Movies from the Old Days..

I hear that Arkansas and some other places are getting lots of snow. Well, not to rub it in, but I walked outside today in basketball shorts and a cut-off shirt. It was so sunny and beautiful! Mrs. Griffith drove Danielle and I to the ruins of the Artemis temple-- it's only about 10 minutes down the road. It was a neat area, with an old chapel from the 16th century dedicated to St. George. There was a small stream that ran down the hill from the church. The temple had some columns left and near it were the ruins of the oldest stoa in Greece. Hard to believe dinky Porto Rafti has the "oldest" of something. We made our powerpoint and we're set for our presentation.

I played some basketball outside today and bumped the volleyball around with Lacey and Lauren. Fun, fun! :-)

Tonight after supper, we had to watch the movie Masada in preparation for our trip to Israel. It's a 3-part movie that we have to watch each night. I was confused for most of it, but toward the end I began to piece together that the Romans and the Jews didn't like each other. The poor Jews-- everyone was always picking on them. It's so hard when you're used to 2008 special effects in movies to adjust to a movie that was made like in the 70s. Whereas war scenes in movies like " Troy" and "300" brings tears to my eyes, I feel guilty for laughing in these. There was this one scene where this Roman comes in, yells at a Jewish man and picks him up and throws him. Wowzers-- that really took care of that. Haha.

I am looking forward to Israel--- I'm sure it will be a life-changing experience. We are praying for the situation there and hope that recent events won't keep us from going. I am trying to be patient with these movies and look at them as a learning experience-- since I do get to actually see the places that are shown. So the Jews have British accents. Who cares that the Romans talk like Americans? It's a learning experience. Haha. Not everyone thought that I guess-- Jarrett started snoring really loud-- it was so funny!

Tomorrow we start back to class after a long absence. Joy! :-) Love ya'll!

P .S. I wanted to apologize for not putting more pictures up on facebook for those of you who check. It's a very frustrating process that I have about given up on. One solution is to look at my tagged pictures. Another solution is to look at my friend Noah's web site. He is a really good photographer and I am putting his name out there for ya'll. His web site is haonavy.uber.com! Don't put the "www" or it won't work. Go to his photo blog and check it out. Maybe it will give you a good idea of what we're seeing.

P.S.S. Funny moment: Pawpaw, I read your comment about you wrestling the students and thought it was Mimi because it was under her name. I laughed and laughed picturing Mimi taking on some college guy. But then I read til the end and was relieved to find that it was you. Haha.