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MY FIRST MONTHS IN ISRAEL ( Continued, from Page 15) other out of line, and argue all the bus ride over who did what and why, and everyone joins in and takes sides. Our wonderful oranges are off the market—grapes and melons are coming in. We have a little more to eat now during the summer months—there are more vegetables on the market. Tourists have been cut from seven to four eggs per week, and residents are always less, of course. I get very good food where I live—a big hostel operated by the RC nuns. They are very charming women, happy and talkative, very friendly and helpful. I don’t know how many people live here, but it is just like a big hotel. They have their own vegetable garden, hens, and pigs, so get along better than most places. Also, the UN helps with food and some things come across from the Old City where one can get any thing at very low prices. We got to go over to the Old City for Easter. That was really a miracle, I think, for tourists can pass over but must fly from that side to Cyprus in order to get back into Israel. I had been here but three weeks, but got to go over with a group of missionaries, and also to return. I haven’t gotten over that, yet. So many special things like that happen to me. I know it’s because of prayer, but I feel very touched each time. I could write pages about the Old City. We are only separated by the wall, and it isn’t a five minute drive from where we live right to the Garden Tomb and Calvary. But it is truly another world. That is what one always thinks of as the Holy Land. This side is far too modern. You can climb up to the top of the YMCA tower in the New City and see all the Holy Places on the other side, so I had already seen the Temple Area, the Garden of Gethsem- ane, the Mount of the Ascension, the Mount of Olives, Bethany, etc., but it was a real treat to get to the Garden Tomb and Calvary. Atop the hill called Calvary there is now a Moslem ceme tery. I took two pictures inside the Gar den Tomb, and one of them turned out pretty good. The other didn’t at all. Then we spent one day at Jericho and sights near by. Many of my slides of sights near Jericho were no good. I don’t know why. Perhaps those were the ones I tore to pieces. Jericho is beauti ful—an oasis of green and beauty in the midst of the barren desert and brown hills. Truly it is “ down” to Jericho- fifteen miles from Jerusalem, and 3,500 feet drop in altitude. The Arabs are such strange people—backward and con tent to be that way, it seems. Everyone is so poor, there’s no work and no mon ey. But they are so hospitable. I could go on and on over the way we were treated everywhere. The people are al ways friendly, smiling, polite, and help ful, and nothing is too much to do for one.
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