Special twist last post

I am only writing this last entry because I stumbled acorss my ISP on the Internet:

http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/643/

So there it is, for the world to read. I was pretty excited to find it there, right next to Yoshi's!

I am doing well at home. The blog missed the entire Spain and Portugal trip-extravaganza-reunion of last month, but I'll put a few pictures here just so it can be recorded in the blog chain-of-events.

Now I am here in Mevasseret, writing from the couch with Maddy right next to me. I have spent some percentage of the last 3 weeks I've been home trying to find something to do for the 4 I have left. I've met with the deputy mayor for the Environment, worked with VolunteerJerusalem by writing a database of Jewish environmental organizations, met with Pearl at SPNI, and will probably end up teaching English to Ethiopian girls in the Mevasseret absorption center and helping to write foresty curriculum for a Jewish-funded youth village in Rwanda. Special twist!


Mostly I am just looking forward to getting back to my last year at Brandeis, where I will ride my bike to my internship at Waltham Fields Community Farms, work on campus, finish my classes, and live for a whole year with my friends. Sounds pretty good to me.

Back in Hong Kong

This might be the last post for the blog for awhile, so I basically just wanted to leave the links to my two facebook albums full of pictures from the trip. I am back at the Hong Kong airport enjoying lots of free and fast wireless and all is very well. I cannot believe I will be home tonight! The semester is done, everything has been done, I am retracing my steps back home... and life is good.

Album #1: 3 weeks in NZ

Album #2: Christchurch or bust

New Zealand!

All is so very well in New Zealand! Internet is rough though and I don't have much now either, so I will just post a few pictures from the last few days. We started out in Christchurch last Friday, and have since then headed south to Lake Tekapo, Mt Cook, Dunedin, the southern scenic route to Te Anau, Milford Sound, Queenstown, and now Fox glacier. We have about 4 days to make our way back to Christchurch before my flight out all the way back to Israel! Everything is wrapping up, I cannot believe it. But I think we've done pretty well with Jimmy and Jah (our pre-named campervans) and this whole thing should wrap up on a high note. Here are pictures! See everyone soon!!

We are so very done

Bangalow week ended on a very high note. I finished my paper, I went to get it printed and bound, and Michelle, Susie and I had wine and free tapas at a restaurant in town. The paper is DONE! And it is great. Not only is it done, but we gave presentations the last two days, and mine went beautifully. The highlight of it must have been at the end, when Peter asked about setting up a Transition group in his area. Peter wants to start a Transition town. ha.

So that was the adventure of the last few days. Last night we went to the newly opened Earth N Sea pizza place to celebrate being dooooone, and it was great. Now in my last few days in Australia, I can really appreciate this life, the people who are in it, and everything that I have done. Which has been a lot. I cannot believe I found this project, I did it, and it is all done.

Oh right, this is a funny picture....one of the ways me and Michelle survived the winter nights in Bangalow. No but really, everything is great here and I am looking forward to the last few days of the program. Tomorrow we are going ocean kayaking as a group unless the weather is bad, and Wednesday we have a final group meeting in the morning, and a group dinner at night.


Thursday morning we leave for the airport! And that afternoon is me, Kendall, Epps, and Michelle's flight to Christchurch, New Zealand! Soon we may start talking about plans, or we may really be going in with two campervans booked and a general goal of making the loop around the island! I am very excited for what I think will be a really beautiful trip.

This is a ridiculous picture I had to add from Susie's house... why don't all phone books emphasize the 'hi' in white?? Good one Australia. Anyway... Internet has been a little rough in Byron this time around, so in case this is my last post from Australia.... everything is great here as this life is wrapping up, and I will write next from New Zealand (is there Internet in New Zealand?)!

Bangalow week

I am here in Bangalow week, with only a few days left to go until I turn in my paper and meet up with the group for the last few days on the program. I only have a week left in Australia!! And my paper is pretty much....done. 50 pages and it looks good. I have a few more things to put together here and there, but basically, it is done. I am quite excited, but I do have a few more days here in Bangalow to think about that.
So this is where I live. Michelle and I have been living very happily with yogasusie at her house (the old office of Sustainable Futures Australia) in the middle of an industrial estate, across the highway from fields of cows. Since we got here Thursday morning from Holy Goat, we have basically been sitting around and working on our papers.

