fun old cosas!

So here I am in the computer lab, on break from core curriculum in the morning. I've spent the past few hours studying Torah with my pal Jacqie, and then there was some discussion about historical value, bias, accuracy, etc-- for all of my TOK homies back in Salt Lake, this was totally old news and I OWNED it. If you had been there you would have laughed.

"It's a religious text, automatically carries a propagandistic bias, blah blah blah, cross-referencing for historical value, blah blah."

Awesome.

Yesterday we went to Tel Gezer, and it was completely, %100 amazing. It's an archeological dig about 45 minutes from Hod Ha'Sharon, and the areas exposed are from around 1750 BCE. The Canaanites were amazing-- they found this hilltop right at the beginning of Israel's foothills, and it's totally secured. It looks out along the costal strip (which is totally flat) to the Mediterranean, and then it's backed by more hills and the beginning of the mountains. Back in the day it was totally fortified; stone walls with cyclopean masonry as much as ten feet thick, and then those were reinforced with earth. To get water, they dug out a tunnel at least fifteen feet in diameter that went through the bedrock to an underground aquifer-- we even got to climb down it!

Amazing stuff, really. Just looking around almost all of us found pottery sherds from 3,000 years ago.

Break is almost over, so I'm off to study Biology for a few minutes and then it's back to class. Me, Fallon, Leeron, Jacqie, and Sasha are presenting a skit on Deborah's life as a judge. It's kind of terrible. But but...we were busy last night. With, you know. Homework. And stuff.

More later!
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