Olives Part II and Hezekiah's Tunnel

This morning when our class was trudging through thigh-deep water inside a tunnel chiseled over two thousand years ago under the walls of ancient and modern Jerusalem and the City of David I thought to myself, "I can't believe I get to call this school! I wonder what everyone is Rexburg is doing." We have had a lot of fun this week! Especially this morning in our Southern Kingdom/Judah Field Trip. I liked it because we've been studying this time period in both Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Old Testament this week. There are a lot of life lessons to be learned from these people! I'm glad I get to learn them here! Picture: note the level of water! wahoo!


The other fun thing we got to do yesterday (to get away from studying) was crush the olives we
had to pick last week. I learnedsome interesting things. For example, the huge round stone (in the picture) that you crush the olives with is called a tribulum... where the word tribulation comes from. Now think about that for a minute. It was a great experience... and it was fun to watch all of the olive slim fights afterwards. Thankfully I wasn't involved in that one.


Midterms are finally here and class is a disaster! Mostly because none of us want to be in class. That is how spoiled rotten we are! 2 Midterms, 2 Quizzes to go then we're headed for Jordan! I really want to write more, but it'll have to be later! Love ya lots!

Carlee