Monday Outing

Pictures from Monday's outing:

The Dome of the Rock by the Western Wall
- this entire area is the muslim quarter of the Old City



We were walking along the wall, the city wall around Jerusalem, when the muslim call to prayer started going and went on for about three or four minutes. The call is played through these loud speakers so that is spreads throughout the entire city. If i am correct, these speakers also double as air raid sirens, but haven't been used for that in quite a long time. :)



Me, Benia, and Jess - Ben is taking the picture; it was the four of us hanging out all day in the city


Benia and Jess hanging out on the city wall. From this wall you can almost see our school if look just beyond the wall in the distance. This is only a few minute walk from our school. How awesome is that?!



I wasn't content to just look at the wall, i had to climb it and look over the edge



Ben, who took somewhere around fifty billion pictures on monday




This is Benial playing soldier on the wall. He's an MK, so we let it slide



Until he got arrested by the Israeli military.... ok, he wasn't arrested. they're actually pretty neat guys we met on the wall and asked if we could get their picture. they were happy to, and of course posed as tough soldiers when we took the picture. the rest of the time they were smiling and talking :)



Then we met George in some road in the Old City; we were a little lost. George told us he was a believer, so we'll likely be back again sometime to talk with him some more.
Kevin, i thought you might like this: he lives on the Via Dolorosa.

Welcome to Israel

........My First Sunset from Mount Zion........
This is our third day here in Israel, though it feels like we've been here weeks. I have actually lost track of time so much that I caught myself going to call my mom twice in the same day, thinking it was a few days later and about time to give her a call. The city is incredible! My school sits right on top of Mount Zion overlooking the valley of Hinnom - aka. gehinna, Hell. In the brief time we've been here I've spent over fifteen hours hiking around the city! Naturally one would think Ben and I would have no problem falling asleep at night, but the past three nights have been late nights for us due to the excessive amount of topics we've been talking about :) Life is good. It's also a bit overwhelming since we're living in one of the most important cities in the Bible, but I love being here.

Here are a few more pictures from the past few days:


........ JUC- my dorm building ........
we live in a castle, how crazy is that?



........The Holy Sepulchre - the stone of anointment........

- this stone was supposedly the stone Jesuswas laid on for His burial preparation.
people kiss it so receive blessing from God. I kissed it too... just not for the blessing



........Our field study through the old city of Jerusalem........




........ I took this picture of a picture of Jerusalem ........

My school is the small building in the bottom. The top is old Jerusalem.