Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Sorry I have not blogged in a while, things have been really busy here. We went on our Jerusalem Approaches field trip yesterday, but I thought before I blogged about that one I should tell you about Benjamin.
Benjamin, oh Benjamin.......how do I even start?
If someone had told me how this field trip would have ended up I dont know if I would have beleived them, let alone gone on it!
Febuary is the rainy season here in Israel. And already we have seen alot of rain! I cant even tell you how much I miss the sunny California beaches!
Anyway, rain creates mud. Wet, sticky, gross mud.
So on Wednesday morning we wake up early to go on our field trip and it is raining! Now this wouldnt have been so bad, but our trip that day was all Juean wilderness!
Our first stop was Gezer, which is about 35 min outside of Jerusalem by the Ajialon Valley. That may mean nothing to you, but here in Israel valley's are not fun places to be when it is raining.
Our professor Todd usually has the bus park at the end of this long road off the hightway at Gezer and the group walks out to the site, but our bus driver Roshe said he could take us down the road right to our site! How sweet!
We looked around the site for about an hour and then met our bus at the bottom of the road where he had just dropped us off, little did we know that the next time we got on the bus again it would be two hours later and on a differant bus.
First, he tried to go up the hill with everyone in the bus, which didnt work. Then he tried it with everyone off the bus, which didnt work either. Then we tried putting sticks and rocks over the mud (which was about 6-8 inches deep) to help the bus over the mud. You guessed it.....didnt work! So then we dicided we would take another route to get back on the highway, but low and behold there was mud on this route also.
Our most desperate and final attempt was for our guys to p
ush the bus out of the mud. They would push it for about 10 feet and then it would get stuck agian, so they would push it for another 10 feet. Sadly, since the highway was still a mile away this strategy just wasnt going to work.
We boarded the bus for the final time to grab all our stuff and head for the highway where a new bus would meet us.
Since the new bus couldnt come and meet us where the old bus was stuck we had to walk, for about a mile, in the thickest mud I have ever seen in my life! People literally got stuck in the and had to be pulled out without thier shoes. There were probably a dozen or more people waking barefoot.
After about 30 min of this we finally made it to the road and into our new bus. Last I heard our poor bus driver was stuck in that mud until late that night.
My shoes may never recover........but it was pretty much the most awesome trip ever!
Benjamin, oh Benjamin.......how do I even start?
If someone had told me how this field trip would have ended up I dont know if I would have beleived them, let alone gone on it!
Febuary is the rainy season here in Israel. And already we have seen alot of rain! I cant even tell you how much I miss the sunny California beaches!
Anyway, rain creates mud. Wet, sticky, gross mud.
So on Wednesday morning we wake up early to go on our field trip and it is raining! Now this wouldnt have been so bad, but our trip that day was all Juean wilderness!
Our first stop was Gezer, which is about 35 min outside of Jerusalem by the Ajialon Valley. That may mean nothing to you, but here in Israel valley's are not fun places to be when it is raining.
Our professor Todd usually has the bus park at the end of this long road off the hightway at Gezer and the group walks out to the site, but our bus driver Roshe said he could take us down the road right to our site! How sweet!
We looked around the site for about an hour and then met our bus at the bottom of the road where he had just dropped us off, little did we know that the next time we got on the bus again it would be two hours later and on a differant bus.
First, he tried to go up the hill with everyone in the bus, which didnt work. Then he tried it with everyone off the bus, which didnt work either. Then we tried putting sticks and rocks over the mud (which was about 6-8 inches deep) to help the bus over the mud. You guessed it.....didnt work! So then we dicided we would take another route to get back on the highway, but low and behold there was mud on this route also.
Our most desperate and final attempt was for our guys to p
ush the bus out of the mud. They would push it for about 10 feet and then it would get stuck agian, so they would push it for another 10 feet. Sadly, since the highway was still a mile away this strategy just wasnt going to work.We boarded the bus for the final time to grab all our stuff and head for the highway where a new bus would meet us.
Since the new bus couldnt come and meet us where the old bus was stuck we had to walk, for about a mile, in the thickest mud I have ever seen in my life! People literally got stuck in the and had to be pulled out without thier shoes. There were probably a dozen or more people waking barefoot.
After about 30 min of this we finally made it to the road and into our new bus. Last I heard our poor bus driver was stuck in that mud until late that night.
My shoes may never recover........but it was pretty much the most awesome trip ever!
posted by Corie @ 12:54 AM
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1 Comments:
now that was a good blog. good to see you back in action! also good to see you guys getting a little dirty :)
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