the next stage (wowzer?)

This is Willie
Oh my dear readers

things are going at light speed and a snails pace as usual. I am right now sitting at a table in the shade almost cold (there's a chilly breeze) in my tank top, shorts, and sandals (there was a nice gust nearly producing goosebumps). I still haven't managed to tell anyone about last weekend when we went to Nahal Yahudia (a sweet canyon park thing) and hiked. That was awesome. I've been trying tp put up the pictures for ages. I got one or two of them up but who knows if I'll ever get the rest. (Finally got the goosebumps... I should get a hoodie). Anyway basically we drove two hours and then got out of the bus only to descend into a giant rift in the earth with a river at the bottom. Not only were their rock cliffs on either side of me which were huge and awesome, but there were spots where I could climb up the rock face and jump into the deeper levels of the river. The first jump was from about 30 feet and the second from 45 to 50 feet. Being not so good with heights I took my time jumping from each, but finally I was coerced into take the leap of faith each time. It was a good analogy if I ever wanna talk about the struggled and benefits of faith. Anyway there was a waterfall we could sit under and some other sweet stuff.

This weekend we went to Benjamin (Jericho, Gezer, the road between Jerusalem and Jericho). It was really cool seeing Herod's winter palace, but other than that it wasn't super interesting.

Haha there's a lot less homework here than I am used to so I've been wasting some time playing my friends psp (exactly 18 hours of time lol)... kinda embarrassing. But I'm almost done with that stage of my time here. It's cool the different ways some of my classes have me looking at the Bible. Like, in Physical Settings of the Bible we see how much the sentences like "they went from Jericho to Jerusalem" are really important and set a scene while we just pass over them, or how my rabbinic thought and lit class has us look for "problems" in the text, like what isn't said. It's pretty cool

In two weeks were going to Eliat (or something Eaat I dunno...) and camping on the beach. i am super excited for that.


Cheers and God bless