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From Morgan Spurlock, the same guy who made Super Size Me, comes a new documentary called Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden. He starts in Egypt, and journeys across the Middle East in search of the Elusive Mr Osama. Cinematical managed to catch it at the Sundance Film Festival this year, and managed to Review It. Looks like a very interesting and humorous exploration of the Middle East!
Via Gadling
A while ago, i wanted to spend a lot of time on my journey in places like Japan, Thailand, Europe, etc. I knew that was going to be expensive, but I though…what the heck, it’s my only chance anyway. I had a sort of mind set where this journey was a once-off, as if i wasn’t going to travel again in my lifetime. I also thought that other areas like the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, etc, where somehow less interesting than Western Europe and South-East Asia.
Karachi - Pakistan, originally uploaded by babasteve.
I’ve come to the conclusion that i was completely wrong. The middle east (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc.), Africa (Egypt in particular) and Eastern Europe (Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Slovenia, Croatia, etc.) seem a lot more interesting now.
EGYPT - Market scene, originally uploaded by BoazImages.
I think, now, I’ll be devoting a larger amount of my traveling time to the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Unfortunately I won’t be able to make it to Africa on this initial journey, but once I’ve based myself in England, and I’m going to University, I’ll be able to travel relatively easily, since all those places I want to go to will be so much closer.
Today was my first day of school! Today i officially started Year 11 at Eden Marine High School. I’m about to embark on the final two years of school - senior school. A time in which i hope to grow, experience new things, discover things about myself and more.
Today we went to our old seat, as usual. Sat around until bell time, as usual. And then went to assembly, as usual. Then we went to the gym and got our time tables, outlines of courses, and chose out sport, etc. Today i had:
We had spent all of period 1 getting our stuff, and talking about responsibilities and crap, so we went straight off to period 2. Physics - Oh joy!
Physics was good; we basically did nothing. Just talked half an hour first about basic school things, and responsibilities, etc. A big long blurb about Senior years and the HSC. Then we went into the actual Physics course, what we’ll be covering, when we hand things in, etc. We’ll be covering things like motion, space, electricity, etc. Which should be pretty interesting (im hoping)!
Next was english. Basically we just went over basic course things. What we’ll be doing, what books we’ll be reading, when assessments and assignments are, etc. We then talked a little about extension, and when that’ll be happening, etc. Kind of spent the whole hour not doing any actual work. That’s fine by me!
Ancient history…i must say was boring. Half the class are…well…i wont say it. But hopefully it should be a pretty good subject - maybe half the class will drop out (i hope!?) and we can got on with learning about Egypt and Greece (our subjects this year) and then we also get to do an assessment task on a chosen topic (we get to chose).
Maths was just maths…straight into work. We did a double sided page after getting our text books from Mrs Maxworthy, etc.
So! Looking forward to tomorrow, i suppose…