Turkmenistan

Currently, this blog will be used for my thoughts, pictures, and excerpts from letters I send home from Turkmenistan. I will be in Turkmenistan from October 1, 2008 until December of 2010. You can send me letters and packages using the address to the right.
Many thanks to my family for posting updates to this blog as I will most likely have limited internet access over the next few years.

Sunday, August 20, 2006

A few other blogs to check out

Here are the blogs I promised. The first is a blog from a lebanon resident and the second is a compilation of several people in northern israel. I have also added links to several wikipedia articles regarding the situation in the middle east.


http://cedarseed.livejournal.com/

http://israelnorthblog.livejournal.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict

Monday, August 14, 2006

Nearing end of summer

It has been a while since my last post and for that I apologize.

Summer has proceeded at a wonderful pace. I have spent the majority of it working at Essential Industries in Merton, WI.

The past two weeks I spent in Germany and Holland and it was thus far the highlight of my summer. If you ever make it to Cologne, Germany walking up to the top of the Cologne Dome is the most amazing and awesome thing I have done in a very long time. The view is georgous and well worth the painful hike up.

A ceasefire was finally declared between Lebanon and Israel and I think it is well past time for this. I have found a few blogs that I think are terribly interesting reading regarding the conflict. I will post them tomorrow or the day after for further reading.