two paths diverged in a yellow wood....

1. americorps

2. teach english in:
a. alex (egypt)
b. turkey
c. korea

3. stay in NB and work at stop n shop or some other such job

4.

5.

im spending all my time thinking about this when i should be doing my hw.

had the worst nightmares last night!

first, i ate a sandwich with turkey meat on it that had gone bad
then, my glasses broke
then, i had to sit in the back of a car with a really fat girl.

ive never understood the fascination some americans have with british accents

but ohmygod, southern accents are soo sexy!

i feel like craaaaaaaaaaaaap!

I was distracted from what the speaker was saying by the intensity in the room. Everyone was angry, everyone was proud-- the Arab guys draped in keffiyehs, the girls in hijab, the few Zionists who dared to show up, identifiable by their yamakahs or by the long black/denim skirts peculiar to conservative Jewish women. The tension was in no way eased ( Read more... )

i dont have any stories to tell anymore.

LAME.

the middle drags on forever
but the end still comes too quickly

khalas.
back in the USA.

last incoherent update i promise. its just that im going home tomorrow and i havent had any chance to process my thoughts really through writing. ive been talking to tareah a lot about it. im really glad she came and visited me. but it kinda makes it harder to leave cairo, because i have to say goodbye to her as well ( Read more... )

Don't expect a proper entry until I come home. My environment isn't conducive to writing. I'm always in net cafes these days. My shift key is broken so I'm going to stop using capital letters right now if you don't mind. some guy is talking way too loud in some asian language (not japanese) over the sound of celine dion singing: "when you touch me ( Read more... )

trying to perfect the art of using the internet in 15 min or less. difficult. my bff tareah is here, and i am having a great time. i was so lonely for the past weeks. israel is being retarded. hamas is being retarded. i watch too much al-jazeera. im tired. im going home soon. im reading one of my heroes memoirs in ARABIC. aghhhhh. amazing. i love