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Just a few pictures from my time overseas. More later. Its a real pain in the ass to upload pictures to Photobucket on dial-up!
All those who have ever lived and worked here!

View of the front of our house

Our living room/bedroom/library/etc... with sleeping mats

An Operation Dove member waves hello to America

A view into the house from the front door

Our kitchen

Another view of our kitchen

Our one electricity source, where we charged our phones, cameras, laptops, etc, in the evening during our 4-6 of power- not exactly up to code!

On Eid Al-Fitr, the kids congregated at our house to play, and drew and colored all sorts of masterpieces, which tickled them to have displayed on our wall

My favorite- what a ham!

Sifah says "bring it on!"

Sifah in a more angelic pose

Kids playing in abandoned car that had been trashed by the IDF

Kids hanging out at Beit CPT, playing backgammon while waiting for their friends and siblings to finish English homework

Caves where the residents of Tuwani lived for hundreds of years, up until about 60--70 years ago. Many scholars believe Jesus was born in a cave much like this. Now used in the village for storage, or for animals.

Abandoned stone house, which the village lived in until about 30 years ago, before building cement-block houses, like ours.

The regional grammar school. Children from a bunch of surrounding villages come here, total of about 200 kids. The kids from Tuba attend here, the ones whose escorts we monitor every day.

Sheep!

View of the much-disputed clinic (now open, if they could just get a doctor here regularly) from the CPT front yard.

Jaffa Gate, 7 am, before all the shops opened

Damascus Gate, East Jerusalem

More to come, periodically.
*"Beit" means house. Saying "Beit So-and-so" is like the French way of saying "Chez Paul", or "at so-and-so's house".
All those who have ever lived and worked here!

View of the front of our house

Our living room/bedroom/library/etc... with sleeping mats

An Operation Dove member waves hello to America

A view into the house from the front door

Our kitchen

Another view of our kitchen

Our one electricity source, where we charged our phones, cameras, laptops, etc, in the evening during our 4-6 of power- not exactly up to code!

On Eid Al-Fitr, the kids congregated at our house to play, and drew and colored all sorts of masterpieces, which tickled them to have displayed on our wall

My favorite- what a ham!

Sifah says "bring it on!"

Sifah in a more angelic pose

Kids playing in abandoned car that had been trashed by the IDF

Kids hanging out at Beit CPT, playing backgammon while waiting for their friends and siblings to finish English homework

Caves where the residents of Tuwani lived for hundreds of years, up until about 60--70 years ago. Many scholars believe Jesus was born in a cave much like this. Now used in the village for storage, or for animals.

Abandoned stone house, which the village lived in until about 30 years ago, before building cement-block houses, like ours.

The regional grammar school. Children from a bunch of surrounding villages come here, total of about 200 kids. The kids from Tuba attend here, the ones whose escorts we monitor every day.

Sheep!

View of the much-disputed clinic (now open, if they could just get a doctor here regularly) from the CPT front yard.

Jaffa Gate, 7 am, before all the shops opened

Damascus Gate, East Jerusalem

More to come, periodically.
*"Beit" means house. Saying "Beit So-and-so" is like the French way of saying "Chez Paul", or "at so-and-so's house".
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And thanks for the kind words! Its really quite the adventure, to be honest. Amazing people, amazing places. Its fucked up, that's for sure, but.... still, so beautiful.
I will give you a call soon.
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I was told to talk to someone called David at the UK end of your operations, but never retrieved a number for it. If i can steal any fantastic ideas from you t'would rock.
In addition, you rock, lots. For all this *waves hands at piccys*
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So I've been out of touch... What's the latest with the 4 CPTers (?) in Iraq? good or bad?
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Old city Jeruselem is one of my favorite places along with the medinas and casbashs of Fez, Marraketsh, and Tahgiers, Morroco.
Email me your # again. (I hear you are very entertaining:). I could use an update of travelles past.
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sheep!
lunch sunday good, I think. did you find your wallet?
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the doorman remembered me!
let me know what time for lunch, or a ballpark?
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ballpark