shadowsong26 | i think i see my house from here!

1/16/12

we played backwards pictionary in class again today :D it's nice for reviewing vocab words. even if some of the pictures are utterly incomprehensible (back to the board, non-dominant hand).

after class, me, ke, ka, je, ja, b, h, d and s went to the citadel, which was pretty cool. it's on a high point in the city--not the highest, i think there was another hill we could see that was higher, but you can still see basically the entire city from there. plus, roman ruins and ummayyad ruins, and a couple of late-bronze-age tombs (that you couldn't go into, but you could see the entrances to them). there was also a museum that covered archeological finds in jordan from the bronze age to the end of the ummayyad caliphate, which was pretty awesome.

highlights...well, the one problem with the site was that the roman ruins...kind of sucked, from an exploring point of view. a couple of columns and pieces of a statue they think was hercules, so it's called the temple of hercules. which prompted an argument with je over whether or not hercules counts as a deity (he was worshipped as one, he had temples all over the hellenistic world, even if he was technically a demigod, i say that counts). i dunno, maybe they would've been more impressive if we hadn't explored jerash just two days ago. but the ummayyad complex was fascinating, and is apparently one of the most complete ones still around.

the museum was absolutely spectacular, given how small it was. unfortunately, i didn't get to see much of the early early stuff, since i started going through it in the wrong direction and then had to leave :< they had some really neat stuff from the...very late stone age, like 6300 bce? i think that's still stone age. but i barely got to see that.

((also, one of the timeline signs had constantine's conversion in " ". which i found hilarious. because i'm dumb that way :D ))