I'm done!

My finals are over, my last paper has been turned in, and life is good! I think I did well in all of my classes, so I'm feeling pretty happy about that. I did some serious shopping yesterday and will be packing up and getting ready to move into a different room tomorrow, and then leaving for Egypt on Saturday morning! We'll be there until the 8th, so only a week, but it should be good. I'm a little nervous about getting sick, because it sounds like quite a few people do. I'm just planning on not drinking, eating, or breathing the entire time we're there, and it should be fine. We'll be swimming in the Red Sea on the way down, so that should be a fun time. I won't have my computer with me, because the plugs won't work, I have no battery, and I don't want to have to deal with it. So once I get back I'll post pictures and stuff, but this will be my last blog until at least the 9th.

I have pictures from our school time in Bet Jalla finally! We went back there today, to have lunch with the principal as a sort of thank-you thing. When we got there, we found out that all the kids had been sent home because there was this huge rumor that there was going to be an earthquake--like a 7 on the Richter scale or something ridiculous like that. Apparently Jericho has had a few earthquakes and aftershocks recently, and in my last blog I mentioned the little earthquake that I completely missed... but there was definitely not an earthquake like the rumor was looking for! Apparently a lot of parents came to pull their kids out of school and it was just mass chaos. But it was nice to be able to have lunch with Miss Grace, the elementary school principal, and Dr Thomson, the high school principal who we got rides from on Tuesday mornings. We actually went over to the school secretary's house to visit for a while with all the teachers, because she had surgery on varicose veins and has been out for a few weeks. Palestinian hospitality is amazing, let me tell you. We had so much food there, and you can't say no because it's rude... and then we went to lunch after that and once again couldn't say no because Miss Grace really wanted to take us out... it was a lot. I feel like I might have eaten a buffalo. So anyway, here are the pictures.


My roommate Janell with some of the kids... this is K-3, so the youngest of the 3 kindergarten classes. These kids are 3 years old.




Me and Salim! He's my favorite, let's be honest. Isn't he a cutie? He knows one English word: Spiderman :)






Some more of the kids...






This little guy is going to be a heartbreaker some day...






Janell again...



Lots of love to everyone! I can hardly believe I've already been gone for a semester... but I'm only through 3 months out of 8, so I'm not feeling too bad. Everyone here is getting sad about leaving, but I get to stay for a whole nother semester. That's terrible English, but I don't care at all. Probably the biggest problem I will have with being here another semester is the food. We get a lot of riceandslop, which is exactly what it sounds like... we get really good soup sometimes, but tonight we're getting beef goulash. No fun. But I think I might go out for some hot drinkies after supper at a really cute place in the New City. We'll see. Lots going on over here! I hope everyone back home is doing well, love you!