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Saturday, March 25, 2006
Friday, March 24, 2006
The Sky Is Falling!!!!
I love Seattle weather. I truly do. But there are times when I wonder just what is going on up there. Today was one of those days. It started out nice, with bright blue skies and warm spring sunshine. Five minutes later it's pouring down rain. Keep in mind that the sunshine and blue skies are still in effect. Another five minutes later, it starts hailing. Hard. Hard enough to make me wonder if I'm going to need a new windshield. Lighting and thunder makes me think that going outside to see if my ghetto-mobile is all right would be a bad idea. In a matter of minutes there is an inch of slush on the ground, and the hail stops. The backyard has temporarily become a winter wonderland. Being the mature individual that I am, I promptly starting throwing slush balls about. About ten minutes later, the robins are flying around and the deck is steaming from the sunshine. Ahh, spring in Seattle.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Blog Numero Uno
So here it is- my very first blog. Which of course leads me to wonder just what I am going to write about, and why anyone in their right mind would want to read this. So I better tell you- hopefully there will be some "you" and not just me talking to me- exactly how this started. A long time ago, Craig and Betty had a daughter in the wonderfully rainy city of Seattle. Flash forward two decades and said daughter was a slightly neurotic and verbose graduate of Franklin High School and was moving on to South Seattle Community College. Strange and wonderful things ensued, chief of which was a trip to the Middle East.
My trip to Israel during the summer of 2004 was the most challenging and wonderful thing that I have ever done. I have never felt in my life so alive, so out of my comfort zone and mostly just so happy. Keep in mind several things- first, I had lived in the same house all of my life, and had only made brief forays in Canada and Mexico. Secondly, I knew as much about the Mid East and Israel as your average non-Jewish, non-Arab American twenty something would, which is to say I knew nothing. I made some mistakes, a few more friends, and best of all had a blast. During my summer in Israel, I traveled all over the country but stayed mostly in Northern Israel doing an archeological dig at a place called Tel Hazor (if you are looking for a great dig in the holy land, that's the dig to do). For a girl from Seattle, the freedom of being parentless and unknown in a foreign land was a heady thing. As soon as I got home, I started plotting my return which leads us into the why of this blog. During my trip, I wrote everyone back home emails about my adventures, and they went over pretty well. When I finally figured out just how I was going to get back to the Middle East (I am using the pretext of finishing up my bachelor’s degree in Cairo to go back) I was encouraged to start a blog about my experiences. Although I am not leaving for Cairo until late August, I figured that it might be a good idea to get started on this thing before I left, as I will have better things to do when I get there. So there it is, my reasons and life in a nut shell. For those of you who know me, and wondered exactly what I was thinking, this is your way to find out. For those of you who don’t know me, be glad, and for those you who know me and won’t admit it- well, you’re a stinker. As always, may the force be with you-
Sarah M
My trip to Israel during the summer of 2004 was the most challenging and wonderful thing that I have ever done. I have never felt in my life so alive, so out of my comfort zone and mostly just so happy. Keep in mind several things- first, I had lived in the same house all of my life, and had only made brief forays in Canada and Mexico. Secondly, I knew as much about the Mid East and Israel as your average non-Jewish, non-Arab American twenty something would, which is to say I knew nothing. I made some mistakes, a few more friends, and best of all had a blast. During my summer in Israel, I traveled all over the country but stayed mostly in Northern Israel doing an archeological dig at a place called Tel Hazor (if you are looking for a great dig in the holy land, that's the dig to do). For a girl from Seattle, the freedom of being parentless and unknown in a foreign land was a heady thing. As soon as I got home, I started plotting my return which leads us into the why of this blog. During my trip, I wrote everyone back home emails about my adventures, and they went over pretty well. When I finally figured out just how I was going to get back to the Middle East (I am using the pretext of finishing up my bachelor’s degree in Cairo to go back) I was encouraged to start a blog about my experiences. Although I am not leaving for Cairo until late August, I figured that it might be a good idea to get started on this thing before I left, as I will have better things to do when I get there. So there it is, my reasons and life in a nut shell. For those of you who know me, and wondered exactly what I was thinking, this is your way to find out. For those of you who don’t know me, be glad, and for those you who know me and won’t admit it- well, you’re a stinker. As always, may the force be with you-
Sarah M
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