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Well, after over 5 weeks studying abroad, I am finally home. Studying abroad in Israel was one of the most amazing things I have ever done!!! I have hardly been home and I miss it already!!! In addition to what I wrote about in all the previous entries, we got to go to an Israeli Baseball Game, went to see "The Transformers" (again), went to Yad Vashem (the Holocaust memorial), walked the Via Dolorosa (the original stations of the Cross) with some Franciscan friars, visit the Temple Mount, and go on class fieldtrips to the Old City of Jerusalem, Masada, En Gedi, the Dead Sea, and Qumran (where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found). After classes, I stayed in Israel for a few days, and traveled around with some of the friends I made. We went north to Haifa, Tiberius (on the Sea of Galilee), Nazareth, and Tel Aviv. All in all it was an absolutely AMAZING experience that I wouldn't trade for the world. And I never would've gotten to go if it wasn't for the personal attention of professors and faculty at St. Peter's!
An Israeli Baseball League game! Probably the only field in the world where a homerun ball could land in the middle of a 3000 year old settlement.
An Israeli Movie Theatre! Complete with assigned seats and an intermission!
Our class in front of the old Temple walls!
At Qumran!
The Dead Sea!
The Temple Mount
Tel Aviv
Trying to "walk on water" on the Sea of Galilee...
Nazareth
My last night and last falafel in Israel.....=(