Rise

Title taken from the song by Eddie Vedder.

Such is the way of the world

You can never know

Just where to put all your faith

And how will it grow

Gonna rise up

Burning black holes in dark memories

Gonna rise up

Turning mistakes into gold

I had planned to get my presentation about the Viking settlement done, but I decided to procrastinate until tomorrow, for the weather was too gorgeous to stay inside the house. Instead I took a few photographs. Here are two of them.

Lüneburg, Germany. April 2010.

Last Friday, while on the way from university to another institute where we had a dendrochronology workshop (for those who don't know much about archaeology: tree-ring dating), me and a buddy from uni read this article about the Sar-El volunteer programme and we're really thinking about taking part, either this summer or the next. Sar-El aims to support Zahal, the Israel Defense Forces, and you can participate even if you're not an Israeli. On the weekends there'll be organized trips to Jerusalem and / or Tel Aviv. Just like my fellow student Alex, I've wanted to visit Israel for a long time and this seems to be the perfect opportunity to do so and support the only democracy in the Middle East in its fight against its terrorist neighbouring countries. The country has got a rich history, there's loads and loads of Bauhaus architecture in Tel Aviv, and the girls are beautiful. Awesome.

I hope you enjoy a nice weekend.

- Dom