Kiriath-jearim. This place is within view from our campus and it turned out to be a place with some pretty cool historical events. Kiriath-jearim was a city in the Old Testament that was located at the spot where three territories of the 12 tribes connected and these three tribes included Judah, Benjamin, and Dan. But the more interesting fact about this city was that this was the location where the Ark of the Covenant remained for many years until it was finally moved by David to Jerusalem. As we walked along one of the highways up to the hill top we were probably walking along the same path that the people traveled in order to bring the Ark to Kiriath-jearim, so that was pretty cool to walk along that same path and then we went to the hill top where the Ark most likely had rested for that time. There is now a monastery located on that hill. After we went up to Kiriath-jearim we continued to walk further down into some cities and then we returned a little while to the campus in order to eat dinner and then after dinner I have pretty much nothing to do until tomorrow morning. Tomorrow I have class for a short bit and then we are taking our first official field trip to Jerusalem! So I'm excited for that and we are going to the Old City part of Jerusalem and it should be a good time. Well I hope everything is going well back home! Love you guys!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Day 1 and 2
Well right now I am drawing near to the end of my first full day here in Israel. We arrived yesterday at the airport a little before 3 in the afternoon after about 14 hours of flying and a few hours of layovers. Yesterday we didn't really do too much except arrive here at the campus (which is about 10 miles outside of Jerusalem), unpack, and then eat dinner. I finally had my first Kosher meal ever last night! Besides a few interesting items the food was ok I enjoyed the pita bread mainly during that meal. During dinner last night one of the professors recommended that we stay up till 10 before we go to sleep so we adjust better but....at about 7 me and cody were already struggling to stay awake so we decided to try and stay awake till 8 which we barely managed to do. Then this morning we had our dairy meal of the day which was breakfast and to my surprise I thought breakfast was pretty good. It was interesting to see fish and salad for breakfast but the eggs were pretty good and the kind of cereal I tried was also good, it tasted like Smacks (for those of you who know what Smacks are). After breakfast we had some orientation stuff and we walked around the campus a little bit getting more and more acquainted with it and then we ate lunch which was pretty good too. After lunch we then had our first class, which was for our Land and Bible class. We went over the syllabus for a little and then we went on a little hike to a place very near to our school called Kiriath-jearim. This place is within view from our campus and it turned out to be a place with some pretty cool historical events. Kiriath-jearim was a city in the Old Testament that was located at the spot where three territories of the 12 tribes connected and these three tribes included Judah, Benjamin, and Dan. But the more interesting fact about this city was that this was the location where the Ark of the Covenant remained for many years until it was finally moved by David to Jerusalem. As we walked along one of the highways up to the hill top we were probably walking along the same path that the people traveled in order to bring the Ark to Kiriath-jearim, so that was pretty cool to walk along that same path and then we went to the hill top where the Ark most likely had rested for that time. There is now a monastery located on that hill. After we went up to Kiriath-jearim we continued to walk further down into some cities and then we returned a little while to the campus in order to eat dinner and then after dinner I have pretty much nothing to do until tomorrow morning. Tomorrow I have class for a short bit and then we are taking our first official field trip to Jerusalem! So I'm excited for that and we are going to the Old City part of Jerusalem and it should be a good time. Well I hope everything is going well back home! Love you guys!
Kiriath-jearim. This place is within view from our campus and it turned out to be a place with some pretty cool historical events. Kiriath-jearim was a city in the Old Testament that was located at the spot where three territories of the 12 tribes connected and these three tribes included Judah, Benjamin, and Dan. But the more interesting fact about this city was that this was the location where the Ark of the Covenant remained for many years until it was finally moved by David to Jerusalem. As we walked along one of the highways up to the hill top we were probably walking along the same path that the people traveled in order to bring the Ark to Kiriath-jearim, so that was pretty cool to walk along that same path and then we went to the hill top where the Ark most likely had rested for that time. There is now a monastery located on that hill. After we went up to Kiriath-jearim we continued to walk further down into some cities and then we returned a little while to the campus in order to eat dinner and then after dinner I have pretty much nothing to do until tomorrow morning. Tomorrow I have class for a short bit and then we are taking our first official field trip to Jerusalem! So I'm excited for that and we are going to the Old City part of Jerusalem and it should be a good time. Well I hope everything is going well back home! Love you guys!
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