Quick Update of my Life

I'm here in the library on Mt. Zion looking out into Jerusalem.  I'm tired and I'm trying to finish my Ancient Egypt take home mid-term exam.  Its not really an exam, its 4 essay questions I have to answer with reference to primary and secondary sources...whatta drag. lol.
For some reason I haven't been sleeping well lately.  I think its my pillow.  I have two. One is extreme huge and fat, and the other one is like if you folded up a sheet 4 times and stuck it under your head.  So it takes me like 1 to 2 hours to fall asleep, no matter what time I go to bed.  But I always fall asleep instantly when I lay down for my afternoon nap.  But then sometimes I sleep till dinner and then I'm not ever tired again.

The Holy Land is not very holy.  During the last day of the Sukkot Holiday we went out into the city and there were just tons of people - all drinking and dancing.  I'm not sure what the Orthodox Jews were consuming...they were dancing too though, and waving flags around and stuff.  Then me and some other guys got on top of this van.  It had a dance pad on top of it with large speakers.  So we danced for a while. lol.  There is a video of it on facebook. You should be able to find it under "videos of Yehoshua"
The next day we took our first trip to McDonalds. mmmm.  All i got was a McFlurry though.  Right now i'm really craving a burger...maybe tonight will be my second trip to McDonalds.
OH! And one of my friends was sent a package, it was actually sent to 3 students who are all from CIU, the school I was thinking of transferring to.  So in it was a package of Oreos that my friend shared with me. MAN! I miss not being able to just go down the road to walmart and buy whatever I want.  I miss cookies and COLD milk.  The milk here is never cold, nor is it even sold cold.  I don't really understand how it works. But that'll be one thing I look forward to back in the good ol' U.S.

Today was a crazy day.   I made a lot of decisions... lol
1st - I changed my flight back to the U.S. for Jan. 9th 2011. I'm spending Christmas and the New Year with my friend Josh in Greece.  Well, we'll probably be on the island of Cyprus by the new year.  But, in any case, I wont be home for Christmas.  Which is definitely sad, I'll be missing those biscuits badly AND all that BACON!  It's illegal to sell bacon here.  I miss bacon.

this is my McFlurry

This is us at McDonalds

2nd - I have officially decided to transfer schools.  I'll be going to Columbia International University to finish off my undergrad degree in Pastoral Ministries.  It was a tough decision, but after sleepless nights, talking with friends, and of course lots of prayer and prayerful thought I believe that it is God's will.  I just now made the decision so I still have a lot of e-mails to send and calls to make.  So the act of actually going I guess is not finalized, but my decision is to go that direction.

This is my friend Josh in an Olive Tree