8:04 PM ; Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Okay. Give up? My favourite place is at the sea of galilee. Its beautiful. We had worship in the middle of the sea, under a drizzle. How wonderful can that get? I could really feel God's presence, and I could visualise how he walked on water and the other miracles that He perfomed there. Yups...thats all that I am going to say for Israel, beacuse I don't have the time to write about everything. I can't believe school is starting in 8 DAYS. I want a longer holiday! Boohoo. I am going to be really busy when school starts. Sigh. Oh well.
Yes...and Merry (belated) Christmas! (:
12:06 PM ; Wednesday, December 19, 2007
So sorry for all the spelling mistakes that I am going to make or i have made. I dont re-read whatever i typed before publishing the post. okay...i will tell you about my first and second day in Israel.From the Taba Border, we drove straight to the Dead Sea region. By the time we got there, it was about 3.30 or 4pm. We quickly dashed to our rooms to get
changed into our swimsuits. On the way down. we met Pastor Raymond, and so my brother, Richard and I run towards the beach, leaving the adults to chase after us. HAHA. We were running partly because the sun was already setting, and we didnt want to be out in the dark. The sea water was icy cold. My brother was the first one down. It was really cool, as we were all floating once we lie on the water. The water was terribly salty and oily too. After that, we proceeded to the swimmming pool located in the hotel. We met some of our other tour members. We enjoyed ourselves in the warm water before the security person chased us all out. He said that the water is not good for children under 18 because of the minerals. I don't get the logic in that though. As our parents all went to enjoy the SPA programme, we kids all flocked to pastor's room to played there. HAHA. The younger ones were playing with PSP while Beatrice and I joined 2 others in playing with card games. After that, we played cards every evening if time permited.
The next day we went to Masada, the Qumran caves-this is where the dead sea scrolls were discovered. (Isaiah's completed books). Yups...nothing much for that day.
6:30 PM ; Monday, December 17, 2007
Haven't written in proper english for a long time! Let me just tell you abit about my trip first. I haven't submitted my reflections to Pastor yet...uhoh. Haha. Okay, here i go.In Egypt, the thing i liked most was Mount Sinai. First, we took a camel ride for 2 hours halfway up the mountain. Then, if we wanted to get to the top, we have to get up there by foot. There were afew hundred steps to climb, plus, the higher the altitude, the thinner the air is. My brother and I decided to climb together, since my parents were relatively slow as they were tired when we were climbing. We were the 4th and 5th person from our group to make it to the top. That was not bad right? We were last when we first started off. Guess who was the top three climbers? Haha. They were all from the other church which combined with my church for this trip. At the submit, it was really good because we caught the last few moments of the sunset. The pictures we took was really nice too. Haha. After catching our breath, we went down afew steps to cheer the rest on. For me, it was really encouraging to see so many other brothers and sisters in christ pant their way up to the top. It was tough for altheles, whats more for the others? After all of us completed our journey up, Pastor annointed us with oil. That was really meaningful. We also sang a song there, and poured oil all over, as a sign of annointing over the mountain. We then made our way down together as a team. The steps were relatively steap and so we took a long time to make our way down. When the sky was dark, we looked up into the sky and we say many many stars...uncountable. It was beautiful. Someone then mentioned about the story of Abraham. It reminded me about what God spoke to him. In general, Mount Sinai was one of my favourite places that we visited.
Another thing about Egypt-the pyramids. It was awesome! I still cannot imagine how the people in the past climbed up so high just stacking blocks of stone on the pyramid!
Okay then, I will write about Israel the next time. I have to go now. In the mean while, guess which was my favourite place? A price for the first person who can guess it right at the first try-terms and conditions apply. Haha. Like those who were at pastor's room on the last night will know. (:
8:47 PM ; Thursday, December 13, 2007
I am back! My heart is still living in Israel. Haha. I thought it was the best trip ever...although some unpleaseant things spoilt some fun. Will tell you about my trip in my next post. I have to do reflections and send it via email to pastor Raymond first.
