Prologue

So here i am. It has been a while since i have seen or spoken to a number of you so i thought i would catch you up. I graduated from high school, then college and found myself at Denver Seminary. Just two days ago I finished my last final for my masters degree and though you might think i am graduating, you would be mistaken. I have a thesis/project yet to do hopefully this summer/fall, but that all depends on my proposal being accepted in the next few weeks. I do have one last class to take, which is why you are reading this to begin...

24 hours from now i will be sitting in Chicago with a group of people i don't yet know- on our way to Israel. The last class i have is an intercultural immersion so i tracked down 'the most interesting city' and it turns out to be Jerusalem. The class is run by Jerusalem University College which there is a link to on the left. So that is where i will be for the next month keeping myself busy with wicked thick coffee, little pieces of food with funny names, maps and looking at some really really old stuff.

As i spoke to a number of you about this trip the idea came to me to keep an online journal. Not only is a journal required for the class, but i figure this will allow any of you who are interested in my adventures to know quite a bit about what i am doing and where. And for those of you whose patience is already waning, you can skim and i wont even know it. My hope is to put an update every so often, with any luck you will be able to see pictures and read all the hilarity involved in going to a country that speaks several languages before english.

I dont know i have anything else to let you know about at this moment. Any thoughts and prayers are coveted as always- health, travel, safety, learning, finding really cool places for dessert and like. For now though i need to start packing.

cheers, k

ps. i am well aware that memoirs (especially blogs) are the most self indulgent and arrogant literary genre, however i firmly believe my life is funny/painful/ironic enough to keep you entertained while i throw in clips from Israel.