"They missed that physics lesson"

Here I am in Ramallah - it seems like it will be far easier to start posting, rather than writing several versions of the same email back home. So, here we go.

It's still raining and cold here - I'm playing a game to see how many times I can wear the same two sweaters over and over again. I'll let you know how that pans out. Meanwhile, the rain did much to disperse whoever it was that was shooting down the street. As Tareq said, "They do that when they're angry, they do that when they have something to say...they shoot up in the air. What goes up, must come down? They missed that physics lesson." There are so many things that someone here might be angry about that we could only guess, standing well away from the windows (in case something came down at an angle), what it might be today.

It's been much easier to move in here a second time - no need to adjust, as it's already been done before. Things are looking up - I found real milk (as opposed to the Buttermilk Saga of earlier this week), a shop I can walk to, and just might have something to do this weekend (apart from writing the Great American Novel, which is the default right now). I've also been introduced to a new fruit. It's like a grapefruit, but about 1.5 times the size. No one knows whether it has a name in English, but we're wagering that it's not a big seller in the US.

I'll be back with more when something happens - as you might have noted, life's not all that spectacularly interesting. But stay tuned - you never know...