Thursday, February 28, 2002
what a week! and it's barely halfway over, hehe. but the hard part is behind me. i somehow managed to get both papers done for tuesday, despite not starting them until tuesday morning. God is too good to me, but i sure do appreciate it. last night i just crashed, and then again this afternoon, so i feel much better in the sleep department.
a survivor of the auschwitz concentration camp came and spoke in my holocaust class on tuesday. man, talk about sobering. she was great though. serious, but not depressingly so. she told a few jokes too. i read all these first hand accounts for class, but there's nothing like hearing it from a real person. she talked some about sept. 11 as well, and made some very inspiring comments about our generation being the hope of the world. i'd like to think we can do a better job, but this world will never be perfect as long as it rejects the Lord. so i'll do the best i can, and look forward to the day of His return.
no real exciting news i don't think...oh yeah! argentina here i come!! i got accepted to the la plata summer project, so assuming my parents release me from summer bondage, i'll be there for 6 weeks, taking the message of salvation to a nation in turmoil. i'm really excited about it. after this weekend, i was kinda regretting that i didn't put slovakia as my first choice, cuz a bunch of g-burg peeps are going to be there this summer, but at the same time, i think this is where i'm supposed to be. for some odd reason, i'm always the one who has to break from the pack and go do something random. going to a math and science school instead of 'normal' high school, going to duke instead of staying in cali, going to g-burg instead of santa cruz or some other big beach project, and now argentina instead of slovakia. the director seems like a cool dude over the phone, and it'll be a great new experience in trusting the Lord, since i'll be in less of a comfort zone than i would in slovakia with people i know. but G-Cru is #1 in my heart forever. i love 'em and no one in this world will ever be able to take that spot. ok, that's my G-Cru love for the day. i still haven't recovered from the reunion, but i don't want to :)
ummmm, yeh. dude, john mayer is going to be performing at duke on friday night. awwww yehhhhers!!! i don't know how long he's been around, but i hear he's starting to get some radio play. i don't listen to the radio out here, so i wouldn't know, but he deserves it cuz he's real good. tickets were free for students, so i got one and and extra one for kelly, cuz she's wanting to see him and we haven't hung out in a while. i just gotta find a duke id that looks somewhat like her, and we're good to go, hehe.
ok, gotta call home and get some sleep. check yo'self before ya wreck yo'self! God bless.
sounds: john mayer - back to you
food for thought: the face of battle - john keegan
a survivor of the auschwitz concentration camp came and spoke in my holocaust class on tuesday. man, talk about sobering. she was great though. serious, but not depressingly so. she told a few jokes too. i read all these first hand accounts for class, but there's nothing like hearing it from a real person. she talked some about sept. 11 as well, and made some very inspiring comments about our generation being the hope of the world. i'd like to think we can do a better job, but this world will never be perfect as long as it rejects the Lord. so i'll do the best i can, and look forward to the day of His return.
no real exciting news i don't think...oh yeah! argentina here i come!! i got accepted to the la plata summer project, so assuming my parents release me from summer bondage, i'll be there for 6 weeks, taking the message of salvation to a nation in turmoil. i'm really excited about it. after this weekend, i was kinda regretting that i didn't put slovakia as my first choice, cuz a bunch of g-burg peeps are going to be there this summer, but at the same time, i think this is where i'm supposed to be. for some odd reason, i'm always the one who has to break from the pack and go do something random. going to a math and science school instead of 'normal' high school, going to duke instead of staying in cali, going to g-burg instead of santa cruz or some other big beach project, and now argentina instead of slovakia. the director seems like a cool dude over the phone, and it'll be a great new experience in trusting the Lord, since i'll be in less of a comfort zone than i would in slovakia with people i know. but G-Cru is #1 in my heart forever. i love 'em and no one in this world will ever be able to take that spot. ok, that's my G-Cru love for the day. i still haven't recovered from the reunion, but i don't want to :)
ummmm, yeh. dude, john mayer is going to be performing at duke on friday night. awwww yehhhhers!!! i don't know how long he's been around, but i hear he's starting to get some radio play. i don't listen to the radio out here, so i wouldn't know, but he deserves it cuz he's real good. tickets were free for students, so i got one and and extra one for kelly, cuz she's wanting to see him and we haven't hung out in a while. i just gotta find a duke id that looks somewhat like her, and we're good to go, hehe.
ok, gotta call home and get some sleep. check yo'self before ya wreck yo'self! God bless.
