Blogs from Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel, Middle East - page 49

Here are some picture updates from the last blog that i posted and things that have happened in the last couple of weeks! ... read more

I am going to be so happy when i can put another location other than Jerusalem. I love the city and there is still so much to see, but i am ready to see the rest of the country as well. But for now, i am still blogging about Jerusalem because this is where we went on wednesday as class. This time however, it was for a New Testament walk through the city. We left on tuesday night and stayed in the city again. But in a different hotel this time...not the gloria. sad. It was called the Knight Palace or something like that. I really enjoy the over night trips because we are able to get away from the Moshav and stay somewhere else. What i dont like is the rain. it poured on and ... read more

This weekend was a hard and busy one for me. I am actually glad that it is the week and normal classes are back in session. The normal routine of classes during the week gives me a break from the long and tiring trips which we take over the weekend and on wednesdays when no classes are in session. This weekend we went to Jerusalem again and stayed the night in the old city at the gloria hotel, right inside Jaffa Gate, in the christian quarter; which if you know anything about the old city, doesnt mean the inhabitants are christians...they are mostly all muslim, actually. anyway, we left for the old city after church, which is on saturdays mornings in the new city of Jerusalem. The service was in hebrew, then translated into english ... read more

Yesterday was the first official day of classes and our first feild trip into the old city of Jerusalem. We had class at 8am from 10am and then got on the bus to travel to the old city, which is only about a 30-35 minute drive from the Moshav. The first thing which is visible from the bus were the city walls, which kind of reminded me of the Great Wall of China in some weird sense. The old city is where the Dome of the Rock is located, The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Mount of Olives , and the wailing wall and many other sites as well. Non-Muslims are not allowed inside the Dome of the Rock, and today we didnt even walk near it on our walk through Jerusalem. We first stopped ... read more

Tonite I laughed so hard, I got a crik in my back. I also started coughing, but as I have bronchitis, that doesn't neccessarily mean much. Tonite we remembered all the fun times we've had this semester. We remembered our crazy teachers, our hard-core tiyullim, our inside-jokes. We shared our talents. Tonite I cried. Not much. A little watery eyes. A solitary tear or two making its way down my cheek. We remembered how much we will miss eachother. We remembered that in a few hours, we would no longer be living together, learning together, growing together......being together. This trip has affected me in ways that I can't truly explain. It's more of a feeling. The knowledge that I've changed.....that I'm different. I'm a better person. I'm a happier person. I'm a more knowledgable person, though ... read more