continents in days The Harding University in Greece (HUG) program took their first trip to Egypt in several years in spring 2019, visiting three continents in a matter of days. Junior Lizzy McHan said the group traveled from Israel back to Greece for a short period of rest, and then traveled to Africa for a sixnight cruise on the Nile River in Egypt. She said everyone on the trip seemed less tired than expected after traveling so far in only a few days. "I look back, and I'm like, 'I don't remember feeling that tired,"' McHan said. "I just remember being so excited to see what we were going to see that it didn't even matter." Tom Ritchie, assistant professor of kinesiology, attended HUG in spring 2019 and said the trip to Egypt was not added until late fall 2018. He said this was probably why the Israel and Egypt trips landed so close together on the schedule. "Before we even left, Egypt was not on the schedule, so we had a special meeting where Dr. Hopper told us we were going to Egypt," 44 HUG spring 2019 visited Israel, Greece and Egypt in three days. Ritchie said. "But that put it at the end of the program, so I think that's what caused that confluence to come about." Junior Rachel Bible said the semester had interim directors, Jeremy and Diane Myhan, who directed the HUG program several years prior to the trip. Bible said the Myhans commented on how HUG had changed since their last time there. "They mentioned one or two things about what it was like to be back after they hadn't been there for so long and how much more stable the Egyptian government is now," Bible said. "They were kind of surprised at how much they remembered about Egypt specifically." While in Egypt, the group visited the ancient pyramids. Some from the group climbed the pyramids. Junior David Walker was part of this group. "While we were in Egypt, we had the unique opportunity to climb and go inside the pyramids," Walker said. "To be able to climb something that was built 800 years before Abraham came to Egypt in the Old Testament absolutely blew my mind."
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