You Are a Seeker Soul
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2006 was a year of endings and beginnings for me. I left Palestine, finished my MA (finally), moved away from DC, ended a quasi-relationship and learned to step back and let my family take care of themselves. I moved to Afghanistan, landed my first job that is actually in my career and really moved outside of my comfort zone in a lot of ways, both ( Read more... )

Hi - just checking in. I'm in Kabul. Where are you? How are you? Fill me in...

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We found some Turkish coffee in our flat that had been left by the last inhabitants, so today M and I invited some of the other students over for coffee and biscuits. Luckily, the cupboard also contained the special metal coffee pot with the long handle and lots of Turkish coffee cups. Our coffee party was after we had registered for our courses ( Read more... )

After months of planning and worry and excitement I have finally arrived in Birzeit. I’m sharing a flat with a very nice, very British woman named M, who worked with ISM last summer and is learning Arabic because of her politics and also because she has a half-Palestinian grandson. In other words, she is super-cool ( Read more... )

Spent the morning with my father at Datapulse helping him get ready for a big IT exhibition. Lujein came along, but she was surprisingly well behaved, so it was pretty cool. We all ate lunch at home, then I worked on some of my plans for traveling to Palestine. Apparently I am not able to call Israel from Kuwait - which makes it very difficult ( Read more... )

Here I am in Kuwait, once again. After a brutal summer of studying Arabic, I feel like I haven’t improved at all. In fact, I would say I feel less confident about my Arabic now than I did when I left Middlebury. It is very frustrating. I have however, maintained my ability to tune out Arabic beautifully - this being a skill I perfected when we ( Read more... )