Finally Here!

Jerusalem! After a lot of traveling and no sleep, I am finally here! As soon as we got to the center, the faculty and staff had a schedule to keep us busy until bedtime. Between the lack of sleep we all got the night before we left and the 24 hours of traveling, we were all pretty much zombies, but they wanted us to adapt to the time difference quickly so they made us stay awake. My roommates and I didn't get the best sleep because our apt was FREEZING! When we woke up in the morning and looked out the window, we found out why. Jerusalem is blanketed with snow! (about 5 inches and it is still snowing). The center isn't really built for the cold and snow, so we all wear our coats to class and everywhere else. Apparently they haven't had snowfall like this in 10 years or so.  I got some pictures that I will upload eventually. The internet isn't good enough to upload pictures here at the center, so I will have to upload them when I go to the city. We are all confined to the center until they give us a full security orientation which probably won't be until Sunday. I'll be able to tell more about Jerusalem once I have actually gotten out to see it!

The center is beautiful. It will be really interesting to live, eat, sleep, study, go to class and have church all in the same building. Since I haven't been able to get out and explore, my favorite things so far are the awesome middle eastern food and the students. There are some awesome students in the program, and though I don't know everyone yet, I can tell we are going to have a party together. The adventure begins!