East Girl Middle East
June 29th, 2007
You knew that headline was coming.
I woke up at 4:15 this morning and sat outside my room on the balcony, looking out across the water. Those mountains the sun is coming over? That’s Jordan.
A few hours later I walked across the street with some colleagues, and we floated in the salty sea. Round pebbles of salt cover the bottom, and it’s true about the floating. Impossible not to - we laughed at the need for the lifeguard surveying the little beach we left our towels on. We also spashed around like true tourists, laughing and squealing at our inabilty to stay vertical in the water.
My skin has never felt as soft since I got out. The entire experience was so strange, so impossible…I understand why people think the sea has healing power.
Next on the agenda today is a site survey with my producer and cameraman. We’re heading to Masada at high noon, and have been told it was 124 degrees there yesterday. It’s already suffocatingly hot here next to the water and I can’t imagine what awaits us on the mountain.
Headline hysteria!
Sounds like so much fun. Hoping you’re not melting.
I love that East Girls West is reporting from… the Middle East!
As I told you before you left, you’re getting some serious mileage from your blog title! Who could have predicted this…?
Stay cool.
(Interpret that any way you want.)