okay, so being the brillant person i am, i left my notebook in my room so everything i tell you here will be from memory. But I did just figure out the shift key so at least I can use capital letters :) And make smilies.

So, I am in Israel working on a dig. I am working with a group of people digging up stuff from the Roman period. That is when Jesus would have been there. I have now stood on the only place where it is known for certian that Jesus walked. Like on the actual stones he touched. Pretty awesome. I keep thinking about how the pottery shards I have been finding could have been used by Jesus. Kind of mind boogling.

Speaking of mind boogling, yesterday I went swimming in the Sea of Galilee. That was amazing. A group of us, Lauren and Nate from Truman and Nick, a cowboy from Montana who is working on the dig for two weeks talked to the life guard. His name is Israel, and he is trying to learn English. We had some funny miscommunications as we were trying to teach each other the words of our languages. We had an especially fun time trying to figure out how to describe the word "silly" so he could teach it to us in Hebrew. I do not think we were successful.

Going back to the dig, it is pretty hard work. We had to pull weeds when we first got there and clean up leaves. Then we set up tarps for shade and finally started digging. It was very dirty, and I didn't like it very much. It got better today after we got some rocks moved and started a finding a few more things. I have found some pottery shards, some bones (animal), and some glass. And lots of dirt and rocks. We dig only a few inches at a time; something to do with the layers and striation. I'll explain later. Then we put pieces of pottery we find into to buckets and put the dirt into buckets so it can be sifted if we miss anything. It is pretty tedious to tell the truth.

In the evenings we have a lecture series, and I don't really stay awake very well during those. They are right after dinner.

I think that is all I have for right now. I will have better things to report when I have my notebook with me.

Shalom!