So, first of all, I just wanted to talk about the work I've been doing lately. Yesterday, spent about 5 or 6 hours cleaning rocks and gravel out of a partially-dug cistern. This consisted of one guy filling buckets with rock, me in the cistern pulling the rocks up using a pully system, and a third guy on ground level taking the rocks/dumping them in the trailer/throwing the empty bucket back down to us. It was tough work but a nice change of pace from digging holes around trees. Then today, we planted a field of grapes so within a year or two, they should be doing well. Then, I went back to digging holes around trees. But I handled to horses today which was cool, it's a mother and a daughter; if you bring the mother anywhere, the one-and-a-half year old daughter will follow. They both kind of have an attitude though so we can't stand behind them. We also keep getting visitors every day, today their were three groups, there's one here now (a group of Germans interested in what's going on around these parts).
Now for the interesting news, there is a possibility that Israel will be going to war. Now I know you've all heard of the flotilla that the Israeli military attacked, you know, the one going to Gaza. Well, Iran wants to try this again, only this time, the convoy will have an Iranian military escort. Israel most likely won't take this very well and could end up attacking the Iranian convoy - thus potentially leading to a war with Iran - thus potentially leading to a war with many of the Arab countries. I'm not too worried at the moment but I did contact the American Embassy here to let them know I'm an American citizen and I'm in the West Bank, so, "please keep me updated." They replied saying that they'll actually reply in three business days, so that's cool.
So that was just a quick update, I should be getting back to the Germans right now, singing 'round the campfire and all that good fun. Ma salaama.
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