this weekend we traveled to aleppo and palmyra - saw a bunch of ruins, visited a few citadels, a castle, the souk in aleppo, the burial valley with tomb towers and underground tombs in palmyra... some pretty cool stuff. lots of pictures (how am i ever going to organize them?).
tomorrow is my last day in damascus. my goals are to get a falafel and a chocolate covered chocolate waffle. :)
right now i am in my friend joel's hotel room watching al-jazeera's coverage of egypt, tunisia, and yemen. it is so crazy to be in this part of the world right now! being here as unprecedented history is occuring. so cool. and i can envision it now - what the streets look like, how the people act when they are in their home, their mosque or their church. ooh, other interesting thing. al-jazeera's other breaking news was that the ex-president of pakistan (musharraf) has an arrest warrent out for him - apparently he requested the assassination of benazir bhutto (the former prime minister who was running for president). and guess what? there was significant US support for him too... i am starting to understand what linford said at the beginning of this trip:
'people who travel to the middle east for a week write a book. people who travel to the middle east for a month write some journal articles. people who live here have nothing to say.'
and he also said 'it is like a puzzle (fitting all the pieces of what people say and believe together). everyone has a point and a lot of them make sense - but they don't fit together! and what do you do with that? everyone has a point...'
i am feeling like i have no more words left in me to type; i think it is time for me to sleep.
tomorrow is my last day in damascus. my goals are to get a falafel and a chocolate covered chocolate waffle. :)
right now i am in my friend joel's hotel room watching al-jazeera's coverage of egypt, tunisia, and yemen. it is so crazy to be in this part of the world right now! being here as unprecedented history is occuring. so cool. and i can envision it now - what the streets look like, how the people act when they are in their home, their mosque or their church. ooh, other interesting thing. al-jazeera's other breaking news was that the ex-president of pakistan (musharraf) has an arrest warrent out for him - apparently he requested the assassination of benazir bhutto (the former prime minister who was running for president). and guess what? there was significant US support for him too... i am starting to understand what linford said at the beginning of this trip:
'people who travel to the middle east for a week write a book. people who travel to the middle east for a month write some journal articles. people who live here have nothing to say.'
and he also said 'it is like a puzzle (fitting all the pieces of what people say and believe together). everyone has a point and a lot of them make sense - but they don't fit together! and what do you do with that? everyone has a point...'
i am feeling like i have no more words left in me to type; i think it is time for me to sleep.
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