So, you get a week or two off, and use it for a trip to.....North Korea?
My nephew, who majored in foreign relations and Arabic Studies, now in graduate school, is going over to North Korea for a week this spring break. I have no details yet--I just heard. But since he already has prominently Oriental features, you can bet his every breath will be monitored while he's there. What program this is, or who organized it, I have no idea, and just WHO it is that organized this, I have no idea either. At five feet five, he is no Dennis Rodman.
He ought to have some interesting stories when he gets back! He'll be spending the summer back in Jordan to keep his Arabic up to par. Pretty cool for a kid, some of whose ancestors were Russian Jews named Epstein. And here I thought my daughter had taken the cake when she worked for the UN War Crimes Tribunal in Sierra Leone a couple of years ago.
I'll say this, I'm optimistic about the generation we baby boomers have raised if they don't think twice about using their free time to run off to parts of the world that are considered somewhat less than choice tourist locations.
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