Surprise in Chapel

It all started with a clip of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. We were all sitting in chapel and no one knew why Captain was using this as a time to show an action movie. I admitted to a girl next to me that I had never seen it and she couldn't believe it. Before I knew it, others caught on to this fact and stared at me with mouths open in shock. (Apparently, I need to watch this in order for my life to be complete..thanks, Mom and Dad! Haha.) But--that is beside the point.

At the end of the clip, Captain announced that for the first time in HUG history, we are getting to visit the country of Jordan for 3 days on this Israel trip!! The reason he showed the movie is because we will get to visit the Valley of the Crescent moon that is in that movie, along with the treasury and other things that are built into the rock. I am impressed that we are going to Jordan, but I wish I was more familiar with the movie to appreciate that aspect a little more. There I was thinking we were going to meet Harrison Ford the whole time. Oh, well-- this is so much better!

We have been a part of many firsts-- we are one of the few who have gotten to take a leap year weekend (when we went to the island), we are the first to go to Alexandria, and now Jordan. Looks like I picked the right semester, huh?!

Not much else to tell, really. We're just taking tests a lot and getting ready to head out on Friday. I hear that this is the worst security we will face in an airport all semester- they told us we would probably get interrogated and asked what we were doing, etc-- and that our stories all have to match. Scary. I hate airports to begin with-- add a scary soldier questioning me-- fantastic. :-)