Our first day off
Not much to report from Thursday. It was the first day of our weekend so we slept in a little bit and relaxed. During our weekend, we’re allowed to do whatever we want so some people went to places like the Dead Sea or Nazareth but I decided to just stay in Nablus. Shamekh offered to take us down to the Old City to do some sightseeing and shopping. He was running a bit late in the morning because the Israelis had invaded his neighborhood the night before, surrounded a few homes and arrested five of his neighbors. Kinda puts being late because of traffic in perspective…
We walked around Nablus for a short time so I only took a few photos. I managed to buy two keffiyehs, though. After some walking around, we met a few other volunteers in a restaurant downtown for lunch.
After lunch, we returned to the palace and just relaxed for a while. At the end of the night, we walked to another cafe for some arguilah and drinks.
I’m in the process of uploading a video from Wednesday night at the Turkish bath. I don’t know if it’s gonna work given my limited bandwidth but, in the meantime, here are some photos from Thursday:
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June 20th, 2008 at 7:36 am
What’s a “keffiyeh”?
On large uploads… you’re probably already doing this, but just the same… don’t use web-based utilities if you can avoid it, then seem to have much greater difficulty with slow links (because HTTP is stateless, perhaps?)… direct file transfer protocols seem to handle things better… fwiw…
June 20th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
A keffiyeh is the black and white scarf Palestinian scarf. I’m sure you’ve probably already seen me wearing one.
As for the uploads, I am using the Flickr uploader client. Unfortunately, it still uses HTTP but it is better than going through the site itself.
Thanks!
June 24th, 2008 at 7:10 am
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