10/3/11

Today was the test. It felt pretty good, but you never know. When you feel like you did great, sometimes you bomb it. But I really enjoyed the essay questions. I felt like I knew them well and had a lot to say about them. I especially like the topic about the political situation in Israel. Because I just went to Israel in the spring, I had a lot to say about the topic and hopefully explained myself well. This is a huge topic and the conflict has been going on for so long. Now the Judaism unit is over I will not be lucky enough to have first hand knowledge about the religion. I think that these three religions have such a big background and I wish we covered the over lap of them more. I know that Jerusalem is a huge place of conflict. When in Israel I found it very interesting that Jerusalem was an important place to all three religions. One religion said this event happened in a certain location in Jerusalem while another said a different event happened in that same location.  I think it the overlap is all very fascinating and I wish we went into that more in class.