Last week was rather stressful. But I should have known that trying to learn both Hebrew and Arabic at the same time would be tough. I don't think I like Hebrew as much as I like Greek. Of course, just learning a biblical language only to read the Bible is rather annoying to me. I'm taking Arabic - spoken only- at the YMCA. There are no tests, ustaz Haloun just randomly shoots questions to you in Arabic and you have to answer him as quickly as you can, in front of the whole class. But this is my new preferred way of learning a spoken language. Arabic really helps here in Jerusalem, the Arabs in the Muslim quater really warm up to you once you practice trying to say your Arabic to them. There are some really nice shopkeepers in the Christian Quater that Rachel and I visit just to practice our Arabic, they get a huge kick out of all the cuss words we accidently say. Other than that, the super hard grading scale for grad students here is making me feel the pressure of doing really well. I just started filling out my applications for Notre Dame and Duke and I'm starting to feel a bit stressed. But I'll be ok. We all went on a fieldtrip yesterday, but Jericho is still shut down, so we couldn't get in there. But we did get out to 2 monasteries, the tomb of Samuel, and a crusader castle.