AmAZiNg!

Ok so I came to the realization that if I post only once a week, the post would be about a mile long because there is so much to write about.

So I am going to be posting more often. That way I can go into more detail without having one post take about an hour to get through, which no one but probably my family (and that is stretching it) would read. And if no one reads it at least I will have something to look back on just in case my computer dies and my journal get ruined.

Also hopefully I will be able to post some pictures soon because I know that blogs are honestly way more fun to look at when there is something to actually look at.

Well moving on

I will start with the beginning and go from there, so the first few will be from a few days ago.

August 30 2012

The city is amazing. We went on a tour after breakfast and it was as if we went back in time (at least that is the feeling of East Jerusalem). It is a pity that East Jerusalem has trash everywhere. Anyway, we went into the Old City, which was way cool. It has these narrow roads with just shop after shop of just everything you can think of; bread, clothes, sweets, jewelry etc. It has an interesting feel to it that I just can't explain very well. It is like a street in disneyland or a movie almost, except it is their everyday life. There is so much influence from all sides of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. It is crazy! After we got the quick run down of the Old City, we came out of Joppa Gate and went onto a sort of high (sp?) street in West Jerusalem. West Jerusalem feels closer to how Europe felt. A little more modern, cleaner and you don't feel quite as out of places as you do East Jerusalem. We went and got ice cream, which was pretty good. Then we learned some more history and took a bus back to the center and this was all before 12:00pm. We then had some free time and some more orientations which took up most of the rest of the day. So the rest of the day is kind of boring to write about. I will say this though, jet lag is of the devil!