Wednesday, May 18
When we ventured off to Israel, who would have thought we would turn into archaeologists. Today, we went to an archeological site in Bet Guvrin where we went down into caves and excavated them. Our class found objects from around the time of the story of Chanukah in the “Wilma” cave. This was one of the five thousand caves around this archaeological site. Afterwards, we formed a bucket brigade and brought up all of the buckets of dirt and found items. We sifted through them to make sure we didn’t throw out any items from this site. Then, we went down into a cave that has not been excavated yet. It was lighted by candles and we had to go through all kinds of obstacles. Hadassah overcame her fear of claustrophobia and went through the whole cave. While climbing through one of the holes, Nathan fell down and landed onto one of the candles. (FYI ~ Mom, I’m perfectly fine. I never caught on fire. The class kept an eye on me and I am still alive and healthy. Love you!) Next, we explored Cave 61, which is one of the only caves that has been fully excavated. It was amazing to see the olive press from this time period. We got onto the bus and drove back to Jerusalem where we were dropped off at the City of David. We ate lunch and and watched a movie about how the city came to be. We walked through Hezekiah’s water tunnel that was built before the destruction of the Second Temple. We sloshed and slogged our way through the tunnel, as our leader, Ori lead the way. It was dark and dank and narrow and a little frightening. Afterwards, we came back to the youth hostel to clean up and eat dinner. We are all ready for a full day tomorrow!
L’hitraot,
Jessie and Nathan
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