Number 522

Today I did something that I have been dying to do for quite awhile now. I got on a random bus to see where it would take me. Although it sounds quite terrifying, I had an idea (I thought) of the layout of our city, and I have enough language to figure things out. Plus, Justin was with me, and he has a great sense of direction. So, I went on my first real adventure!

The first thing that you need to know is that I still have not found the end of the city! As far as you can see, there are buildings and city! This place is vast, yall!!! I really miss grass and trees, and personal space!

Anyhoo, the unexpected thing I discovered on my adventure was the city wall. You know how you read about, like, city walls, and stuff in the Bible. Well, they are real! And they are amazing.It is amazing to read about places and people groups in the Bible as well as the history books (my required reading) and be living there! Even better than that is to see stuff that was there when Bible folks were there! Very, very cool!!

Next time I hop on bus Number 522 I am going to get off and investigate those walls. If I haven't mentioned it before, they are cool. Our bus wandered along the old city wall for several kilometers. We went through the wall at one point, and those things are thick! Eventually we reached the end of the line and had to get off the bus.
As you can guess, we had no clue where we were. But we just hoped on a familiar tramway and headed into the old part of the city- still on "the other side."









We decided to climb to the top of the tower in the center of this picture. I'll have to download the pictures, and tell you about it tomorrow. Right now, I have homework to do. There is a penalty for exploring during the time set aside for language study. YUCK!! I hate having homework again!!!