A Little Context

OK, for those of you that I haven't had the opportunity to brief regarding my plans for the next several months, here is a quick breakdown:

Gillian (my girlfriend) is currently exploring the country of France on a grant she was awarded by her alma mater, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She has been travelling throughout the country since early October and seems to be having a wonderful time. Various reports tell me that I am missed and that she is looking forward to seeing me soon.

On November 1st (that's this upcoming tuesday...) I will hop a plane to England where I will then hop off the plane and onto a train (and possibly an automobile) and meet up with Gillian and her aunt in Peterborough for the last fox hunt before they are outlawed. We'll then travel back to Stamford where we'll spend a week in the hospitality of Gillian's family.

Wait! Stamford, you say? Why would I travel all the way to England for a fox hunt just to turn around and come back to my home town of Stamford, CT you ask? To these inquiries I respond: Stamford, England. Yes, that's correct. Gillian's family lives in the sister city to our home town. Odd don't you think?

Anyhow, after a wonderful week in the wilderness of the rural UK, Gillian and I will spend an expensive week in London, the heart of England and the recipient of most of its bad weather. If anyone has any great ideas as to things we should do and check out while there, please comment or email me. We're looking for ideas. As of right now, I'm hoping to spend a lot of money on a show or two. Maybe go see Rob Lowe in a production of Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men?

After our "vacation" it's on to Israel. We've been adopted by an organization called ORT which builds and operates schools worldwide. We'll most likely be placed in the city of Karmiel at the Braude College of Engineering. What we'll be doing there I haven't the faintest idea but as soon as I know more I'll post it up here.

So, once in Israel we'll spend about 6 months there working for ORT and hopefully seeing the country and learning more about the culture than either of us have had the opportunity to before. It's odd to feel so connected to a place I know so little about. If you have any questions, please leave a comment and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Hope things are good in your individual worlds. Take care.

The beginning of the beginning...

Ah, my first blog. I'm so excited to begin blogging. I am officially now a blogger. Blog-gone-it this is fun! Blog, blog, blog...

How does one begin their first flirtation with sharing his life's itinerary and expressing his views and opinions with a vast and uncalculated public? It is no easy task. I almost feel obliged to catch up the online literary world with what's happened to me thus far in my 22 years. It doesn't seem fair to just plunge into who I am and what I'm doing without providing some context and backstory. But alas, I am lazy and don't have enough faith that the 22 year history of a complete stranger would be interesting enought to wade through. I guess I'll just have to address my target audience of people who already care about me and my whereabouts and simply ignore the rest of you.

As I am about to embark upon the longest and most awesome experience of my post-college, pre-career existence, I invite you to join me. No, you can't have my extra bag of airline peanuts and I most certainly will not allow you to stowaway in my suitcase, but please, check-in with my blog now and again to see how I'm doing and maybe catch a glimpse of some pics I take along the way. Oh, and the information can flow both ways. Comment on posts and feel free to email me and let me know what's happening in your neck of the woods.

So those are the basics of how this is supposed to work. Whether that happens or not depends on whether you read the crap I post up here. Hope it all goes according to plan...

--- dek