What does it mean!

Several people have asked me what the title of my blog means, so I guess I will attempt to expalin the hilarity of my discovering it. I was rummaging through the dictionary in search of a "K" word to go with my name, and in a stroke of luck I came across kibosh, which means nonsense. oh perfect! I thought, nonsense by Kerri! I knew thats exactly what my posts would be, so I had to use it. Just as I was about to shut good old webster, my eye caught the word right below kibosh. I read, kibbutz: an Israeli farming community. I burst out laughing. Can life get better? I submit that it can not!* I couldn't have picked a better title if I was pulling words out of thin air, which I've been reminded, it seems like I did. Anyway, so there you have it, "nonsense from an Israeli farming community." * special thanks to Brian Regan for letting me quote him all the time...

Hello? Is this thing on?

As a first time blogger, I suppose I'm excited enough to post for no good reason other than to make sure this works, which of course it does. Oh well, I guess you'll just have to deal with my uncontrollable excitement. This blog is soon to be my main means of communication with the world outside of the middle east. I'm ultra excited to go to Jerusalem on study abroad in about six weeks. I can't believe my dreams of traveling are finally coming true! In a few short weeks I'll be walking down hundred year old streets and seeing places I've only read about. I can only imagine what I will learn both in and out of class. But, until then, you and I will be left to our dreams of an ancient land and an opportunity almost too good to be true.