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Our Captured Soldiers
Until they are released - dead or alive - Israel will not rest.
My heart goes out to their families. Hello, Shalom, Salam, Bonjour!
Besides being on crutches which is not so much fun in my life, I tend to keep myself busy with writing. Not that you would actually know that from my horrible habit of not uploading new blogs, but rest assured, I do write on a fairly consistent basis. Now, because of my injury, that seems like all I have time to do! 😊 and 😞
Anyhow, one of my newest writing endeavors involves writing for
Instablogs which is a concept based out of India where many bloggers or "Citizen Journalists" come together and report on different news items in the world. The tagline is that
Everyone has an opinion.
Now if that isn't the place for me and my writing, then I don't know where it is. Which speaking of, I love Travelblog here but it seems to me like I should perhaps move my blog to a more wider network such as
Blogger or
WordPress? I guess I must contemplate this a bit more...or I could just cross-post and stay here as well.
ACK! I think too much...
Ok, back to Instablogs. As a Citizen Journalist (CJ) I am responsible for writing daily an
2nd Lebanon War
Some of the massive destruction this country endured the summer of 2006. article on anything that I want but mainly a focus on politics and society in where I live. Being a dual-citizen, this of course give me free range for both Israel and the United States, which to be honest is enough fodder to fill up many, many blog pages on the vast internet.
Instablog's newest addition to their already impressive arsenal of tools is the
Global Report , which takes the top news headlines from around the world and puts it together in a daily show. Certain news stories and their respective CJ's are chosen to do short 60 second voice-over clips and it's all put together into a narrated news reel, complete with video, music and pictures to illustrate the articles being talked about. Just like you would see on TV. It's rather fascinating actually, and I'm pretty proud to be a member of this project.
You can hear my latest addition to the Global Report
here, as well as my latest opinion article on the Israel and Hezbollah Prisoner Swap
here!
By the way, sorry for heavy linkage going on within my blog here - I'm getting used to it writing for various other people. Please do
Don't Worry...It's not Loaded
This was me in 2004. I'm pretty sure the soldiers broke some type of law by allowing me to handle their weapons.
But it did spark my interest in wanting to serve the IDF - minus the pink shirt. bookmark and check out Instablogs however on a daily basis - you'll see a bunch (alright - 5 so far!) of articles written by me, as well as talented people from all over the world. You may leave comments, star articles so that they are moved to the front page
(hint hint - this is also how I get paid - if my articles are accepted by the general community, I get paid a certain amount of money!) and see other citizen's opinions of world wide news; not just newspapers and other sometimes biased media.
Also up on the writing block is
Online Casino Reports in which unless you're rather slow - this is an online forum for gamblers to meet and read news articles, opinion pieces, etc. I'm not a gambler myself - in fact, I'm too cheap to gamble because I barely have enough money to pay my rent, let alone waste it on cards and such, but the sad fact is that a lot of the freelance writing jobs here in Israel are for online casinoes. I'm not particularly interested in this, but I am interested in that they pay my bills!
Firefighting: Some updates
View in Lebanon
Courtesy of yours truly...this was taken at an army outpost I was in looking into Lebanon. if you may.
* I have spoken with the Fire Commissioner himself of Israel and he assures me, no...
guarantees me a position in a fire department here in Israel. He didn't say where and he didn't say when, only that he is in arguments with the Ministry of Finance to allocate enough money to fund an additional 135 new firefighters salaries - of which I would be one of those new ff's.
Now, not to be cynical or anything but this is now the 5th person to "guarantee" me a position in a fire department, and yes, even though it is the fire commissioner himself (the grand poo-bah if you will) I'm not holding my breath. Plus, if I have to wait on a Ministry of well...anything....in Israel to get up off its tukus anytime soon and spend money, I may as well be 80 years old and no longer able to fight fires. We'll see what happens.
* It has come to my attention that I am being considered for a military contract position for firefighting in Antarctica for the upcoming season. Yes - that big block of ice that has the South Pole
Tel Aviv Aerial Ladder Truck
Oh my baby...I will be on you soon. and penguins all over it place at the bottom of the Earth. No, I am not crazy.
Ok..well maybe I am crazy. But this job will be specifically for firefighting (which is my career and passion if you haven't noticed) and it pays between $600-650 USD/week which means that 1 week of pay down there = 1 month of rent here. It would be a 6 month post and an adventure for sure.
I just filled out the 2nd step in the application process after they tell you they're interested, so perhaps this is a good sign.
Alright...enough for now. Till next time. להיטרות!!
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