So, a week hath passed it has since I arrived here. My time has been spent on a myriad of different things, from visiting a vast and swanky shopping centre in the centre of Jerusalem that was built on the ruins of a destroyed Arab village (they kindly named the centre after it), visiting people and places and finding somewhere to volunteer for the next month and a half. Well, I have been staying in Ramallah with Lazar, the one whom we all met up the mountain in ...

This is a brief one just to say that I am alive and kicking more or less in Ramallah. I arrived in Amman around 9.30pm on the 25th, met some koreans and japanese (as one is want to do) and then headed across the king hussein bridge. Taxi there was 20JD (5 each) and then we had to pay the extortionate fee of 4.25 for the JETT bus to take us across the border. Then a 40 NIS ride into Jerusalem. Pricey...though it was strange to see Jerusalem again after almost thre...