Sheffard in training

Today our field trip was to the Neot Kedumim Bible Reserve in the Holy Land.  Item number one on the itinerary was to herd sheep into a little circle of rocks.  You can call me a sheffard (as Urr would say) now, cause we did it pretty quickly.  It must have been all my experience with our goat Mikey when we had him... (Yeah right).

It was actually pretty hilarious cause everyone was just clapping at them like crazy people.

Next we had a demonstration of Boaz and Ruth given by Quin and Mackenzie.  We had this crazy tour guide today who used some choice words, and made us all feel REALLY dumb when we answered a question.  Luckily we all have decent self-esteem or we'd be in trouble.

And sometimes Tommy is funny and we look super casual in pictures... That's the goal, apparently.

Our field trip today was really cool.  We made our own pitas, lentil soup (Which we were all probably a little reminiscent about after Turkey Lurkey...) and we did all this over our fire that we built with our bare hands.  And when I say we, I mean that I actually didn't lift a finger in the whole process.  But gee the people who helped did a great job!  It was super cool to see how people lived life back then.  That's one of the coolest things about this study abroad -- we have hands on experiences about the topics we are learning, and it makes us feel that much more connected to these people in the bible and understand why certain things were hard.
All of these things helped us feel like we were living in Bible times.  Except for the fact that it didn't feel like we were in the bible at all.