Africa here I come!

Literally. Early Sunday morning we will all make our way to EGYPT!! It's going to be a HOT experience but I think we're all excited despite the fact that we think we might all die haha. I'm glad I'm not here summer term...

This week has been good with lots of things as always.

First I got to see a couple pictures of my nieces. They are such cute babies!!

Sabrina on the left, Whitney on the right :) :) :) PRECIOUS

Tuesday I had my 1st schwarma and it was so yummy! I personally think I like it better than falafel, but I'll have to have lots more of each to really determine my opinion. Went into the city to start looking for some more stuff for Egypt but didn't really get anything. Well, I did get some pretzels :) I'm quite excited for those I love pretzels!

Wednesday we had class and then I went into the city and bought stuff! I spent more than I was planning but I hadn't bought anything yet so I felt justified haha. I love everything I bought too so it's all good! There is this one shop owner who all the JC students love and I met him for the first time that day. His name is Shaban and he loves the Mormon kids because we buy lots of stuff from him. And he gives great prices so that's why we do!! I think almost every single girl in our group has Jeanie pants now, and I got a pair as well they are so comfy!

Yesterday we went on another field trip, for 8 hours, and we went to a National Park called Neot Kudumin. It's a nature reserve pretty much where they've restored plant life and such from Biblical times. It was very pretty there and much bigger than I expected it to be! We got to do lots of fun things:

Pulling water from the cistern. Apparently this was the way to get the men back in the day! I should do more things like this so I can get one! :)

We got to be shepherds. It was an experience haha.

This is a different group after their success!

We got some hyssop and ground it into spice. Using very legit equipment as you can see.

This is a 200 year old Torah scroll. We saw a scribe do some writing and they explained the kosher process of how they make the leather, the ink, and then how they do the actual writing. It takes about a year to write the whole Torah.

An Egyptian water wheel!! In Israel...hahaha

A sukkot. They are the little homes that people would build when they would go listen to the prophets speak. Like with King Benjamin! This sukkot is HUGE

It was an eventful few days but pretty good.

Today, we had more class and then some free time. We aren't allowed to go to East Jerusalem until after 3 on Fridays, and West Jerusalem today was pretty much shut down because of Yom Kippur tomorrow. I'll write more about what I did later. Have a great day!