Thursday, July 25, 2013

Lots of landmarks...

Today we went to The Garden Tomb, one of the possible sights of Jesus tomb. There is a skull naturally carved into the rock right next to the garden, which was really cool. As I write, there are fireworks and celebrations going on, because everybody is celebrating their school. If you thought your highschool was hard, over here they have to test on all four years of highschool. Over thirty two hours of testing. If you get sixty or below, you basically have a horrible life. The only job you can get is as a teacher so all the teachers are basically mad and depressed people. The highest score was 98.9 percent. Hour do I know? They publish all the scores in the newspaper, radio, and television. We saw a fight between students in the street, today, too. (I assume they were students) Anyways, after the tomb, we walked along the street, through a bazaar sort of thing. They had all sorts of things, and we got some leechie fruit s, which were delicious. We then found a shop to get some bread and cheese, (we aren't committed to eating the meat, yet...) After that, we stopped at the Jerusalem prayer center, which was a really cool experience. They had all sorts of things to help with prayer. We drove home after that. I actually didn't take my tablet with me, so I don't have a path or any pictures. One of the cool things about this part of Israel is that it is so hilly, which makes for some fun driving, even in a minivan. :-D There's actually a road that is curvy and hilly, marked with black and white striped curb. It looks like it's a race track. Or give day club went great, with another kid coming today. Here's a picture.


After club, we heard a amazing testimony, from a man who was (and is) hunted by Hamas. He said he got his friends to get their guns and escort him to where he needed to go, because there were people right outside waiting to kill him. Not long after that, we hunted it the best shawarma place, and had some. Delicious! We also found a awesome grocery market that had all sorts of american stuff. Now it'll be impossible to go to sleep with all this partying going around. Usually the packs of wild dogs aren't too much...

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