We woke up early this morning - many of us around 4 am due to jetlag complications - to a lovely breakfast provided by the Fauzi Azar Inn. Lots of yogurt, cheese, eggs and pita. Pita is mandatory for all meals. (And also cucumber juice. Not my favourite, but interesting!)
Our bus today took us to a school in Ibillin where we met with other students our age.
We got a chance to hear some of the students' opinions on the tensions between Israeli's and Palestinians and then we toured the campus. Their church was very beautiful and colourful. Puts the cafeteria to shame, really. It had such great acoustics that we sang "Viva la Vida". We should have take more tenors and basses on this trip. After our tour we all gathered in the gym to play basketball, soccer and frisbee, or just talk on the sidelines. The boys were impressed that Canadian girls could actually play soccer. I learned how to spell my name in Arabic! The school treated us to a nice lunch and a dessert made almost entirely of cheese with pistachios and syrup called "kanafeh". Jacquelyn was not impressed with the nut situation.
Since we had some time left, the bus took us to Akka (Arabic), Akko (Hebrew) or Acre (English) to see the ocean.
We had a chance to wade in the Mediterranean and then walk along the walls city walls. The ocean was warm!
Some local boys were running along the walls and jumping into the water below. I can't say that I wanted to join them, although I really wanted to go swimming. We had to say yalla bye to our hosts after that, and we drove back to Nazareth. During the break between dinner some people explored while others napped.
Dinner was at the Fauzi Azar again, and again more pita. (And pickled eggplant. Lyndon was the only one who really enjoyed that, and he may have been pretending.)
The moon is peeking above the buildings of Nazareth and the Cyprus trees.
Tomorrow morning we're leaving to walk the Jesus Trail, and we'll be incommunicado for the next four days.We'll be in Cana overnight tomorrow, the site of Jesus's first public miracle where he turned water into wine. Party time!
New Word: Zaki (Arabic) means "the food is tasty!". We'll be using this one a lot, hopefully.
-Ayla
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