Know who you will call when you get to Israel. Have phone numbers of family and friends and at least 20 shekels Israeli money to make a phone call.
1) “Hotline for Migrant Workers” http://www.hotline.org.il/english/index.htm
75 Nahalat Binyamin Street / Tel Aviv, 65154, Israel / Tel. 972.3.560-2530
2) Elisheva, an organization for the support of refugees org: 050-7519558
3) [...]
The last two days I was in Cairo I made trips to all the bookstores I could find and bought enough arabic books to stuff my backpack. Now I’m starting to translate them for practice and ran into one problem sentence.
How do you translate:
كان أخوه وأخَوَاتُة البنات يكبُرونه بِعدَّة سَنَوات
My best guess is:
He had brothers, [...]
Ideas are born as unwanted children. The needy bastards live to be shared, mulled, kicked around, with the vain hope of someday being refined into a coherent philosophy.
This will be the deep end of the pool, where I throw my children and see if they can swim.
It will also be a repository of code [...]