maximum playdate

i wish i could post pictures right now but its all i can do to publish a post from tunisia

please excuse the lack of punctuation at the moment but i am using a tunisian keyboard
whiich means that the keys are in the position where you would find thm on a french keyboard but there are also arabic characters on the keyboard

if you thought control shift was complicated then how about alt gr

i have just given up punctuating

i go the medina nearly everyday
cell phones computers the internet and medinas
what a world

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this is the ultimate playdate
i am definitely refilling the well

OOT

When one is trying to get ready to leave the country for six weeks, one is apt to miss a blog post or two.

I don't really expect to be blogging for the next six weeks, since I am going to Tunisia for a study abroad program. I am taking writing classes and, as Julia Cameron calls it, "refilling the well." One long play date I'm giving myself!

Wish bon chance and bon voyage! I hope to blog once or twice while I'm there, but I'm not counting on finding a computer.

Next step

So, now that my semester is over, what do I do?

Oh, I know that I'll be on a plane to Tunisia on Saturday, where I am going to take a travel writing class, a technical writing class, and Arabic.

I'm really looking forward to the travel writing class. I think I will tolerate the technical writing class, and the Arabic class is just down right necessary, since I speak neither Arabic nor French, and I am going to be spending six weeks there. The plan to learn a little Arabic and a little harmonica before I left for Tunisia never really panned out, with so many other things on my plate this semester. Will I look stupid carrying a harmonica I can't play all the way to Tunisia? It's small. I think I'll just tuck it away in a corner of my suitcase....

So, to keep in the writing habit, I am a) going to blog daily and b) return to the young adult romance novel that I'm working on...that I have been working on for a long time now.

I've gotten some good feedback on what I've written so far, but I got stuck. Not just because I got so intensely wrapped up in classwork and grading, but I got stuck because I haven't done enough scene planning. So I'm going to take that page out of Elizabeth George's book and work harder on planning the scenes that need to be written. They are in my brain, but I haven't pinned them down yet.

Before I leave you tonight, I want to leave you with words from Czikszentmihalyi's Finding Flow:

"The world is absolutely full of interesting things to do. Only lack of imagination, or lack of energy, stand in the way."

Done!

Wow. This semester is finally over. I've turned in all the work that is due...except, that is, my website that I've worked on with Jess. It's not due until Thursday, but I it's finished. We just have to give it to our professor.

My last assignment was a research proposal for my literacy studies class. I don't think I succeeded at doing the assignment. I don't think I ever got my brain wrapped around the assignment. But I don't care anymore!!!! I'm finished, like it or not.

My next adventure is to Tunisia, where I'm doing a study abroad program. I really don't think I'll be able to blog there every day, but since I'm taking two writing classes there, I think I'll stay on track with the writing every day.

I leave on Saturday. Mucho to do before then.