Gobble.

Well friends,

In less than an hour and a half, I will be leaving the city of Jerusalem and heading to....

TURKEY!

So, for the next week, don't expect any blog posts (but I might sneak a couple in) because I will be too busy waking up at 6 and site-seeing all day long.

Traveling in our giant group is going to be.... interesting.

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I suppose that I should write a quick update about the recent happenings.

This past week, we haven't really done that much (hence the lack of an exciting blog update) but we went to classes and went to class. That's kinda all we do when we're not our on field trips.

We've also been spending a lot of time in the library writing papers and doing homework (and sometimes not being very productive....) but yesterday, we finally escaped!

Nicole, Charlotte, Eliza and I all headed to the Old City. We went to the Jewish Quarter (again) because we wanted to get some Hallah (Sabbath Bread which is DELICIOUS). But we stopped at the Pools of Bethesda first (where they let us in for free!) which was super cool. And we just explored some other churches and stuff that we walked past. And we happened upon the Stations of the Cross walk with a whole bunch of monks. That was pretty cool.

Once we ditched that after station 9, we headed to the Jewish Quarter but by this time, everything was closed because it was so close to sundown (aka Sabbath). So we just meandered around a little bit and then walked home leisurely from Dung Gate.

It was a nice little adventure.

And the Jewish Quarter is basically the only place that we've ever gone... haha that will change, after Turkey!

Yesterday we had church and then we just rested and hung around for the day. We had a fireside last night with Brother Skinner (our Associate Director of Academics) and it was AMAZING. Usually I don't really like firesides that much but it was SO good. :) And then we had a really good/fun choir practice. It's amazing singing Christmas songs while looking out the windows and seeing Jerusalem. :)

Good week! And now onto Turkey!

Bon vogage!