One of the most incredible aspects of being on this trip is the fact that our classroom is our surroundings and environment. Everyday when we wake up in the holy land, in Israel, it's not just the notes that we take on a page that are beneficial to the lesson of the day. Even just waking up to a view like no other, knowing that years and years ago this land was inhabited by our ancestors, is a feeling that will never get old. For me, learning is so much more than listening to a lecture and writing notes. The way I learn is by experience, by visual pictures and images, feelings and hands on activities. To go on our Tiyulim and be standing in the same area that an ancient building structure was made, looking at the same massive rocks that were put in place thousands of years ago, but that still remain in tact today, brings the classroom to life. In the sense that almost everything I have been learning, (especially being derived from the Tanakh) happened in Israel for the most part, when I'm able to look up from a text that I've been reading and see the actual, tangible place being described, it makes learning that much more meaningful.
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