Entries from July 2008

July 28, 2008

You Know Your Israeli If…

If you have never spend adequate time with Israelis or spend a significant amount of time in Israel then there are a few things that you don’t know about Israelis.
The first area of life where you could consider yourself Israeli would be concerning cleaning, that is, if cleaning is the proper word to use.  Israelis [...]

July 22, 2008

Oil

I think that I am finally coming to a realization of the true problem that is taking place when it comes to Oil.
Recently, we have found out that there are billions upon billions of barrels of untapped oil that are just laying out in the depths of the ocean which surrounds the US.  Also, we [...]

July 22, 2008

Photographer?

No, I’m really not a photographer.  As much as I would like to have high megapixel pictures to remind me of how cool I am, it just doesn’t happen.
I’m thinking about hiring my brother to follow me around for a year to document my life. I wonder what the price is for a personal photographer?

July 16, 2008

Jordan

Not the Micheal Jordan that played for the Bulls, but Jordan the country. 
Last weekend I was planning on heading to Eilot, which is a city in the south of Israel that sits on the Red Sea and my plan was to take the midnight bus on Thursday night and then hang out there for a couple [...]

July 10, 2008

A Traveler

The life of a traveler can be seen from many different angles.  And right now I am seeing it from a more relational aspect that has caused me to think more about frienship in general.
As a traveler you meet people who will be in your life for a short amount of time and then they [...]

July 8, 2008

An Aqueduct

Today we went on a ‘tee-ouwel’ (excursion in Hebrew) to the old Aqueducts that brought water from Mt. Hebron to the temple.  The aqueduct was cut right through the rock and was at a very small decline until it reached the temple.  The engineering is pretty amazing and the aqueducts were used for a long [...]