A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words

Sunset, Sea of Galilee

Well sports fans, it’s come down to this: our Israel expedition is nearing the end. In 21 days, we will be hopping on a plane at 5:30am and heading back Stateside. It is surreal and hasn’t really sunk in just yet. We have plenty keeping us distracted.

- Tomorrow, we have a friend from Oklahoma (Robin) visiting us for roughly 10 days. We’ll be running her around the country, catching up, taking more photos, and getting one more look at the Land of the Bible.

- Today, we are showing two professors from the States around the Old City. One teaches at a Bible college; one at a seminary.

- I’m finishing up my seminar project. My thesis has been turned in for reading. So, that’s out of my hands.

- We were w/o water in our building for a touch over a day. Last night, we celebrated Shabbat w/some fellow students who live near Ramallah, one block from the Security Wall (or Partition Wall as your politics prefer). They go 3 consecutive days per week w/o water. Every week. They are on Ramallah’s water system and Ramallah rations. Conclusion: we are spoiled.

-We currently have another guest/former JUC student/former flatmate who’s studying Biblical Hebrew at the language program we’ve mentioned a lot (www.biblicalulpan.com). We’ve been catching up w/her and chattering away in Biblical Hebrew. Conclusion: we are nerds and love it.

So, after our friend Robin leaves, we have roughly 1.5 weeks to settle our stuff here, pack, and mentally prepare ourselves to head back.

In any event, the sun is setting our time here. Time to go to work…

~ by eikonministries on July 4, 2009.