A Lot Of Things

Last night I had a dream involving some sort of secret cult that was trying to kill me, I think, and then there were Dylan and Cole Sprouse. Google them, I'll wait. Yeah. They were my brothers. My brain is a strange place.

In other news, I officially start my internship at David Yellin College of Education on Tuesday! I'm pretty excited to be teaching(/tutoring) again, I can't lie. I'm not sure I talked about this before, but basically I'll be tutoring a bunch of students in English who want to be teachers and need to improve their English before they finish their degrees. So most of them will be several years older than me; I think one is about 40. I hope she doesn't mind I just turned 20!

Yesterday I took the bus with my friends to the German Colony in Jerusalem, which has now become this really hip, sort of expensive neighborhood with coffee shops, stores and restaurants. We had dinner there and it was delicious! I want to come back during the day and just sit in a coffee shop and read. Speaking of reading, here is my goal for this semester: to finish Lord of the Rings as well as Ivanhoe. Ambitious, I know, but I think I can do it. Why Ivanhoe, you ask? Ever since I saw Matilda at the tender age of approximately five (and every year since, I can't lie and that movie is a classic), I wanted to read Ivanhoe because of that scene with her dad where she's sitting in her room reading and then they argue about school. It was illustrated and seriously, if Matilda could read it at six, I think I can do it at twenty. I hope. But Lord of the Rings comes first because seriously, if my brother can read it, so can I!

Anyway. I promised pictures a while ago, and I intend to make good! Here are a few:


This was one of the falls we saw at Ein Gedi, one of the main sources of fresh water in Israel. It was beautiful!


Apparently I love hiking! :)


The view was breathtaking.


This is one of my favorite photos. You can almost see just how HUGE this canyon was! This is in the Negev desert, we hiked a river trail that had been carved out by flash floods. It was so intense!


For my dad: I found a sidecar!


Miriam's fork was really strangely shaped. This is her imitating it. This is here mostly because she's probably going to untag it on Facebook.


The Artist's Colony! It was so beautiful, I wish I had taken more pictures.


There was a water fountain! And it was clean for once. Israel is not very good about the putting trash in the trashcan thing.


One of my favorite places in Jerusalem is Montefiore's windmill. He was this Jewish British guy with a lot of money who came to visit the Holy Land a bunch and built a windmill here, right near the Artist's Colony. Random, right? But the neighborhood is named after him, so I like it.


One of the signs in the Old City, indicating that you've reached the Jewish Quarter. We usually enter from the Christian Quarter, which is full of stalls and spices and crazy things!

Okay I'm done now I swear. But I will take more pictures and post them soon if you all want! :)