Just some fun stuff

Life is going well here. School has started, most classes are in full swing, and it's the holidays already.

The weather has been beautiful and predictable, about 30 during the day and down to  around 20 at night and a breeze that picks up in the afternoon.  

I found this little guys by a window (on the outside) the other day. They are pretty cool looking, I've seen a couple, but they are fairly quick when they want to be. 

Last night was the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, or feast of trumpet. Some of went out and around, it was interesting seeing everything shut down. The old city seemed very empty! We went to the western wall expecting to see a crowd, but there wasn't many people there either. I guess most of them celebrate it with their families at home. But it looked really cool!

The first one is looking out towards the Mount of Olives (the dark areas are the cemeteries)

Looking back towards the temple mount

This morning we did some baking. It was fun. We made Challah bread with apples in it for Shabbat tomorrow and some cakes for this evening. It was fun braiding it, I really didn't have a method other than trying to weave it together sort of. 

And to end off for tonight.... A fun geography fact :) 

So the Hinnom valley is right next to J.U.C. and the Hinnom Valley is also known as Gehenna. 

Gehenna is translated into English (from Greek I think) as 'Hell'. 

It is a fun play on words :)