Warming it up

So the weather here is starting to hint of what it is going to be like the rest of the summer. It is really warming up and there is not a cloud in the sky. For the last week a little bit of rain had fallen each day and the breese had really kept things nice and cool, but now I think that summer is upon us. Today walking back from the city they were actually doing a controlled burn in the Kidron Valley, and I got a neat pic that looks like the city is burning! It was pretty cool. At first we didn't know what was going on, just that the Mt of Olives was on fire, but talking to some people we found out that it wasn't a problem and so yeah.

Anyway, so we went to our Jewish History class today, and our teacher Ophir is a great guy, but man he has us read a lot! He told us that he asked the administration how many pages of text he could assign for hte number of credits his class is, and that is the amount of pages that we got! It is an insane amount of reading to do and so i'm not really looking forward to all of it, but his class seems really interseting, and so i'm glad that i'll be learning from him.

I didn't get much time in the city today, but the little that I did have was well spent I think. We went down to the old City of David and saw the ruins of that town. It really was a small town, long and skinny going right down between two valleys. The Tyropean valley is filled in now, but a street goes right down where it used to be, so you can really see what the city would have looked like. Later as a class we are going to go to the Gihon spring and down Hezikiah's tunnel which is in the same area. The Gihon spring is the one that is supposed to flow from underneith the temple, flow down the Kidron Valley, and heal the Dead Sea in the last days, just to orient you.

We then took a trip up to Dormition Abbey, the place where Mary is sleeping until the second coming. It is a newer church, and so it doesn't have the same Byzantine feel that many of the other churchs do, and actually each major sect of Christianity has little chapel in the basement of where the tomb of Mary is. It we didn't get to see all of it because we were in a little bit of a hurry to get back for our Hebrew class, but it was a good see. We found King David's tomb along the way too and so it was neat to a t least locate a few of the other places that I want to see later.

Anyway, I think that is about all for the time being, I know that this wasn't the most exciting of the days that I have had, but bear with me, I think that I will have better days to come! Love you all!