quick update

my internet time is waining (sp?) quickly, so here's the short scoop:
i made it into i s r a e l and am hanging out in Jeru. It was rainy today and i was on the bus last night so i took a nap. After a very long border crossing in which no one believed the truthful answers to their questions, i barely made it through. They told me they weren't going to let me in. Any idea how hard it is to help someone make sense of the fact that i have been to s y r i a , don't have a cell phone, studied in the middle east, but am from iowa and had a college degree that has nothing to do with the mid. east or politics, AND when they absolutely demand that i have an occupation and i tell them, "farmer?" they get even more confused. needless to say, i had more time than they did and i could have waited them out all day...i won :) their gov't is probably reading everything i write now though,

Next time you should believe poor little Iowa boys crossing the boarder - hear me? i didn't lie to you!

so that's that. it was fun. i'll be here for a few days i think and then head back to cairo with a stop at dahab (on the red sea) before i fly to istanbul.

my time is out. i will write another small story about this place another day.
goodbye