December 2011
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2011: The best year in the history of me
If you had told me on December 31, 2010, that I would be exactly who I’d always wanted to be by the end of the coming year, that every dream I held dear would become reality, I wouldn’t have believed you.
If you had told me that I would have spent almost four months of my life living in the Middle East and learning more about the world than ever before, I would have shrugged in...
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Hebron and the Aida refugee camp in Beit Jala.
This is not what you learn in Sunday School.
No one shows the burnt houses, the stone demolished to make way for settlers’ roads. No one shows the juxtaposition of Jews and Palestinians on opposite sides of a shared street - one a picturesque gated community, one a dirty, broken mess of buildings. “Little Israel” is familiar but so out of place, a Jewish enclave encroaching on...
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Just got back from Hebron.
I still can’t decide whether I want to cry or vomit, and I need to go write before the experience escapes me. One of the most important days of my life by far.
… I meant to say more than that in this post, but now I don’t think I’m capable.
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"When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome...
I took a page out of Barney Stinson’s book yesterday and suited up. Good life choice. (Ugh, I’m such a DC girl, being so in love with my blazer…)
For a day that shouldn’t have been so great, yesterday was actually pretty wonderful. The sun was shining, I bought oranges, looked super hot (and then forgot to GPOYW it), resumed being that snarky back row kid in class, ran a...
Ben Does Life.: Get Excited: The 2012 Do Life... →
bendoeslife:
Excited to announce the 2012 Do Life New Year Challenge.
While maintaining a little surprise for the people who join, here is a little information on the 12-week challenge.
Starts next Monday, January 2nd.
There will be a new theme launched each Monday with a challenge for the week.
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wheeeeeeee!
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I want so badly to believe that there is truth,...
and I want life in every word to the extent that it’s absurd.
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Holidays in the Holy Land
Just got back from spending Shabbat/Hanukkah in Jerusalem and Christmas in Bethlehem, and since my head is still spinning a bit, we’re going to bullet it. Not in any sort of order. Sorry.
Old Saudi Arabian/Palestinian Arab shopkeeper telling us Joseph stories in Hebrew
Rain. Lots of rain. And cold.
Seeing Kayla in Bethlehem?! AU contingent in the middle of the West Bank what?!
Being in...
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That moment when
you turn on your laptop to give your 15-minute, 25%-of-your-grade presentation on Russian media coverage of the North Caucasus, only to find that three of your slides have mysteriously disappeared…
…guess I’m wingin’ it?
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koleliana:
Kol HaOlam Kulo, Gesher Tsar Me’od,
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Russia shooting: Dagestan journalist Kamalov shot... →
A gunman has shot and killed the founder of a newspaper that reports on corruption and police abuses in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan.
Gadzhimurat Kamalov was hit by a hail of bullets outside the offices of his newspaper Chernovik late on Thursday, in Dagestan’s capital Makhachkala.
Another journalist who served as the highest example of why I do what I do, and was...
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Loooooong day.
Rolling bullets at it for now (seriously, though, why am I talking like Ben Davis):
Spent most of the day hanging out on the border with Lebanon
Chilled with the IDF guys who patrol the fence
All-you-can-eat falafel restaurant. Enough said.
Gazed upon Syria for a while and enjoyed the call to prayer
Learned how to properly taste wine at the Golan Heights Winery
Got free apples/pomegranate
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ohnewsroom:
“Swearing is my second language for the newsroom.”
Another one of THOSE days
where suddenly you realize that it’s 4 pm and you haven’t left your bed other than to make a sandwich, and there’s a list about 50 items long of homework and reading and research that you should probably be doing, but… feeling your brain melt out of your ears just seems so much more productive than doing anything worth a GRADE.
I think I may need caffeine now.
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Ceremony today will formally end Iraq war →
BAGHDAD — The Iraq war is set to officially end Thursday, with Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta flying into Baghdad to attend a ceremony formally wrapping up the U.S. military’s 81 / 2-year mission in Iraq. The ceremony effectively ends the war two weeks earlier than was necessary under the terms of the security agreement signed by the U.S. and Iraqi governments in 2008, which stipulated...
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Anonymous asked: I think you are beautiful and awesome and DEFINITELY not fat. Kinda cute too ;-) and I think maybe you can guess who this is :-D
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ethanklapper:
Whoa
spokeydoke:
WMATA...
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Dear Tumblr,
I owe you a lot of reporting on life. Mainly:
Why Jerusalem will always feel like home
The trials and tribulations of completely falling off the fitblr wagon
Finding this guy in the airport last Monday -
MY BEST FRIEND GOT MARRIED AND I NEVER SAID ANYTHING LEGIT ON HERE?!
And of course, some general rambling about how I apparently only have four weeks left in Israel. When did THAT happen?
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