time

Having had time to sleep, watch cartoons, and eat pizza, I have been able to sort out my feelings about all of this (well...kind of).

There are so many different emotions to feel in this case. I wasn't planning on leaving after two weeks, so I wasn't ready for it. I wasn't packed, I didn't take all the pictures I wanted, I didn't buy gifts for people like I was planning, I didn't steal any pottery...and there was no "saying goodbye" to the church or the Sea of Galilee. In many ways, there was just no closure to leaving.

But...it's not like we were only there for a few days...we did have two wonderful weeks. In two weeks, we had the chance to dig and swim and get dirty and clean pottery and see Jerusalem and even go to the pub. And I suppose I'm "luckier" than the other students on the trip, considering I was there last year.

It was such an amazing place and such an amazing adventure, that it's hard to leave so unexpectedly as we did...I might've stayed if I had been able to. I don't regret going and I will most definately get back someday...it's hard to have it end this way, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't worth going at all. Hey...at least none of us signed up for just the last two weeks!

(Well, Jim, Jim, Bryan, and Bill signed up for those two weeks...but they're still there, after having arrived Saturday just about an hour and a half before Tiberias was hit...how's it goin, guys?!)