Other adventures include walking along the highway 30 minutes to get to Bangalow village and wireless at Utopia cafe (current location), going to the Channon Markets, and starting to take Susie's yoga classes at night, across the parking lot in a room near the warehouses.


It is a beautiful area of the world here in Bangalow, and we are basically just enjoying where we have found ourselves again as we get through work retreat week. In the next few days, we'll finish up...everything.. and eventually find a way to print and bind our reports. Then Friday we head back to Byron Bay, our 5 weeks are up! Next Thursday in New Zealand, 4 weeks until home, 5 weeks to Spain!
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Mayyyy

I just wanted to update about life these days, but I have no new pictures since last time. I'll just add a few random ones I didn't post from Sydney. All is well with me. I spent most of my last couple days in Sydney at the state library, because I had to take advantage of being in civilization before I came back up here to nature. It was a very successful idea, and now I am at a really good point with my project (already 35 pgs written!) I also wrapped up Sydney time with a second-to-last-night cooking dinner & and a movie with Meg, and actual last night dinner out with Meg and Jenni. I walked around the city and went to the harbor one last time, and was overall just totally satisfied and happy with my two weeks in Sydney- two of the best this semester!

I left Sydney Sunday morning at 7am, and took a 12 hour train ride up to Casino. I made it to Lismore that night, where I met back up with Michelle and went to Margaret's house. It is so nice being back here, I'm really glad I decided to do this. It's almost like my house in Australia, and there is a comfortable bed and Internet and I am happy. Yesterday, we had a celebration breakfast at Mecca cafe, and played at Pacific Bulk Food Store, before spending a couple of hours trying to be productive at the library. We had dinner at Erica and Kendall's motel room (two girls on the program) and it was so great seeing them, and seeing how incredibly different everyone's experiences have been this month, and how totally satisfied that my experience was exactly what it was.

This morning we went to the car boot market with Margaret (a farmer's market where they just pull up their pick up trucks and sell out of the back of them). I had my last phone interview for the project, we had a fun lunch attempting to celebrate cinco de mayo (turns out the Magic Mexican restaurant closed last year...so we just had nachos at a cafe) spent another couple of hours at the library, and now are back home, about to cook dinner and hang around here for the night.

Tomorrow we head to Holy Goat, an intentional community in the hills nearby where Michelle stayed the last few weeks. There is a community dinner tomorrow night, and in the morning we'll get a ride to Bangalow, where we will be staying the final week of ISP, to finish up our reports.

The campervans have been booked for New Zealand, and so me and 3 others from the program -Alex, Kendall, and other Michelle- are on for driving around for 2 weeks in the south island! I am starting to get very excited for the plans of the future! I hope everyone is doing well, and talk to you soon.

The last days of April

The last few days have been really excellent. I took a ferry over to Manly harbor to interview two Transition people, and through that experience (the ferry part) got many, many pictures of the Sydney opera house as we sailed around it. I will add some of these to Facebook. I also walked across the Sydney harbor bridge (this picture here) which was great, and went to the Contemporary Arts Museum and Museum of Sydney. All in all, Sydney time has been a success.

Tuesday I took a train to Katoomba, a city in the Blue Mountains about two hours west of Sydney. From the second I got off the train, it felt like the mountains-- cold, crisp, smells like campfire and winter-- it was very exciting to be out of the city. Katoomba was so beautiful-- this picture to the right is of the iconic 'Three Sisters' rock that you can see from the outskirts of the town.

My friend Meg came to Katoomba as well, and we did a few hikes in the area, in addition to spending most of Wednesday at the Jenolan Caves. We went on a tour that left Katoomba at 11am, drove an hour and a half to get there in a van with a Spanish-speaking family and two Japanese couples, and then spent about an hour and a half in the Orient cave at Jenolan.


Not only where the caves incredible- the Orient cave is ranked one of the 10 best in the world- on the trip back, our guide Mark randomly took us to see this herd (?) of kangaroos that he knew grazed in a field nearby. How did Mark know this?

