Beauty is on the inside...right?

So a few days ago at lunch, one of the girls at the table was wearing a shirt that said "beautiful" in big block letters, & someone asked her about it & she said she participated in this challenge that the BYU women's club put on, and for like 10 days you had to do whatever challenge they gave you, and she was telling us some of them, and one of them was to just get out of the shower & not to do you're hair or make-up, but just go to classes naturally. One of the other girls at our table said we should do that here at the JC, only it would be to wear make-up, and not wear anything from D.I. or V.V.! It was pretty funny cause it's so true! At the beginning of the semester, I used to wake up at 6:15 do my make-up & hair & try to put together some cute outfit, then I would go to breakfast at 7:30, and be sitting in my class by 8. Today I woke up at 7:45, washed my face, put in my contacts, got dressed in the first t-shirt I saw (I actually put my pants on inside out because I was trying to be quick, thankfully they were just black yoga pants so no one noticed!), got breakfast & ate it in 5 minutes, and was sitting in my seat at 8 (we get docked marks if we are late!). The only downside to this is that I have no desire to take any pictures because I look so gross in them! But beauty is on the inside right?

Anyhow, here's a few pictures of what I've been up to lately!

We went to the holocause museum with our Judaism teacher. It was one of the saddest things I have ever seen. I have always known about the holocaust, I learned about it in high school, but being here, and getting to know the Jewish people, their history and their culture, going to synagogue with them has made  me feel so much closer to them, like I actually know them, and so hearing about the holocause this time was closer to my heart than it had been before. Also the night before we went, we watched "Life is Beautiful", which I had never seen. I loved it so much, but it was so, so, so sad.

But immediately after going to the museum, we went to Mt. Herzl. Herzl is the man who started Zionism, and his grave is here, so our Judaism teacher described it as going from a place of lows (holocaust museum), to a place of highs (mt.herzl). As you can tell by my pose, it was freezing that day!

Then on our free day a while ago, we were told that this building behind us was where the Last Supper was, but we got there & found out that it was just a church that the crusaders had built in honor of the Last Supper & of the Virgin Mary.

They had a prayer book you could write in & then the monks would pray for you

This is from a while ago, but a guy came and talked to us (he is like super high up, like that morning he was talking with the prime minister of Israel, and he has influenced some of the U.S. gov't's decisions because he is one of the people they go to for advice about Israel, like he was amazing) and took us on a field trip and he took us to the seperation wall, which is also really sad, but very interesting to learn about.

Ugh well now I need to go write my 5 pg paper for Islam (our teachers name is Bashir Bashir, no joke!) on the three differences between the first & second intifada's and actually, this wall was a result of the second intifada, which was triggered by Ariel Sharon, an Israeli politician went on the temple mount (dome of the rock), and was accompanied by 1,500 Israeli policemen to ensure his safety. This was followed  few hours later by about 1,000 Muslim protestors stoning Israeli policemen, and from that point on it just got worse and worse until the Israeli's decided to put up the seperation wall in 2002.

Wow don't you wish that this is what you were doing on you're Friday nights?