It is nice not having regular classes. Took a short GIS course. Got really sick from "Kibbutz Bug" and lost my many years-running puke-free streak. Went to Sinai and chilled out in a Hoosha. Met up with another group and stayed at a fancy hotel - sat on the beach, visited a Solid Waste Processing Facility, snorkled with fishes, got sunburned, took care of sick friends, attended Belly dancing show at Hilton, spent lots of Pounds and supported the local economy. What's up next? We shall see.
Night in old apartment in Jerusalem. Passover with Sephardi Ortho family friends/staying at apartment of someone I was friends with in first grade. Activisty seder Sunday night. Monday night Nazareth with roommate and Arava folk. then, who knows? I want to somehow fit in Tel Aviv, Harashim, Haifa, and Hebron. And then there's that little thing called schoolwork....
I can't beleive 1 month from now I will be home. I am coming back to Israel for a month and then am home for the summer, but it's weird. May 17 I fly back to the country I haven't seen since June. What's changed? catch me up! I've never been gone this long before....is it bad that I am not homesick?
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Thursday, April 07, 2005
It's that time again. Oy....
Feeling overworked and overtired and overwhelmed right now. Regular classes end Friday, and then a GIS course and thena few weeks of spring break. Have no idea what I'm doing. Options: Gaza, Jerusalem, Hebron, up North, Sanai, Jordan. Probably will become some combination thereof.
Also have no idea what I am doing next year, which for whatever reason is starting to cause some anxiety. I am set until mid June. That 2 whole months away. I am just starting to freak out about it.
Options: Some good NGO/IO in Jerusalem. DC. Back to Jordan for more Arabic. Travel. Stay here and work on NATO conference? My independent study advisor is finally out of the hospital, so I will finally be able to seriously start working on NATO stuff, and figure out if it is realistic to stay or not. Do I even want to stay? I keep going back and forth about it. If I am wanted maybe I will think about it differently than in the abstract.
I should be writing about Shabbat and the Environment and answering questions about Poop on the Kibbutz. And then conference planning. It may be a long night/early morning…
Open to suggestions.
Also have no idea what I am doing next year, which for whatever reason is starting to cause some anxiety. I am set until mid June. That 2 whole months away. I am just starting to freak out about it.
Options: Some good NGO/IO in Jerusalem. DC. Back to Jordan for more Arabic. Travel. Stay here and work on NATO conference? My independent study advisor is finally out of the hospital, so I will finally be able to seriously start working on NATO stuff, and figure out if it is realistic to stay or not. Do I even want to stay? I keep going back and forth about it. If I am wanted maybe I will think about it differently than in the abstract.
I should be writing about Shabbat and the Environment and answering questions about Poop on the Kibbutz. And then conference planning. It may be a long night/early morning…
Open to suggestions.
