Quite a bit of school
Quite a bit of work
Quite a bit of going around the world.

Matters a great deal who's sitting in the Oval Office. That's job number one for 2008.

Fifty years ago, a bunch of ambulance drivers who'd seen all of the carnage of the World Wars got together and started a program to send young people from all of the formerly warring countries into each other's families. Fifty years later, kids from more than fifty countries are still spending years abroad with the American Field Service (www.afs.org), and the ranks of alumni include key diplomats, peacemakers, and MacArthur genius grant recipients from around the world. They got it, those ambulance drivers. If I could meet anyone...

The Leader
--Roger McGough

I wanna be the leader
I wanna be the leader
Can I be the leader?
Can I? I can?
Promise? Promise?
Yippee I'm the leader
I'm the leader

OK what shall we do?

A booming industrial country in East Asia
A struggling agricultural country in Eastern Africa
and a little farm town in the Eastern United States.

And some others.

All over, really.

Politics
The environment (esp. in the industrializing world)
Legal reform
Health infrastructure in the developing world

The language of the Han, the language of Gaul,
and I dabble in a few others.