All in all, an excellent day. I was also in Katoomba (the main reason, actually) to meet a few people from Transition Blue Mountains. I met Clare and Jed -both great and very helpful- and went to an event the Transition group was hosting, a film about retrofitting homes in the Blue Mtns.
The movie was a little boring but I would say close to 100 people were there! I couldn't believe it! It was very inspiring to see what Transition could look like, and how people were intrigued and inspired by the practicality and hope of this concept.

I am now back in Sydney for my last few days here- I am leaving on the Sunday morning train and heading to Lismore! I think I will be going back and staying with Margaret for a few days, before heading to Bangalow with Michelle for the last week of ISP.

I have so many great pictures from the last week, but a bunch of them are not uploading to Facebook and it is very annoying. Once it starts working, I will add the link here. Hope everyone is doing well!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2076811&id=9803563&l=1190a33e12

The life rolls on

I have been in Sydney about a week now, and I am having such a good time here. I love this city, I love being able to do whatever I want while still on the program, my project is coming along fine, and I am so glad to be here. Meg and I have been all over the place. Highlights include the Art Gallery of NSW, Australia Museum, Paddy's Markets, hanging out with Jenny in St. Lenard's (a girl from the program), Glebe Markets, and just walking around the city in general. I am freeeeeeeeeeee......
As far as my project goes, I have already interviewed 5 people for it (that is half of my goal), done a good amount of background research, and have almost-set-plans to interview the other 5 by the end of the month. So I really feel pretty fine on that front, even though it is a bit overwhelming to think of actually putting everything together in a paper. But I'll get to that...

But the highlight of it all, of course, was last night, when we went to see Jerry Springer: The Opera at the Sydney Opera House. The show was the most ridiculous thing you can imagine, and we had great seats, sushi before, and cheesecake after! All in all, an excellent night.

As for the rest of the time I'm here, let's see... well tomorrow I am taking the ferry to Manly to interview two people there and walk around that area. And Tuesday I leave for Katoomba, a city in the Blue Mountains about 2 hours west of Sydney to adventure there and also meet/interview a few people from Transition Blue Mtns. I get back Thursday and have some last few days in Sydney before I head back up north to the Byron area.

So that is really it from here for now. The first picture here is just from walking down the street in Sydney, the second is from right before the opera, the third is the Opera house at night, and the last is the sun setting over Sydney harbor from outside the train window. I added more to my facebook albums, at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2075861&id=9803563&l=3eacdbd2e8 and http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2076811&id=9803563&l=1190a33e12

Sydney

I made it to Sydney! The trip started yesterday afternoon, with a 3-hour bus ride from Brisbane to Casino. It was the most amazing ride, because we were driving through the countryside as the sun was setting, and it was the most beautiful thing you could see...just for hours. I took the overnight train from Casino to Sydney- 12 hours- leaving at 7pm and getting there at 7am. Luckily the train was pretty empty and I had a row to myself so I could attempt to go to sleep.

I got to Sydney this morning and took the train out to Waverton, where Meg picked me up (a girl from the program) and we went back to her apartment to drop off my bags. After a little while, we headed back into the city. We walked to the fish market, and through the Quay to get the Opera House and a little through the Rocks. At the opera house, we decided to be crazy and bought tickets to a show Friday night! I think it was a great idea.

Tomorrow I am going to the US Consulate to get a new passport, and in the evening a meeting of Transition Sydney at the Fair Trade Cafe. And that's really it! It is great to be in Sydney, it is great to be with Meg, it is great to be moving along this whole ISP process.
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The plan unfolds...

So in the last few days, I have been living out the 'plan' that I spent days in Byron worrying about and figuring out. And I must say, I'm kind of good at planning! Everything is going completely fine, I feel good about where I am with the project, and the different housing situations have also worked out pretty perfectly. I am finding that being satisfied with my experience here and what I'm doing comes so much more naturally when I am planning out my life and days and figuring things out myself, instead of being a sheep in the group and following our director around.

Tuesday morning I took a bus from Byron to Brisbane, and the ride took 4 hours instead of the usual 2 because I didn't realize we'd be taking the scenic route and stopping at literally every town along the coast. I missed my train to Eudlo, and lugging around my bags, figured out I could take a train to a town called Caboolture and switch to a bus to Eudlo. So that all was fine, but the bags....ohhh the bags...

