Wednesday

~ Highlight of the Day: Getting 100% on my Arabic final! Yes! ~

 

We were scheduled to take our Old Testament final this morning at 8am. After a very high stress evening, our professors were inspired to postpone the test till tomorrow morning.

 

It's like getting a snow day. In Jerusalem.

So now I'm studying (well, blogging currently. . . but I will be studying. . . ) for Old Testament all night long, and studying for the Field Trip final as soon as I finish OT tomorrow. Don't ask me when I'm writing my three papers. . . I have no idea.

 

 

So what seems like ages ago I was out in the city, passing the Western Wall to head up to a gate where we could access the rampart walk, when I passed this:

 

 

Guys. Someday I will own one of these. Same color and everything. Just you wait and see!

 

 

This is a sycamore fig tree (Ficus sycomorus) , like the one Zacchaeus climbs to see the Savior in the New Testament. Apparently the fruit is edible. . . but when I opened it up it looked buggy. So I didn't eat it. I'm not much inclined toward bugs. But it looked exactly like a tiny fig, so I'm assuming it tasted somewhere along those lines.

 

 

And this is Plumbago europaea. . . related to the plumbago I worked with all summer!

 

Well, as much as I love blogging about motorcycles and plants, I need to pass Old Testament, so I'm off to study. . . wish me luck!