Updates, links, and general small tokens of fun

A couple of items of housekeeping . . .

1) For those of you interested, my brother Ben is spending this semester in Rwanda and Kenya volunteering and rounding out his pre-med skills. His stories and experiences are much more interesting and real than my own, so I encourage you to check them out at:

http://benhuntley.blogspot.com

And at the very least, he wrote a couple entries about his visit to Damascus before coming here, and it's definitely worth seeing what his fresh eyes have to say about life in Syria! (the above picture is us in the countryside of Aleppo, soaking up the ridiculous amounts of history tucked within these stones)

2) Owais, who is much more on the ball and technologically savvy than myself, has been kind enough to load up pictures from this semester (Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Pakistan, etc.). You can access them at: http://community.middlebury.edu/~ogilani/