I would be depriving you of my present feeling of elation if I did not copy and paste part of this e-mail from G. McMahan into my livejournal.

"If hurricanes could be made of joy and love, one just roared through Londrina and left a trail of beauty in its wake.

Between August 2 and 9, a team of 10 Americans (6 high school students, 3 university ( Read more... )

 I've been thinking a lot lately. God's been teaching me a lot lately. It's very exciting. I'm not mentally prepared for a long, insightful update though, so don't get excited.
 I got my wisdom teeth out on Friday. My face is still a little puffy, but all things considered I'm doing really well. I feel fine and no infections occured. I'm tired of ( Read more... )

I'm homesick for a place that isn't my home.

But wait... what if it is my home?

More on this when I have gotten more than 4 hours of sleep in a period of 35 hours.

 As I told TS today, I would be lying if I said that this trip hadn't made me consider skipping college and coming to live in Brazil to help the McMs. This is just phenomnal. Everything that they are doing is strategic and also pleasing to God. They have it down pat. I am so glad that we have been able to serve them in useful ways. M McM was ( Read more... )

The first update from Brazil...

We got here a day later than expected because our flight was bumped back 24 hours because it was way overbooked. This was, at first, a bummer. But, the team handled it really well. United Airlines put us up in the Hilton at Dulles, which was swank. We slept well, ate well, and got to go to the National Air and Space ( Read more... )

sorry. i know this makes your friend page huge. but i can never get my pics to work in a cut.


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last night was awesome. i had a great time. mike came... i think he had a great time too. everything was wonderful... including the food. yum. after cpr, we went to red robin. that was fun. we laughed... a lot. oh boy! haha. boys. whew. anyway, i don't really have much to say right now. the lovely sonja and i are hanging out this evening and i can ( Read more... )

i just found a blog group on livejournal devoted to complaining about ms. hamill. needless to say, i am very disappointed in a few of my fellow students. (not kayla or sarah, who have both commented once on a particular entry). one student suggests that we go to the board of education and that if they don't listen we go to the press. what kind of ( Read more... )

i guess this has to happen to everyone at some point.

i could be an optimist and say... "look! i lasted a year without one."

but really, that's not how i'm feeling. i'm feeling lower than pond scum. lower than something lower than something lower than pond scum. i feel like an awful person.

**incase you hadn't guessed... i got my first traffic ( Read more... )

I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL FRIDAY!

maria, this is why i was asking about the 18th. i thought i'd try again and hope that you didn't get sick this time. :( let me know, once you've checked the "master calendar" if you're interested.

it's going to be hott. anyone else interested can, of course, also comment. :)

now, i am going to got do some biology ( Read more... )