Woah man, Israel.

I'm David Miller, just to start.

I'm writing from a computer lab somewhere in the Mar Elias school. I think I heard it's friday, but the past few days have been a blur of early morning/late nights and holy sites. This morning we woke up early (for summer) and set out to do some good will volunteering around the campus. We headed over to the new college building (under construction, with no real oversight, the adults keep saying something about "osha" which I guess is some California safety for workers thing, I'd check wikipedia, but I don't know if this computer could handle two things at once. Also, I'm pretty sure some adult will repeat it, they make the same jokes over and over. Also, the British are liars and the Dutch invented sailing and computers. Haha, I guess that jokes thing goes all around, for good reason.) Man, I really don't know how to handle ending a sentence with parentheses. Anyways, we went there and some people started sanding, which sounded like a swarm of insects with a mind to kill us with sound. "Could you apologize that we haven't been able to ad pictures to our blog we have been having difficulties. We are still alive, we just don't have photographic proof." That was Christina, I would have forgotten if I hadn't written it down. Okay! So, then Alyssa and I went down and scooped up heaps of dirt and bagged it, and Ellen wouldn't let me chuck the bags out of the door from the fifth stoor out into nothingness like the workersx were doing, oh well. Anyways, I was walking through the halls and then I hit my foot on something and it was all bleeding, so then I went into another room (they made me do all the cleaning stuff, I guess this is Israel and all.) But then I was doing slow-motion running for some reason, and I accidentally stepped on a paint tray (Brendan says he warned me, chhwhatever.) Then everyone laughed and I tried to not fall out the window. Oh well. It was really cool though! I felt like I was getting a little negative. We got a lot of work done, like, enough that I felt like we were actually making some impact. Mmm, manual labor is satisfying. Much much more than studying. So then later on we went to Caesarea, which is a ruin that's been, well, made new. A nuin. Haha, dumb. Okay so, it was cool, and we wspent some time walking around in the dusty, humid Israel air, which I guess is just God's way of making us appreciate the ocean, which was awesome. Well, once you got over the fifty feet of rocks out into the ocean. Someone said they saw an eel, who said that? It was really nice though, it was as nice looking as the Mexican water, with less than a fifth of the parasites! Sorry Mexico, better step up your game. Then we dried off in the sun, which was God's way of reminding us that things aren't always as nice as the ocean, which we're not allowed to live in, and all you can do is take things as they come. Alyssa says it's Saturday. Then we left and went to some aquaduct ( a nice aquaduct), and then back to the school for the graduation.
I need to make more paragraphs, pretty late, though. So we were late to that, only me and Bruno and Ross(?) and Matt, but it seems like that always happens. It was cool, and pretty, well, it was exactly the same as an American graduation. The others are reading this and criticizing, I bet they're reading this now. Oh gosh, that sounded like some paranoid ghost movie line. Anyways, I guess Alyssa and Bruno are grammar hounds, and that's always annoying. But then, it's aliSsa and Brewn'oh (Oh yeah, they're FREAKING OUT!) Okay, gotta go. Things are great, our room has an amazing view, this town really gets more active at night. Night!