Field Trip Tuesday March 30th to the ROM

Scarcely have we completed our Sugarbush Bash, when it's time for yet another field trip, our long-awaited visit to the Royal Ontario Museum. Here's what you need to know:

1. Departing from the Southbound Platform of Sheppard Yonge at 9:30 a.m.
2. Meeting at ROM Main Entrance at 10 a.m.
3. Tickets are limited. If you haven't given me your name, please email me by Monday morning.

Something to think about: What, if anything, has the ROM to do with our theme for next week? We'll be discussing the topic of Canadian Celebrations--Good Friday and Easter. Feel free to post your answers!

ANSWERS:

1. To begin with the ancient Egyptians were obsessed with the afterlife. They mummified people and animals, built monuments like the pyramids, and even wrote instructions in preparation for death and judgment. They were right about death and judgment. Unfortunately, they didn't get it all right, and many a brain was discarded, and countless well-appointed royal tombs were emptied by grave robbers.
2. The Greeks were pretty obsessed with the afterlife, too, in terms of making statues for themselves--if they could afford them. Named and nameless busts adorn the Greek Civilization section of the ROM, but none can compare to the meek Saviour, who laid down His life at the cross, and His followers, mostly unremarkable peasants. Their names outlast, outnumber, and outrank those of Thucydides and Menander, but the mainly nameless, headless princes and princesses in the gallery. Who we remember or name ourselves after are Jesus, Paul, Peter, Stephen, John, Matthew, Luke, and even Philemon and Apphia, who left no bust behind for us but only their faithfulness to God and their love for their neighbour!