26 Days And Counting!

With only 26 days left until Josh gets here time is flying by! We now have been here for almost two months and find ourselves with only a month to go. Time has gone by very fast and we have been kept super busy with school and field studies.

Last weekend we had our four day field study in Galilee. It was an awesome time to head back and revisit some old sites and also go and explore some new ones. A lot of what we have been learning has been dealing with the old testament but on this trip we had a chance to focus on a little more of the New Testament. We covered a lot of ground all the way from Caesarea on the coast up to Mt. Hermon and next to the border of Syria. We learned a lot about Jesus and his ministry and the districts in which he worked and had his ministry.



After getting home Tuesday night from the field study in Galilee the next morning Mark, Chris, and I headed out to go backpacking on Mt. Carmel. We arrived in Haifa a little late and as a result climbed Mt. Carmel as the sun was setting and somewhat in the Dark. We made camp that night and were awakened by a great view of the Mt. Carmel range. That day was filled with hiking around the hills and trudging through deep thickets to get out towards the coast. We eventually got out and then made our way towards the beach to spend the night on the sands of the Mediterranean. We witnessed an awesome sunset, had a bonfire, and then climbed into bed. The stay on the beach was little sketchy. I looked it up online and found that it was a good place to stay but still we were a little nervous.



That night we had to wait awhile to set up camp because a man was hanging around where we were going to sleep and it made us a little nervous. The man finally went away so we decided to stay. That night we were woken up at 2:30 am by some lights from another tent which was down the beach from us. We all settled back in and I heard someone walk right next to our tent. We looked out to make sure we were safe and we discovered a man dressed in black peeking into the other tent. He ran away once but then circled around our tent and went back. It was a little creepy because he would look inside the windows of the tent and sit and watch the people inside. About 10 minutes later he made a sound and the people heard him, he ran away, so Chris and I went down and talked to the other people in the tent to make sure they knew about the creeper. Needless to say the man never came back and we headed back to bed. It was an awesome trip, not only were we backpacking which I love, but we were doing it in Israel, on Mt. Carmel where Elijah was! Pretty sweet!



The remaining weeks are packed with events every week. We are hopefully planning another backpacking trip, then traveling to Jordan, followed by passover, then Josh comes, Then finals, finally our trip to Egypt, and then lastly Germany and home! The next two months will be exciting, filled with learning and I am sure will fly by!