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TII #6: Delirious from Diapers

Posted in Life on the Outside, TII, tagged , , , on August 18, 2009 | 18 Comments »

Today was a serious TII moment during our Food Distribution.  This week we are giving diapers instead of food (I still am undecided as to which is more important to them).  We were supposed to get the delivery yesterday, but alas…it never came.  Today the delivery-guy said, “For sure I am coming…2:00.”
2:00 is good; it [...]

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TII #5: Moving Day, Its like a Circus…

Posted in Life on the Outside, TII, tagged , , , , on July 20, 2009 | 13 Comments »

I definitely had a TII moment yesterday, when my “moving guy” came to move my stuff to the new apartment.  I was expecting a little truck or even a flatbed-type vehicle…this is what he described it as on the phone.  To my surprise when I walked outside to meet him, I saw the vehicle that [...]

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TII #4 Missent to Thailand

Posted in TII, tagged , , , on June 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Yesterday my roommate noticed an envelope in someone else’s mailbox addressed to me.  We grabbed the letter and on the front was a stamp saying, “Missent to Thailand.”  
Thailand??? Thailand??? Yeah, thats a clear mistake for Israel!!!
Then I noticed the date of the sent stamp from Winterset, IA…April 21, 2009.  2 months ago?? It took [...]

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TII #3: Snake Robot

Posted in In the News, TII, tagged , , , , on June 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »

When you are a tiny country, completely surrounded by enemies who want nothing more than to wipe you off the map, you have to come up with BRILLIANT ideas such as this…

Its a robot snake, able to get images from areas where human soldiers cannot reach. Awesome!
UPDATE:
It seems as though the [...]

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TII #2

Posted in TII, tagged , , on June 2, 2009 | 10 Comments »

Setting: 11:00 am. Nationwide air-raid siren alert drill. 
Some of you live where there are tornado drills, earthquake drills, or maybe hurricane drills….but I live where we have bomb/air raid drills.  This morning there was a scheduled one so people knew where to go and what to do.  Everyone is supposed to go to the nearest [...]

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TII #1

Posted in TII, tagged , , , on May 14, 2009 | 10 Comments »

TII = This is Israel.  I stole it from my time in Africa.  A very popular saying down there in TIA, This is Africa (made popular by Leo in Blood Diamond, but everyone else had been saying it for a long time before).  I digress.  Anyways, I’ve decided to adopt and restructure the title for [...]

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