A Lovely Time

Diana cutting Samson's hair: Courtney
Samson: Jeff Perry
Samson's Hair: Rivkah
Samson looks like a rockstar!

We went to Shephlah for our Monday field trip and got so see a lot of neat places. We spent some time in the valley where Samson lived and even reenacted the story! I got to play the role of "Samson's Hair". Best part ever played probably. :) We saw the valley of Elah where David killed Goliath with his sling shot skills. In that area we learned how to throw our own stones with sling shots. It's harder than it looks!    David must have had lots of practice. We saw some giant bell caves as well. We sang a bunch of hymns and enjoyed the thick acoustics. Then everyone made me sing "O Mio Babbino" AGAIN -- I still don't know the words. I tried to get out of it by maybe singing a hymn instead, but they said no. They wanted opera! Maybe I should learn my lesson and learn the words to that song sometime.

Courtney, Leslie, Natalie, and me with a view of Elah

It's that time of year...the harvesting of the olives! There were so many olives to pick. Mary (my roommate from Canada) and I had a pretty efficient system going. It was so windy which made it hard to keep our bags from flying all over the place and trying to put olives in there one by one. We decided that we would get more done and much quicker if I stood on a chair picking the olives with Mary below me holding the bag wide open for me to drop the olives. We had a wonderful time! Soon we will press the olives with the ancient stylistic equipment. Jerusalem is so amazing.

Mary and me harvesting the olives!

OLIVES and Koryl, Lizzy, Rachel, me, Mary

West Jerusalem during Sukkot, a Jewish holiday. Usually the
streets are packed, but it was a ghost town! It's like
this on sabbath too!

Amy, Katie, Kaitlyn, me, Allyson and the Dome of the Rock