We love finals and our amazing teachers!

Okay Blogger Fans,

I'm sorry that I haven't finished my blog for Egypt, but we have been literally bombarded (thats for you, randa) with finals and readings for classes. Its quite ridiculous what we are required to read for these two 1 credit classes we have on Judaism and Islam. They are way interesting for sure! but with our classes that have more credit weight and then field trips, the recovering from Egypt, the sleep, the wanting to go and spend time in Jerusalem...it makes it really hard to want to read hundreds of pages of reading. 

Anyway, the story of my blog today is on our teacher th

at we have. I'll save the best (Craig ostler, my uncle) for last.

So, today we had our final for our J

udaism CLass. It was probably the most ridiculous test I have EVER taken. We all pretty much failed it. yah. thats about it. The lecture for that class is awesome! organized, interesting (most of the time), and applicable to our other classes, but this test had 30 questions and some of th

em were from class and some were from the reading, but he chose questions that were so random and little from the reading. It was awful

 and we all failed. SO we'll see what the curve will be. But the picture is of our teacher Ophir Yarden. He is a jew, he has a skin condition and lost all his hair and so its hard for him to hold his Kippa (the little hat the jewish men wear), he has like a suede kippa and it 

supposedly stays better.

After the Judaism final we had about an hour to study for our Islam/Palestinian Final. That was insane. I couldn't focus as we were trying to study for it and in the end I was just like, Okay! enough! and I went and took it. It was so much better than the Judaism test! it was actually things we had talked about in class AND  it proved that we actually learned something.  We'll see how it goes, because I did bomb one question. 

Adnan lives in Bethlehem but he studied at the University of Michigan and then at Harvard. He was really objective in his t

eaching and I really liked his classes to a certain extent, but the day we got back from egypt and he was talking about the Sykes-Picot Agreement I completely didn't understand at all what the heck he was talking about! anyway. It all turned out 

okay. we'll see what our grades will be. 

I wanted to put a video of Craig, our religion teacher, online as he acted as a Daughter of Zion and the twinkling of the toes. but it was taking too long. I'll have to YouTube it I guess. :D that'll teach him for giving us hard tests. 

THis last picture is for Miranda. Look! you're here with us! in a cute little orange tin can! WE LOVE YOU!

So. Life is good, we love jerusalem and we have a few more days before we head to the Galilee. We'll try to see if we can keep you a little more

 in touch there. We have a final in Old Testament tomorrow and a field trip to Bethlehem and the Shepherds fields. Its going to be great. Love you all!

p.s. okay so I posted this blog and then mitchell was reading it and said, "How come there aren't any pictures of me in it?"  he looked so downcast and trodden (those are words from the Old Testament, see? I'm learning something...) so I had to go and take a picture with him. we decided to take really awkward pictures like the ones of Me with my teachers where its all awkward and we cant touch. so here's mitchell and me in our awkwardness. enjoy! awkward!!