pictures

so, i just thought i'd post a few pictures and make everyone jealous. you should be, by the way. this place is incredible and anyone who ever has the chance to go needs to take it!!

the picture below is the dome of the rock. if you look to the stone wall at the bottom of the picture, to the left, where one wall stops and another begins, that is the western wall, formerly known as the wailing wall.

this (sideways) picture is of some ancient rebuilt pillars, which were originally built by the romans.


and this picture is of the eastern hill on the left as taken from the western hill.

hope i have made you sufficiently jealous! for more pictures you can check out my facebook. i will try to keep you updated on everything.

i'm here

for those of you who haven't heard, i am here. i have arrived and i am safe and happy.

i love it here. everyone has questions, and i'm not sure i have answers yet, but i know i love it. i will fill you in on everything as soon as my brain has had time to digest it all. everything is happening so fast! but it's incredible, though seemingly indescribable to me at present.

love you all and miss you!

last day

so, i have one more day left home. well, two, really, if you count thursday. but i leave thursday at 1ish and so it doesnt really count, i think.

i dont know what to think about next semester. people keep asking what my expectations are, and i never know how to answer them because to be honest i dont really have any. at least none that are obvious at the moment. i'm sure once i get there i will start to realize all the things that are different than i thought they would be. but for now i am content to think of myself as open to anything, completely blank, and ready for whatever comes my way.

packing was an ordeal. i am not by nature an organized person, and i had to fit four months into a few bags, and that is no easy task. i took the whole day yesterday to figure out what i had and what i still needed. i am just about ready, i think. but then again, i have very little idea what i am getting myself into. probably i will get there and realize i've packed all the wrong things. this wont bother me too much, though, i think, except for the amount of time i spent in packing it all.

in my heart, at least, i am ready to go, ready to leave this place again. i watched a movie tonight with my parents. i never asked the name, and didnt really pay attention, but there was this one scene in an airport that got me excited. the scene itself was quite boring really, but i loved that it was in an airport. i know i will probably hate airports in a few days, but just now they speak of worlds i have yet to see, and one in particular i will be seeing very soon.

four days

i leave on thursday. today is sunday. that gives me four days.

i haven't started packing yet.

my parents are not pleased about this, but they will get over it.