Day 93

We had 3 hours of New Testament in the morning... soooo long but also really really good. At 3 when we were allowed to go out into East Jeru I went with Katie and Natalie and a couple of others to the Garden Tomb, and we just spent about an hour there. It's always such a peaceful place. I started reading Jesus the Christ, by Talmage, and I enjoyed it a lot. It is always a really neat experience to read about or talk about events in the Savior's life so close to where they actually took place. As usual, there were a lot of other Christian groups there, singing and preaching. I love all of the different kinds of groups that come in. They are from all over the world and they all have their own way of celebrating the resurrection of Christ and it makes it so fun.

Last night we went to the Western Wall again as a group, but this time me and Katie dressed up like Jews. We wore dark skirts and simple shirts and wrapped our hair in scarves. We stayed away from our own group, and tried to copy what the Jewish women were doing. We walked the way they walked, read the prayer books, and prayed like they do. It was really really cool because it made it such a different experience from the last time we went to the Wall. A lot of people would say things to us in Hebrew, and we were treated like we were one of them instead of tourists. They were a lot more courteous than they can sometimes be when they know you're just another American there to just check it out. It was such a blast.