I was going to Eudlo to stay with Sonya, my adviser for this Transition project I am trying to work on. It was pretty brilliant to go to her on the first days of the project, because she gave me books to read, movies to watch, people to talk to, and I left feeling a lot better about where I'm going, and that I'm doing my best, and that it will probably be fine. This is a picture to the left of Sonya's permaculture garden in herbackyard- she grows most of her own food in it.

Thursday morning she dropped me off at the Nambour train station and I went back to Brisbane, where I am now. I am staying with Brian, a kid from the program, in a house with three Queensland Uni students. They are very
nice people, and their house is beautiful, and I am lucky things have continued to work out so nicely. Now, I am sitting at the Queensland State Library, with a big table, a quiet room, lots of Asians on computers, and fast wireless-- these days, it is not too far off from living the dream.

I will hang around Brisbane organizing life until Sunday morning, when I take the train down to Sydney for that 10 day adventure. I am pretty excited to do touristy things, see the opera house, things like that, and get a good chunk of my project done. I still don't know exaaaaaactly where I'll be staying, but I must remember that it has worked out pretty nicely until now, so that could keep happening!

It is crazy to think that the semester is wrapping up at home, and I have 5 weeks left on the whole program, 2 weeks in New Zealand, and then I'm coming home! Very exciting, but until then, I will just continue playing out my plan, and seeing where that takes me. Talk to everyone soon! And for a few more pictures: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2075861&id=9803563&l=3eacdbd2e8

School is out and ISP begins

Since I last wrote, we have taken our final exam, packed up, said bye to the group, and moved out of Byron Central Apts to finally begin our 5 week independent study projects. I left the group when there were 6 weeks left in the program, and we will meet up again when there are 6 days left.

Me and my friend Michelle headed to Mullumbimby (about 20 min north) to stay with Tamar, Ami, and their kids Joy and Eden for 3 nights. This is a picture of their backyard. We played, watched movies, and basically relaxed from the very stressful last week of flood damage and finals.

One morning when I was talking on the phone outside their house, this scene even floated over my head. In conclusion, Mullumbimby was great. The highlight was when we got invited to a jam session by one of Tamar's friends-- little did we know it would be a group of professional musicians hanging out and playing beautiful Indian music together in one of their homes in the middle of the rainforest. Unbelievable. One of these pictures is of that scene.

We left Mullumbimby Sunday morning and headed back to Byron for the East Coast Blues and Roots Festival. It was amazing, long (12 hours), and muddy-- but we saw excellent acts like Ruthie Foster, Blues Traveler, Drive By Truckers, State Radio, Lucinda Williams, and John Butler Trio. It was a great time, and all of the hipsters from all of Australia were there.

Oh! I forgot to mention where we are living right now. It is very funny. We are in a brand new hostel basically right down the road from our old apartments. It is kind of fancy and ridiculous and not our style, but we are enjoying it because we are in a 6-person dorm room with our own bathroom and balcony which is -as of this moment- empty. Not so bad for Easter weekend in Byron Bay!

So BluesFest was great, and today we are hanging out in Byron Bay, going to the market, getting our lives organized before really heading out tomorrow. I am going on an 830am bus to Brisbane and then catching a train to Eudlo to live here for 2ish days with my adviser for my research project- Sonya. My goal is to get a much better picture than I have now of where I'm going with this project, and what I need to do, so I don't waste too much time doing it. Thursday I leave for Brisbane, where I am staying for 3 days with a kid from the program and then on the 19th I take the train down to Sydney for 10 days of project-working-on and traveling there.

So that is the plan! I hope it goes well. I kind of think it will, though, there is no real evidence for that. Either way, I am ready to get this thing started, and keep on moving. I am now also officially leaving the country June 9th -a week earlier than expected- which is exciting and gives me plenty of time in NZ and just what I need! In conclusion, I think things will work out as they should, and I hope everyone is going well (not a typo, Australian way of saying doing well), and talk to you soon!

