finish my bagel and call delta (7th time today)