Daily schedule

Awake at 4 a.moo. Make coffee, eat snack of peta bread, peanut butter and jelly. All 90 of us in the expedition on two buses at 4:40 a.m. Drive 15 minutes to the Tel Megiddo. Climb up to our work site. Set up tent cover. Get out tools. Start to work. Dig. Put dirt into buckets. Dump dirt into wheel barrels. Dump dirt into old dig squares. Drink water. Early and often. (Today I wore my 70 oz. Camelback. Refilled it 3 times.) at 8:30 a.m. walk off of tel to park area for dairy breakfast of bread, tomatoes, boiled eggs, fruit of some kind, corn flakes. 9:15 a.m. climb back up to work area and get back to it. 11:00 a.m., much needed break, as team members beginning to show signs of fatigue. 1: 15 p.m. clean up work area. Lock away tools. 1:30 p.m. walk down and board buses back to kibbutz. Eat lunch in nasy, dirty, sweaty clothes. Meat lunch. Free time. Swim. Shower. Rest. 4:15 p.m. pottery washing. (Much pottery collected. Pottery sherds just lying around on the tel. Pottery was like the plastic bottle of ancient civilization.) 7:00 p.m. Dairy dinner. Crapes, cottege cheese, salad, tomatoes. 8:00 p.m. Evening lectures by world class archeology scholars. After lecture I come over here to the kibbutz office and wait for someone to finish with their computers so that I may borrow and write. It is now 10:15 p.m. and I am headed to bed. Tired, but happy to be having this excellent experience. * To be on the tel and look over to my left to see a clear view of Nazareth. (I never knew that Nazareth was built on a hillside.) Slightly to the right of that Mt. Tabor, where Jesus was transfigured. To the right of that Mt. Gilboa where Saul and Johnathan died. To the right of that Jenin in the West Bank. As we are working all day in one of the most fought over areas on the planet (Josiah, the last righteous king in the lineage of David, was killed here by Pharoah. (Read 2 Kings 23:29-30.) jets of the Israeli Defense Force are taking off from a base nearby and heading with rockets loaded under their wings for the West Bank and elsewhere. Seems almost cruely appropriate. This area is still being defended by the armies of waring groups. * Am off to bed. I will not edit this. Sorry for mistakes. Thanks everyone for your prayers and your love.