So I started out the day by rolling out of bed to go to
breakfast after sleeping through the night for the first time since we got
here! I came back and got ready to go to the classroom for a mysterious
meeting. When we got there, baklava was on the table. It was Amy’s birthday! We
had such fun celebrating and watching her give baklava to a guy (IBEX tradition).
After that I headed to the library where I spent most of my
day getting homework and reading done for class.
I had Hebrew class today even though I’m not enrolled in
Hebrew. For my Regional Studies class we have to read maps in Hebrew so the
whole class is learning the Hebrew alphabet. It is so much fun, and so hard. We
have a quiz on Friday, so I’m like going over the alphabet in my head all the
time.
After dinner I returned to the library and then it was
announced that we were going over to the Elvis Inn for Amy’s birthday! Sadly,
when we went it was closed but there was an Elvis ice cream store in the same
parking lot so we ate ice cream there. It was so fun to just hang out with
everyone.
When we came back, I played piano and sang with Lauren and
Jonny in the Miklat. So much fun! I’m still eating the grapes that I was eating
yesterday as I write this blog. Today was a chill day but I’m still quite
tired. I’m ready for a pretty full day of classes tomorrow which is when 2 of
my classes will start [one of them being a 4 hour class period with lunch to
split it up]. It isn’t as hard to study here as I originally thought it would
be and the library is becoming the best place ever.
Random fact: I got a knot(in my muscle) on my ankle today. Honestly
didn’t know you could get a knot there. Anyway, it was slightly swollen earlier
and it is going down but I am going to get ice on it tomorrow. Thankfully I can
barely feel it so it’s just a bit of a bother rather than a painful spot.
Well that concludes today. The verse I liked today was one
that I read in one of my books. It is a verse in which God is talking to the
Israelites. It just shows His care for the land and for His people. He knew
what He was doing and I’m so thankful to be in this land and to be able to
study it.
It is Deuteronomy 11:10-12 which says “For the land that you
are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which
you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of
vegetables. But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills
and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, a land that the Lord
your God cares for. The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the
beginning of the year to the end of the year.”
Well as usual, Israel is awesome! More to come!
-Susan
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