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.