a pause

admittedly, i dont blog with any regularity. its unfortunate i suppose. i have been online only three or four times since my last bloggery. it is amazingly difficult. i have internet sometimes in 3x3 corner of the common room of my apt. as in, it is not in my room. i get wireless on campus (where my apartment is not), but that means i have to bring my computer on the .5 hour walk to and from campus (and all the time in between). basically, i have difficulty with finding time to update you. and i am sorry.

that being said, i still love it here. we have apparently passed the half way point in the courses. there are 15 courses to a semester here, and tomorrow is class nine. time has been flying. somehow, i am still not behind in school work. in fact, i might be at the top of my class. it's funny that any course that i enjoy, i magically do well in.... we have had our first field trip also. we went to gezer (i blogged about that about 10 months ago...), to neot keddummim (a biblical agricultural reserve--namely they farm like in ancient times) and herded goats (one of the coolest experiences ever), we also went to lachish. lachish was an ancient city that was the last stand fortress that the assyrians encountered on their way to destroy jerusalem. at lachish they built a huge ramp up the almost vertical mountain (hill). they were successful at lachish, and the king (sennacherib) was very proud. as it turns out they lost at jerusalem. my professor had some of us role-play as defenders and some as attackers (that's me). as attackers we were supposed to run up the ramp and "attack". very difficult. it took us nearly 20 minutes to find a viable route. when we finally got to the top, we were covered in thorns and prickly things. we looked around, and our class was nowhere to be found. so we stormed the city with no resistance (this role-play was not true to form). we left the city through the ancient gate. we finally caught up with our class and asked what happened. dr aster said that he had not expected us to actually be successful in scaling the walls, so they had left the city expecting us to be outside waiting for them. he was very impressed at our wall-scaling skills. maybe i should consider a career in ninja-ing.

it was all good and fun. what else to say? i am currently very tired. i had a day off today. three of my bible classmates and i went to the biblical zoo in j'lem. i havent been to zoo in sooooooo long. i had so much fun. i actually took pictures today (very rare!), and a few videos (more rare, but camera ran out of batteries so i used the hand video cam that noa and daniel gave me). i will upload all that sometime....maybe....if you are lucky. again, very tired. am going to bed. good night!!!


EDIT: let's say that before sunday, i have another post for you.