SEATAC International

They took my toothpaste.

I love flying. I hate airport security. I think that Seattle has an especially abrasive set of security personnel, but I've heard that Israel is worse so it's a little soon to start complaining. 6 o'clock is just too early to get yelled at.

I mean really, what's the difference between a full size toothpaste tube and 2 travel size ones? I feel like as long as it fits in my ziploc bag I should be good to go. And of course the replacement travel size tube that I bought on the other side of security cost more than the big tube they made me throw away. Ridiculous.

Luckily there is not a shortage of Starbucks in this airport. Philadelphia here I come!

So I'm going to Israel

Shalom!

My plane leaves in just over 8 hours, and I'm busying myself doing some last minute reorganization.

The next few weeks will be full of a lot of adventures. I'm studying abroad via the University of Washington as part of a program entitled "Unveiling Dynamics in Israel: History, Politics, Law & Technology." We're pretty much traipsing around the country meeting with prominent social and political activists, leading intellectuals, legal activists, Parliament members, judges, ministers, NGO leaders, and hi-tech entrepreneurs. I think there are about 20 of us going, along with two instructors, a travel guide, and a bus driver.

I most likely won't have time to email everyone that I promised I would on an individual basis, so I would kind of like to use this blog as a compromise - I see it as keeping in touch on a more massive scale. I'll try to update on a fairly regular basis, and at some point I'll get the picture link at the top hooked up to something. Don't click it now though, I don't even know where you'll end up. Of course I'm saying all of this without actually knowing what kind of time I'm actually going to have, so we'll all just have to wait and see.