The Weekend in Jerusalem

Hi its sunday night, after a day full of classes. This past weekend we went to Jerusalem if you couldnt have guessed. Friday after a morning class we got all our stuff together and got on the bus for that way to familiar almost 2 hour bus ride to Jerusalem. Honestly weve been to Jerusalem a lot but still everytime we go we see something different and experience something amazing. Just like everytime we go, we started with some shopping, after checking into the LEV YERUSHALIEM (the name of the hotel) we went on a shopping trip to an outside market. It was really cute i bought half of a watermelon for 10 sheckles! Thats really good, thats like around 2 ish dollars, i still get confused with the conversion between sheckles and dollars, so whatever. :) um then we went back and did a small shabbat service, had our shabbat dinner, and then walked to the Kotel (Western Wall). We had a small service overlooking the Kotel lead by my teacher Alan, then we went down, seperated from the boys. The best part was seeing all the Soilders dancing and singing and also watching all the men doing there prayers and then dancing around. A couple girls and i did a small service right near the wall inside the girl section of course lead by 2 of my friends who know the friday night service. Then we all left and went back to the hotel and all hung out and stuff it was a lot of fun bonding time :) we played a like game show with our group and it was really nice. The next morning we had the option to go to either a Reform, Conservative, or Othordox synagauge, i was planning on going until i woke up a little to late, hopefully ill get another opportunity to go in Israel. Then we all went with our teacher again as our tour guide around the top of the Kotel wall, it was an amazing view. We could see the Rock of the Dome really well and it looked so pretty in the light. After we had a really nice havdallah with everyone outside and it reminded me of camp, it made everyone feel like family. :) i got to go though im going to get hair dye!! :) purple! lol ill write after our next tiyuls