I'm sure you all have read, listened to, or seen the news about the uproar in the MidEast. Egypt peacefully protested and succeeded in removing their dictator of so many years. Libya´s people are painfully revolting. Morocco, Spain's neighbor to the south, is beginning to awake as well. I've been so near and yet so far from it all.
A young woman close to my friends has been living in Egypt for better half of the last year, engaged to be married to an Egyptian. When the protests and revolt began, her grandmother and friends called and called, worrying about her safety, what would happen. Thank God there was no need for evacuation of Spanish citizens, so she is still safe there and will be married this spring surrounded by family from Spain and friends.
Can you imagine living in such history-making circumstances? Living in such nerve-wracking and yet exciting times? What would you do: stay at home nursing the pager given to you by the embassy, sneak a peek out the window of the protests, catch the next plane home, join the protests? Or if it happened in your own state? It's beyond my imagination. So close and yet so far away.
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When I saw that Morocco was also having protests I did wonder if it was causing some concern in Spain. I shouldn't be surprised that you know someone directly effected. Hey, I happened to check the reader thingie you set up to see that you had written this, but I then had to go to the actual blog to comment. Is there a way to write a comment from that Google site?
ReplyDeletewow - this stuff always hits home a little more when you know someone who'd daily life is actually affected by what's happening. it is pretty amazing to watch. and I agree, I have no idea how I would react in the midst of it.
ReplyDeleteMom, if you want to leave a comment, you do need to click on the entry, which takes you to the actual blog. Then you comment (just like you did). You can't comment from that google site.
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