September 28, 2000

A little rain goes a long way.

Weather update: it rained! Hard! The first day of rain since our arrival. Things are already looking greener.

We also received an email from a friend in the States asking us how the clashes between Israelis and Palestinians were affecting us. Truth is, we don't have much more insight. Zababdeh is, in many ways, so isolated that our connection to Peace Process news comes - ironically - from CNN. We are thankful that we are out of the heat of conflict, but we do hope to find ways to be better informed of the political situation, from sources closer to the events than Atlanta.