The Last Week

It's the last week, and I'm pretty sad about it. I knew it would fly by, and it did. We only have four more days until we go home. It's too much to handle for me! I try not to think about it.

We finished finals yesterday. What a relief it was to get those off my chest! Classes are OVER and all we need to do now is go into the city! It feels good to not have to worry about anything. It's also really weird. I'm conditioned to always have SOMETHING to do, and now that I don't have anything I'm at a loss for things to do. It's so much easier to entertain yourself when you're procrastinating something.

We did our first of two Christmas Choir concerts yesterday. We didn't do that well, but hopefully the audience was forgiving about it. One of the students, Katie Graham, played two beautiful harp solos. She's a music major and has been seriously missing the harp, and you could see her just glow as she played it. It was a great thing to see.

After church we went to an olive tree garden just to sit and relax. Neil and Andrew both had the time of their lives playing with the Palestinian kids there. Neil loves kids that age. It's when he's in his element. He was picking them up and throwing them around and chasing them and they LOVED him. Meanwhile a few students were trying to get their quiet study time in...that didn't work so well.

Tomorrow is our last free day before we leave. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'll probably going to go to the Temple Mount, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Church of All Nations--the normal stuff. But it's definitely worth one last visit. Honestly, I feel good about what I've done here and there really isn't anything that I am in dire needs of seeing, but I do want to get out and about and just be in the city. Buy a Jerusalem bagel. Talk to the vendors. All of the stuff I love doing in Jerusalem. 

We have two last field trips to go. We're going all over Jerusalem, tracing the last week of the Savior's life. I'm looking forward to it.