Also, in meeting several Israelis-in-Australia over the past few days, I have learned a few new expressions for this subculture-- one is Ausraeli, and the other is CHaustralia (emphasizing the hebrew sound -ch-). All great. For a few more pictures: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2075861&id=9803563&l=3eacdbd2e8

Cooloola and Katrina

What a week. I don't even know where to begin, except to say that it ended with a flash flood, an evacuation, and lots of soggy gear, passports, cell phones, etc... Anyway! This is where it all started. We drove about 4 hrs north into Queensland to get to Great Sandy National Park, to an area of it called Cooloola (the Aboriginal name for the area-- it is the sound the wind makes as it blows through the trees). We set up camp in an area called 'Harry's Hut' near the Noosa River- a really beautiful place, but with lots of mossy's (mosquitos). Our guide was a famous conservationist of the area- John Sinclair- who now runs his own tour company. (Bush, by the way, is the Australian word for nature/environment/country/outside of town)

This is where we camped...
We had a really great camping trip until the last day. It was our last trip as a group-- we just have a few days now in Byron before we leave for our ISPs until the end of the program-- and John Sinclair is the world expert in camping and set up '3 course meals with wine in the bush'. We made spring rolls, miso soup, caramel grapes...the works. On physical-activity-day of the trip, we canoed a few miles down the river, and then hiked about 6 miles to a sandblow that overlooked the Pacific.


We swam in the river, drank wine at night, it was a good life. Then Katrina hit! The mess started Thursday, when John told us it 'might rain' and so by a miracle of God I translated this into putting my laptop on the bus. Leaving everything in the world at the campsite behind, we left for s trip to this lake and beach. The road out of the campsite was awful and hilariously bumpy to begin with, and we were so far inland that it took us over an hour to get to a main road. At about lunch, it was decided that our trip would be canceled for the day because we needed to head back to camp, pack up, and leave before the road would be flooded out.

This is a picture of Peter testing how deep the water was on the road, right before he decided that we immediately had to turn back and head to the nearest town. He was absolutely correct because in minutes, the rain turned into a storm which turned into a flash flood. All of our things were back at the campsite-- we all literally just had backpacks on us with a water bottle and notebook-- so Peter, John, and they took Alex along went back to the site to try and get the stuff, and get out before it actually got dangerous. We turned around and after almost getting stuck in a different part of the road, heading to the nearest place, which was -obviously- this next picture.

We didn't hear anything about what happened to Peter, John, or Epps and all assumed all of our stuff was gone for good. The next morning we met them at a gas station and heard the story. Turns out our campsite flooded, and after a 3 hr walk to get there, Epps went through the tents salvaging everything he could, though it was all floating in water. They had spent the night up in the bathrooms which were on higher ground, and luckily were able to drive out the next morning. And we got our stuff, even though it was soaked and smelly, and a lot of people lost things like their computers and ipods...

I turned out pretty ok. My journal made it through! Which was what I was most worried about. But I did lose my cell phone, chargers, and my passport is looking pretty rough... but I really can't believe I have my computer and its fine, because it would definitely have been lost if I left it in the tent. What luck.

So now we are back in Byron. We went straight to the laundromat yesterday afternoon and washed everything we owned. And now there are all kinds of problems for people to try and fix. But Wednesday is our final exam and Thursday we leave for our projects, and we are not back until the very end of it all.

So that is the excitement from here. Completely unexpected Katrina-like turn of events. An article on the flooding here and more pictures here: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=32474624&l=7353cf7139&id=9803563

Minyumai, Jubul, Billajee

Hello everyone! I am back. But I have no pictures to add here because we were not allowed to bring our watches, cell phones, cameras, anything like that... on the camping trip. But it was absolutely incredible-- easily one of the best parts of the trip so far. We started out Monday morning from Lismore, where Margaret dropped me off back at the park she had picked me up at 2 weeks before. The last week with her was great- we went to a 'bush dance' (bush means anywhere outside of the towns), to Nimbin, and out to eat at a 'vegetarian ashram' called 20,000 Cows. I also went to my friend Laura's birthday dinner at her homestay family's house, which was complete with a raising of the American flag. I also had my Roosvelt Fellows interview one of those mornings at 7am....after 3 times of trying to connect with them.

