I don't even know how to start talking about JUC. There is just way too much.
I guess I could make a list?
-Old City of Jerusalem
-mt of olives
-mt scopus
-bethesda
-shiloh
-herodium
-azekah
-beth-shemesh
-ashkelon
-en-gedi
-qumran
-dead sea
-madaba
-beersheva
-arad
-the bus breaking down
this was - basically the result of about 4 or 5 days "in the field" (not classroom lectures). yeah. that's why i can't figure out where to start...
okay. i'm just going to pick three things and talk about them, and that will be that.
1. Ashkelon! the port city that in biblical times belong to the philistines. from ashkelon you can just barely see gaza - linford writes in sailing acts that it is cheaper to dock your boat in ashkelon than anywhere in israel because people are scared of gaza. i enjoyed my time there; we got to swim in the mediterranean (and it was lovely!) as well as briefly visit the stutzman's boat.
2. shiloh. this is the place where 'the lord first dwelled' and apparently there was a temple built there - not just a tabernacle. we read the story of samuel at shiloh and i enjoyed the morning spent there immensely. we explored some ruins that may be from the shiloh temple and they were absolutely covered in small, bright red flowers. it was so, so beautiful.
3. we've begun playing a game with a little stuffed hedgehog named Bob. Bob has a clip attached to his head, and our game is to try to attach him to someone's backpack without them noticing. If they don't notice, you win! and if they do, you get Bob back to try again on someone else.
also, the bus breaking down really isn't as exciting as it sounds. basically, we were driving up a hill when the bus shuddered and died. we got off the bus and started walking and then the bus magically started working again. we were all excited and thought it was fine until after we left whatever site we were currently at - and then we got stuck right before an intersection. so we sat through several cycles of lights with our bus driver calling people on his cell phone and trying over and over again to turn the bus on. at last it worked (sort of) and we limped through the intersection and pulled over to the side. and then we finally kept going only to die in the MIDDLE of another intersection, after which we all piled off the bus and just walked to Beth-Shemesh. Our poor bus driver, Muhammad, got under the bus and fiddled around with things and actually got it to work! so that is the bus breaking down story.
I guess I could make a list?
-Old City of Jerusalem
-mt of olives
-mt scopus
-bethesda
-shiloh
-herodium
-azekah
-beth-shemesh
-ashkelon
-en-gedi
-qumran
-dead sea
-madaba
-beersheva
-arad
-the bus breaking down
this was - basically the result of about 4 or 5 days "in the field" (not classroom lectures). yeah. that's why i can't figure out where to start...
okay. i'm just going to pick three things and talk about them, and that will be that.
1. Ashkelon! the port city that in biblical times belong to the philistines. from ashkelon you can just barely see gaza - linford writes in sailing acts that it is cheaper to dock your boat in ashkelon than anywhere in israel because people are scared of gaza. i enjoyed my time there; we got to swim in the mediterranean (and it was lovely!) as well as briefly visit the stutzman's boat.
2. shiloh. this is the place where 'the lord first dwelled' and apparently there was a temple built there - not just a tabernacle. we read the story of samuel at shiloh and i enjoyed the morning spent there immensely. we explored some ruins that may be from the shiloh temple and they were absolutely covered in small, bright red flowers. it was so, so beautiful.
3. we've begun playing a game with a little stuffed hedgehog named Bob. Bob has a clip attached to his head, and our game is to try to attach him to someone's backpack without them noticing. If they don't notice, you win! and if they do, you get Bob back to try again on someone else.
also, the bus breaking down really isn't as exciting as it sounds. basically, we were driving up a hill when the bus shuddered and died. we got off the bus and started walking and then the bus magically started working again. we were all excited and thought it was fine until after we left whatever site we were currently at - and then we got stuck right before an intersection. so we sat through several cycles of lights with our bus driver calling people on his cell phone and trying over and over again to turn the bus on. at last it worked (sort of) and we limped through the intersection and pulled over to the side. and then we finally kept going only to die in the MIDDLE of another intersection, after which we all piled off the bus and just walked to Beth-Shemesh. Our poor bus driver, Muhammad, got under the bus and fiddled around with things and actually got it to work! so that is the bus breaking down story.
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