"Project" Blog for 2006

TODAY WE WERE UP AND READY TO LEAVE AROUND 7AM- BACK TO THE AIRPORT IN DAR- WE NEEDED TO GO BACK TO KILIMANJARO AND FROM THERE TO ARUSHA- A NORTH EASTERN AREA OF TANZANIA- THIS IS WHERE WE WOULD STAY FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK. ARUSHA HAS A POPULATION OF ABOUT 3 MILLION, AND […]

It’s 7:00 AM and I’m sitting in the Dubai International Airport waiting to catch a flight to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. We said goodbye to Han yesterday evening in Bangalore and have been flying all night. We’re on our way to meet Carrie for a 2-week run in Africa including Tanzania and South Africa. We’ll […]

Today I left for Africa! Unbelievable! I can’t believe the time has arrived! I’m incredibly excited! I’ll be flying out of Mpls and heading to Amsterdam. From there I fly to Tanzania- first to Kilimanjaro, and then on to Dar Es Salaam, the capital city.
I SLEPT MOST OF THE WAY TO AMSTERDAM- NOTHING TOO EXCITING […]

Bangalore has been great to us. After our whirlwind trip through Israel and Palestine its been really great to get to India. I’ve spent many years studying music in India and it always makes me happy to get back. Bangalore is a crazy and congested place like all the large cities of India but the […]

Joel, Dominic, and Carrie are a few months and eight countries into this enormous project. In Palestine now, I’m ten days and two countries into it. I feel like I finally found my rhythm. We left Maya and our friends in Israel on Monday for Jerusalem, where we spent a day fighting the urge to […]

Sunday was a very new kind of experience for me. We traveled with a group of Israeli women who are human rights activists to visit the highly militarized, occupied Palestinian areas near Nablus. I have never seen anything quite like the complex mixture of walls, fences, towers and checkpoints that exists throughout this region.
Maya, our […]

We’ve been on the ground for a few days now and it’s taken some time to get up to speed. We were all so grateful to have some down time in Minneapolis recently but things are now in full swing here in Tel Aviv. Han Shan joined us in the airport in Newark on Monday […]