I Feel Pretty

The thing about being a tourist is that certain souvenirs appeal to you, when of course they appeal to other tourists too. (Say that ten times fast-- tourists too-tourists too-tourists too.....blech!) Take these Egyptian soccer jerseys for example; out of the eighty JCenter students, I'd say at least nine of us bought one. And every time you'd wear yours, someone else would too. This field trip--to West Jerusalem's Mt. Hertzl, in honor of Theodore Hertzl--four of us did. Quite common. From left to right: Daniel Murdock (our Canadian boy,) Kendra Crandall, Rachel EM... uh... me, and Craig Estep. (I'm making a hideous face in this picture, but it proves my jersey point. Plus, my hat and sunglasses prove how bright it was that day. OR it just proves that I'm extrememly photo-sensitive. Either one.)

Some of the jerseys would say "Egyptian," but others would say "Egyption." Mine is the latter, and I would always joke that mine was more exotic because it was made by poor Egypt-shawn people.



















The same thing follows for these red shirts-- if you think it's cool, other cool people will too. If they have taste, that is. This next photo is, as I'm sure you cn guess, a Coca-Cola label. And, contrary to prior belief, it is NOT arabic. It is hebrew script. I say script, because they use different characters to write (script) than they do to read (block letters). I think that's nutter though, because then you have to learn TWO alphabets--but whatever. This picture was taken at Ein Gev, a lovely place in Israel with a fresh water spring, stream, and waterfall--and those are rare in that country. From left to right: Ryan Haynie, Kayla Partridge, Tiffany Dunn, Rebecca Price, and half of Rebecca Redd's head. And a note-- I realize that none of them are looking into the camera. I snapped this picture when they were posing for someone else. I learned that taking random pictures of people instead of making them pose usually paid off.