Jerusalem Malmrusalem: Post-Finals

Just finished finals week! Unfortunately, the post-final relaxation is not to be had. We've still got plenty of homework to fill up our spare time. However, I did reward myself by going to chick-flick night featuring, "My Best Friend's Wedding." Good show :)

Time to catch up on all the great adventures we still managed to have last week! When homework is overwhelming, its hard to justify going into the city, but I know I'll regret it come winter time if I stay in to work instead of enjoying the fabulous place I'm at.

Our field trip last Monday provided me with an experience I loved, but hopefully will never have again- SHEEP HERDING! We visited the Biblical land reserve and got to see animals, plants, bake soup and bread, just like they might have back in the biblical days.

As you can imagine, I was a natural at the shepparding business. They divided us into three group to take turns moving the sheep around. The first group had to maneuver them into a circle of rocks. The second group had to lead them in a big circle and then put them into another circle of rocks. I was in the final group. Our challenge was to separate the goats from the sheep and to put them into separate circles of rocks. I didn't even know the difference between sheep and goats. Thankfully we have some farm kids in the class and they took the reigns on this one. Amazingly, we successfully separated the sheep and goats (they were stubborn about staying in a group). It was super fun!

We get to see super cool stuff all the time. Yesterday we went to St. Peter in Gallicantu. This is traditionally the place where Peter denied Christ three times and heard the cock crow. There is also some really cool stone caves underneath the church where it is believe Christ was held before his trial in Jerusalem.

Of course after seeing the church, we had to stop for a Gold?! Magnum bar. Seriously, that's what they're called. We had the best time talking about our Gold?! ice cream :)