But anyway! Monday morning we started the drive southeast to the Evan's Head area, and we camped on Aborginal land called 'Minyumai' which is a part of the lands of the Bundjalung nation. We camped with Doug, an Aboriginal who was the traditional owner of the land, and also Russell, who is an Aborigine from southern Queensland. In the traditional Aborginal way, we had no schedule or structure to the trip, but rather took our time and did things when and as we felt like it. It was so refreshing and calming and the way it should be, to all sit around the campfire, talking, hanging out, hearing stories, drinking tea and go on walks and hikes and swims when it was time--rather than making it for 8am, or whatever it usually is. I'm pretty sure I was indigenous in a past life.

One afternoon Russell gave us all boomerangs, and we sat around sanding and painting them for awhile, got lessons on how to throw them, as well as how to throw spears, and how to make bread in the fire. At night we would sit around the fire with the Milky Way band overhead, hearing Dreamtime stories from Russell and Doug. It is incredible to see and hear about Australia from them-- not the 200 year old white Western Australia we see, but the ancient Aboriginal Australia, the oldest and most intact and undisturbed indigenous culture and thought-system on the planet. This is their land, their country, it is their religion, there is nothing more to them and their people than their relationship to the land and to each other. The Aboriginal culture has survived tens of thousands of years without agriculture, without government, without structures or buildings because of their logic on the fundamental-ness of strong relationships, on their Dreamtime stories, on social harmony, on laughter, on not knowing the time, on no-hierarchy, on isolation, on living in total dependence and total harmony with their land that they believe they belong to. The Aborginal culture does not have any math or even numbers really-- they have 1,2,3 and then a number for 'more than 3' and 'a mob of people'. The rest of everything is described in terms of kinship relationships. All thought is based on relationships, there is nothing else.

On our short trip, we did a number of really great things in very beautiful places. We went to Black Rock Beach and swam in Jerusalem Creek, and Wednesday we left Minyumai and drove to an area called Jubul, where we camped near (and swam in) the Clarence River. It was the most beautiful place, and some elders from the Aborginal community in the area came and spoke with us, told stories, and we cooked dinner and sat around the campfire, again under the stars. This morning we packed up that camp and drove past Tabulum to a small Aboriginal community and visited a very tiny school-- only 11 kids. We played with them, and then they performed for us-- sang some songs, played instruments and......did the Cha-cha slide. Exactly what we expected to happen. We spent most of the rest of the afternoon driving back to Byron through Casino and Lismore.

And now we are back in our apartments in Byron! It was great to shower and soon it will be great to sleep in a bed. We have plenty to keep us busy this weekend between school work and trying to figure out more about our ISPs, and before we know it, it will be Monday morning when we leave for our next and last group camping trip to Cooloola which is north of here and part of Great Sandy National Park. Next week is April! I cannot believe it. But here are a few random pictures from the last week or so, before the trip: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2073406&id=9803563&l=34c0df7630

Hope everyone is doing well and talk to you soon! Happy birthday Abba!

Bush Dance, Beach, and Nature

Here are a few pictures from the last week in my life. The first few are from the Bush Dance we went to at Tullera Town Hall on Saturday night.

This is during the only dance we were sitting out on, is one way to think of it. It was very fun and Alabama-like, and at the end was a potluck dinner. One of the bigger special twists of the night was during a calming-down break, when the band played and sang "Erev Shel Shoshanim". Very strange and no explanation.
This is a picture of me and Margaret after the Bush Dance, with Michelle to the right and Judith, her homestay mom.
On Sunday, the program hosted a picnic for everyone and their homestay family at Wategos Beach, a beach just north of Byron Bay. It was an absolutely beautiful day and we played in the waves for many, many hours.

Below is a picture of the impending doom in Lismore on Monday.
And after the rain, from Margaret's house...

Last but not least, a picture from our field trip today to the Border Ranges National Park. This is Mt. Warning behind the little cloud, impending doom gray at the top, and the Caldera Ridge in the next picture.
So that is about it-- a photo-journey of last week...it was a good one. Tomorrow we have an all day Aboriginal world-view workshop in preparation for our Aboriginal camping trip next week. Friday we have school again, where me and the 3 other girls in Lismore are responsible for leading the 2-hour discussion, and our 1st ISP Proposal's are due... And then there's the last weekend at Margaret's (already??) and Monday morning it's off to the Bundjalung Aborigines until Thursday when we head back to Byron for a few nights. Most of my life for now, though, is filled with trying to organize and structure ISP- where to go, where to stay, what to do. .....gonna be great!