Because it was the last day of Rosh Hashanah, today was a little bit different than usual. We went to a Baptist church this morning. It was the first church service we have gone to on a Sunday morning; normally they are on Friday and Saturday nights. The speaker was the same man who spoke to us from Bethany Bible College about reconciliation a couple of weeks ago. After the service we walked back to school and had lunch on our own. The afternoon ended up being quite interesting....
We were to report downstairs at 1:30pm to begin Southeastern's version of the Amazing Race. It wasn't quite the same as the Amazing Race, but we tried. We were split into groups of four or five and given a list of ten places that we had to find and have our picture taken at. The rules were as follows: The pictures had to be in order of 1-10, each picture with all five group members got you a subtraction of 2 minutes of time, and whoever had the best picture at each site got a subtraction of 1 minute on the time. Each group left the campus in five minute increments. The problem was, the list of places wasn't just a list but rather a list of clues. We had to figure out what the places were. Some groups messed up on the very first site and therefore lost quite a bit of time. Our 10 sites ended up being as follows: 1) The Jaffa Gate: This is where the British came through Jerusalem 2) The Church of Dormition: This is where Mary supposedly ascended into heaven 3) The Western Wall: Where Jews go to pray for the peace of Israel 4) St. Mark's Church: Where the Last Supper took place and St. Mark actually lived 5) The Dome of the Rock: The Muslim Holy site located on the Temple Mount 6) The Damascus Gate: Where poor and rich could walk into the city 7) The Via Dolorosa: We had to stop at one of the stations of the cross; we stopped at station III 8) The Cardo: The Roman road that is still intact in places of Jerusalem 9) Christ's Church: The first Protestant church 10) The New Gate: Where Christians could walk through without being persecuted.
My team made it to all of the stops....even though we took quite a few wrong turns. In the end though we tied for first out of our six teams. Our time ended up being around an hour and a half. (Obviously we ran quite a bit of the way) It was a fun day and everyone is quite proud that they now know their way all over Jerusalem!
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