Finals

We hit day 100. Its hard to believe. 100 days in the holy land (technically minus a couple for Egypt and Jordan). This big marker was our last two finals. Now the classes are done. Our grades are fixed. We no longer have the ever-hovering cloud of GPAs and classes looking us over. A few of us are even graduated now. This was their last final for their last class. Now they are off to the big wide world with no limits on where they go or what they do.

But for now, what do you do with five days left in Jerusalem? We have fast sabbath to look forward to. Sunday I’m taking a tour of the city from a real tour guide (who works for the UN or something like it) Monday we will tour the last week of Christ’s life. Tuesday we will walk the Via Dolorosa and end it all.  Wednesday is a last hurrah to run around the city and do… whatever you do on your last day. Then we have a farewell dinner and at 3 am the first 29 of us will leave. I will spend Thursday wandering the city once more. I don’t know what I will do. Come 7 pm the rest of us will pack up too and find our way to the Ben Gurion Airport and on our way back to whatever part of the country we came from. I’ll arrive in Salt Lake around 10 am on Friday.  A few hours of overcoming jet lag then life will begin once more.

On such wheels spin the cycles of our lives. The end of one course marks the beginning of the next. Let the future come forth.