Photos to follow later today. A video montage of our marathon. (At the 3:44 mark you can see us receiving our medals and our friend Angus gives a thumbs up to the camera)
Check out the video here!
Check out the video here!
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Saturday, September 7, 2013
September success-marathon du medoc
Successful marathon in Medoc! Quite the adventure running with 8500 people with 80% following guideline if science fiction fancy dress!
Our team of Avatars are off to bed and I suspect we shall sleep well between our wine tasting and early start!
More photos to come!
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Double your donation until September 30th!
A generous group of supporters has offered to match every gift raised by WFWI now until September 30th, up to $200,000!
Follow this link to show your support!
Follow this link to show your support!
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Medoc
With the marathon coming up this Saturday in Medoc we are all having our final training runs! Hoping the weather forecast that predicts rain for Saturday is wrong! Not fun to run a costume marathon in the rain!!
Monday, September 2, 2013
Diana Nyad
So inspired by Diana Nyad who made history today with by successfully swimming 112 mile swim from Hemingway Marina in Cuba to Key West, Florida breaking the previously held record by 35 miles.
This was her 5th try which begin Saturday morning and continued through the weekend. She is an inspiration for many reminding us to never give up on our dreams.
To learn more about Diana Nyad click here.
This was her 5th try which begin Saturday morning and continued through the weekend. She is an inspiration for many reminding us to never give up on our dreams.
To learn more about Diana Nyad click here.
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
Are you interested to learn more about Kosovo, a country where WFWI is located? I recently read this book that shed light on the Kosovar people. I would love to hear your opinions!
From Publishers Weekly
Huntley's husband volunteered for an American Bar Association project in Kosovo to help create a new legal system in the fall of 2000, the year after NATO bombing had ended. With trepidation, Huntley decided to go, too, enrolling first in a crash course on the teaching of English as a second language so she'd have something to offer. On arriving in Prishtina, she volunteered at a language school and started keeping this diary. Her (mostly Albanian) students became her personal connection to everyday life in Kosovo; this diary, where she recorded her impressions, became her way of sharing Kosovo with the world. There are the usual funny details of life in a foreign country, e.g., the laboriously translated menu that offered "chicken buttocks on screwers." Before long, however, her students' stories take center stage: how they survived the Serb roundups, tortures and killings. As a taxi driver explained, "Some men are hard as stones." Teaching supplies are scarce, so it's serendipitous that the one American-language paperback that Huntley came across is a copy of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, which she photocopied for a reading club she started. Initially leery-"God knows this country doesn't need anymore [sic] macho"-she was pleased to find her students responding to the strength and endurance of Hemingway's protagonist. Huntley and her husband returned home in April 2001, but stayed in touch, largely via e-mail, with their Kosovar friends. Huntley's journal not only shares their stories, but reminds readers that by volunteering, people get back more than they give.
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Coming soon to Boston...
"A show of strength by Middle Eastern Women Photographers"
Coming soon to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. For those of you in Boston, I would love to hear about it if you make it!
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/a-show-of-strength-by-middle-eastern-women-photographers/?_r=5#/1/
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