Day 13

We had class all morning, Old Testament and the Modern Near Eastern class from our Israeli professor. After lunch I went with some people down to a 24-hour mart to pick up some food for Egypt, since apparently we can eat approximately 2% of the food there. It wasn't too far away, but getting there involved walking down the side of the freeway, hopping a fence, getting yelled at by a bunch of kids and their chickens, then walking on a dirt trail trying to find the right paved road that meets up with the store. The way back was mostly the same, except we couldn't find the short fence so we ended up jumping off a wall on the side of the freeway. We ran all the way back to make it to Hebrew class, where we learned a few more letters and practiced writing all of the ones we have learned so far. We had our Palestinian MNE class after Hebrew. It is only the second time we've had the class, but I think it will be interesting.

For dinner, me and my roommate Jessie made a funfetti cake that we found at the grocery store for our friend Lance's birthday. After dinner I spent most of the night trying to catch up on all of the reading for this week. Tomorrow is Jerusalem Day, so we want to spend most of the day after classes in the city watching the parades and doing the rest of the shopping for Egypt!