Brief update.

So what the heck have I been doing for the past 16 days? More than I can remember right now. I spent one week in Egypt with James, one of the other guys here at IBEX, which was immensely fun. We traveled all around Egypt, hitting Cairo (pyramids, museum), Alexandria (Catacombs, my birthplace, library, etc.), Luxor (Karnak, Valley of the Kings, and such), and Mt. Sinai. Atually, we spent the night on top of Mt. Sinai nestled under a Bedouin blanked that I pilfered.

Since then homework has been kicked into high gear as the end of the semester approaches. Yesterday we hiked all day from Jericho uphill to Jerusalem, along the same path the the good Samaritan story would have occurred and also the road along which Christ made His final journey to Jerusalem before the passion week.

I'm keeping busy studying for finals and working on my paper right now, trying not to think about going home in a little over a week. It will be good to be home though - see everyone and eat non-kosher food. Ahhh, yes.