Jeru fun

I love Jerusalem! It's so awesome here, and I can't believe how quickly the time is going! It's almost getting sad that I'll be leaving my good friends in just a matter of weeks! We're staying really busy with field trips and time in the city. On Sunday we have 2 finals, which wrap up the bulk of our classes, so now we only have New Testament and our Ancient Near Eastern Studies class. It's a wonderful life with only 6 credits! But we fill the time with field trips from here on out. New Testament is already amazing. It's just so great that we can heavily focus on it and spend hours a day studying 4 chapters in Matthew. I'm learning so much and loving the New Testament and our Savior more each day.

A couple of weeks ago, a small group of us spent the day in West Jerusalem, which is the Jewish side; the Eastern part, where the center is, is Palestinian. We went to the Islamic Art Musem, got lunch at our favorite schwarma stand on Ben Yehuda street, went to the ultra-orthodox quarter of Me'a Sherim, and here we are at the Great Synagogue.


So it's getting colder here, and we all just want to wear sweats everyday because it's cold outside as well as inside the building. When Lauren and I were at West Jerusalem, we bought these cute slipper/sock things which keep us warm all day. We love them! Here's Lauren, Amie, and me showing them off! (And, yes, of course, I was the one who planned the pose for this picture...they're such good sports to go along with my ideas...)