I thought today that I would give you a tour through our daily life:
4:45-5:30am we wake up. I know its beyond early but thats when our bodies say its time to get up...without coffee or alarm clocks. We wake up to the noisy birds outside.
6:30-7:30am is usally breakfast time. We have lots of fruit like apricots from the tree outside, grapefruit, pairs, olives. There are numerous different cereals, and usually eggs in some form, sandwhich meat and cheese.
7:30am we head out for a morning of touring the endless maze of Jerusalem (primarily the old city and the old ancient core)
12:00-1:00pm lunch time. By this time in the day we are very hot, tired, hungry and ready to sit down. Lunch usually consists of meat, beans, rice, salad, fruits, and olives.
1:15-5:00pm we head to the classroom where Dr. Carl Rassmussen teaches us everything we could ever want to know about geography, geology and much much more.
5:00-6:00pm we either do our daily impression reports (journal) or map work, or nap, or walk around.
6:00-7:00pm we have dinner. Very similar to lunch
7:00-9:00pm After dinner we head out into the city. Starting last night and for the next few nights there is a lights show going on in Jerusalem which is a little exciting. We tend to walk around and visit places we have visited earlier but want to go back and spend some more time. For example last night a couple of us went to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to watch them close the doors, but also to go back in spend some time praying, to light a candle, to touch the stone that Mary prepared Christ's body for burial on and so forth.
9:00-11:00pm By this time lots of our group are tired and so head to bed, however, some of us stay up late and finish map homework, eat toast with chocolate on it and watch lunar eclipses (well actually just one lunar eclipse...but it was awesome especially because we can go on the roof of our school)
Tomorrow we head out on our first field trip covering the Central Benjamin Plateau we leave on the bus at 7:00am and get back in time for dinner at 6:00pm.
Some Quick Highlights so far:
Hezekiah's Tunnel was fantastic. A lot of things in Jerusalem are probable but not for sure, however, Hezekiah's Tunnel is the real deal. It is an underground tunnel 1km long. The bottom of it is filled with water that comes up to about our mid shins. With head lamps on and back packs cinched high we walked through. Erv, our proff along with us, would make those of us toward the back stop every so often and do 'darkness tests' where we would turn off all our head lamps and walk for a ways in pitch black...loads of fun.
The Western Wall: Today we visited the Western Wall. I have waited for this for moment for a long time, and at times have wondered if I had built it up to much...In no way was I disappointed... I can't even begin to explain all that was going through me as I pressed my hands and face along the wall, in the woman's section.
Anyway I hope to up date you tomorrow but we'll see how tired I am at the end of the day...just know we are having loads of fun learning and exploring
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