JeruShannon

That is correct this week we travelled to the neighboring land of Jordan and looked at so many cool things! It was also very VERRRRYYYYY hot and I sweat so much and drank so much water and still think I spent most of my time dehydrated. In Petra I seriously drank at least 3 liters within about five hours, but let's do this thing sequentially. Sunday Funday! this was before we did the Jordan thing. I went bright and early to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for Greek Orthodox mass (orrrr whatever the orthodox equivalent is I don't know I'm sorry!!!) but I got got by the incense and had to leave so I explored the church instead. It's a very cool building, and there's a LOT going on in there all the time. It is a great place to people watch. diagram of this buck wild place Also during the Greek orthodox thing in another area very nearby there were Syriac Orthodox ppl doing their ceremony too!! Like I said, a lot going on. A little while after we were abl...

TODAY WAS THE FINAL COUNTDOWN. actually that sentence makes no sense. Today is Saturday where there was no work done. however, ,,, this last week was finals. hooray. Actually they went a lot better than I could have ever hoped, but I was WWWWWREEECCCCKKKKEEDDDD by the end of it all. Also this week my body decided to fall apart but it's fine. In spite of the finals meltdown I did get out and do some fun stuff! this is St. Stephen's Basilica in East Jerusalem and possibly the most beautiful church I've visited yet in the holy land also because it's in a weird spot and you have to ring a doorbell to be let inside, there was basically no one there. the art in this basilica is so beautiful I TOOK THIS SELFIE THERE IS NO EXCUSE BUT I"M LAUGHING SO HARD that was on one outing. The next day or so I went to the Pater Noster church up near our house that has the Lord's prayer in over a hundred languages, inCLUDING uppáhalds tungumálið mitt, Íslen...