JeruShannon

great statue of Constantine 10/10 would waifu matesss what even happened to me this week I couldn't tell you what. I feel like it was actually a relatively calm week? Which is to say we still did tons of stuff but compared to field trips all day erreday in Galilee, this was nothing. ALSO I CANOT EVEN HANDLE THAT TIME IS RUNNING SO SHORT. aaaaaaaaaah. on the one hand I'm excited to get to see friends and family from home once again but on the other hand JERUUUUUU I LOVE UUUUUUU. Sunday: Ein Kereem and Bells! Actually I did bells first but I'll post about that after this. WE WALKED ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. it was not my fave. but we explored this cute town outside Jerusalem called Ein Kereem where John the Baptist was born and checked out some churches there! OK BUT ALSO we went to this giant hospital that I am NoT even kidding straight up HAD A SHOPPING MALL INSIDE IT. a shopping mall to shop at. inside. a hospital. great floor all the Romanian! We a

HOO BOY THIS ONE WILL PROBABLY BE A MESS. There are so many things we did in Galilee and I don't know whether I will be able to keep them all straight but I will try valiantly to let all of you know all of what we did. This will probably be so quick and dirty First: Pre-Galilee On Sunday our free day before we left a bunch of us celebrated our friend Claire's birthday! We went to a fun restaurant, but we also went to Lifta , an abandoned Palestinian village outside West Jerusalem. It was abandoned in the Nakba  and nowadays is a nature preserve. There were a bunch of kids swimming in the nastiest smallest puddle ever and we explored some of the abandoned buildings. Fun, but also sobering. GALILEE JOURNEYS DAY ONE Beit Shean a.k.a. Assassin's Creed: Decapolis Edition Our first stop on our way up to Gal was Beit Shean which is a place much like Jerash . It's where they hung Saul's body after he died. Like Jerash, it was one of the Decap