Tanzania is a GO!!!!

Excitement!

less then five hours ago I purchased my ticket to Tanzania! I will be spending six weeks doing an archaeological  field school through my University. I am beyond excited. As I mentioned before I love archaeology, so when I was presented with the opportunity to work abroad I jumped at the opportunity. For my family and friends who would like to help finance my trip you can contribute below by clicking on the donate button. I also have a list of items I have still yet to purchase.

Thanks to all who made this possible.

What I still need:

• light weight backpack for field equipment
• personal first aid kit
• Benedryl
• travel pillow
• hiking boots
• sneakers
• pocket nife
• protective hat
• reading book lamp
• adapters for electrical outlets
• anything else you can think of let me know?

Good Reads!

When you read a good blog post that naturally brings a smile to your face then it is necessary   that you share it. The blog post below from TheFreshXpress is one such post. It was a great read to go over as I ate my pita bread stuffed with roasted bell peppers and tempeh last night.

And exert is below, but you gotta (yes gotta) read the whole post for the full effect.

“The very nature of a black man is to love a black woman. I’ve come to realize it after that experience. He can love any woman, but not to the degree he can love a black woman. I state this with no reservation and remorse for those it might offend. For that brief moment I loved her hair, because it was the very hair that grew out of my own head. I loved her skin, because it was the same skin that covered my flesh. I saw her as the mother of my children, because I knew when I looked at their faces I wouldn’t be able to see my half or hers. I would only see us. At that moment I loved myself more because I was looking at everything that makes me amazing. I could never love a woman of another race that way”

What Can We Do But Watch?

Complacency runs rampant by youth in America, me included.  I believe that instead of standing against inequality my generation is complacent with it and furthermore I believe many of us are desensitized to the role inequality has globally, nationally, locally, and individually. My generation has so many various media outlets, that the inequality happening throughout the world is constantly being forced down our throats. As result the destruction has become the everyday; as if it is something that cannot be changed or stopped. So when a man sets himself on fire in Libya and groups of people are arrested for treason in Zimbabwe for meeting up to watch videos of the revolution occurring in Egypt it does something worse than fall on deaf ears; it falls on ears that do not believe they can change the situation. These events fall on the ears of complacent people who believe that the way the world works is the only world there is and anything outside of that is irrational.

So what can we do but watch as the Middle East and the continent of Africa are being swept over (or is a cleansing effect) by a sea of revolutionaries. People demanding for a change far beyond that of what Obama preached during his campaign. I read the newspaper and tack online news sources of the events shaping our world and I wonder if the stand against oppression can reach its hands across the ocean and hit the shores of the US.

Ramble over…