sounds: john mayer - back to you
food for thought: the face of battle - john keegan
Sunday, February 24, 2002
well hello there! got back form g-burg about three hours ago, and i have accomplished the following: turning on my computer, using the restroom, unpacking, watching the second half of the duke vs. st. john's game, using the restroom again, checking on sports occurrences over the weekend, and checking my email (twice). things left to accomplish: 200 pages of history reading, a five page history midterm paper, a holocaust paper rewrite, some random web assignment for my holocaust class, and whatever homework i need to read for spanish tomorrow. i reeeeeeeeeally want to take a nap, but i don't know how good of an idea that would be. we'll see what the future holds.
dude, this weekend was awesome. despite my lack of sleep during the past two weeks, i managed to stay awake for the entire drive with courtney. we talked pretty much the whole time, and she's a very talkative person, so my job was pretty easy. you can learn a lot about a person during a six hour car ride, so i took advantage of the opportunity. i already knew she was an awesome person, but i now have a new appreciation/perspective, or something like that. plus her mom gave me cookies when we stopped by her house on the way back today, and they are deeeeelish! :)
anyways, when we got to the chalet where we stayed for the weekend, only one other person (stacey) was there. it was 8:30, but the thing that made it weird was that all the clemson folks left around 2 or 2:30, and it's only a two and a half hour drive from there to the 'burg, so we were wondering what had happened to them. turns out the people at the rental office had given them the keys to the wrong chalet (twice), so after two fruitless 15 minute drives up the winding mountain, they went out to dinner before attempting for the third time that evening to find the right chalet. it only took them until 9:30, but we'll let 'em slide on that one, hehe. seeing [almost] everyone again was the best. it's amazing, the bond i've formed with these people over the last 9 months. i didn't know any of them when i arrived on project june 4.2001, but after those ten weeks, i consider them to be my dearest and best friends in the world. i'd do anything for any one of them, because i love them, and [i hope] they know it. i won't continue to bore ya with the details of our gallivanting around town, but it was a pretty chill weekend. spent most of our time hangin at the chalets and talking, watching dumb and dumber (top 10 movie EVER!), in fellowship, and just worshipping God for the gift He's given us in life and the friendships we have with each other.
i also got to go back to the restaurant i worked at over the summer. we all ate dinner there on saturday night, and i saw most of the co-workers that i wanted to say hello to that night. it was really cool seeing how their faces lit up when dave, haley and i (we all worked there) walked in. business has picked up majorly since we left at the end of summer, and everyone seemed to be doing well. when i think about how unusually slow business was during the summer while we were there, i realize that it must have been because God wanted us to have time to talk with the people there. if the restaurant had been as busy all summer as it was supposed to be, we would never have been able to sit down and chill with them, have the conversations we did, and have as much of an impact on their lives. it was kind of frustrating at the time, cuz we all needed money, but what is that in the grand scheme of things? God always has something bigger and better planned, it just takes us a while to figure out what that is. in my case, that happens 9 months after the fact, but it's all bueno in the sueno. all that plus shawn hooked me and dave up on our dinners and gave us an extra plate of chicken fingers. awwww yehhhhhers!
so as we're all getting ready to leave this morning, todd is backing out and hits the car of some people in a chalet next to us. leave it to todd to make a last second contribution to the weekend spice-o-meter. it looked really bad at first, but forget thee not that modern cars have bumpers made of plastic, so they just popped it back out. it's still scratched and barely dented, but much better than it looked. i wonder, what's the use in a cheap, hollow, plastic bumper? i could kick one and make it fall off a brand new car, so what good is it gonna do for you when another car hits you? not much in my humble opinion. memo to all car manufacturers: stop being so bloody chinsy!
i would write more, but time is slipping away rapidly. gotta make like a tree and leave! God bless.
sounds: shane bernard - ancient of days
food for thought: the art of war in world history - edited by gerard chaliand
dude, this weekend was awesome. despite my lack of sleep during the past two weeks, i managed to stay awake for the entire drive with courtney. we talked pretty much the whole time, and she's a very talkative person, so my job was pretty easy. you can learn a lot about a person during a six hour car ride, so i took advantage of the opportunity. i already knew she was an awesome person, but i now have a new appreciation/perspective, or something like that. plus her mom gave me cookies when we stopped by her house on the way back today, and they are deeeeelish! :)
anyways, when we got to the chalet where we stayed for the weekend, only one other person (stacey) was there. it was 8:30, but the thing that made it weird was that all the clemson folks left around 2 or 2:30, and it's only a two and a half hour drive from there to the 'burg, so we were wondering what had happened to them. turns out the people at the rental office had given them the keys to the wrong chalet (twice), so after two fruitless 15 minute drives up the winding mountain, they went out to dinner before attempting for the third time that evening to find the right chalet. it only took them until 9:30, but we'll let 'em slide on that one, hehe. seeing [almost] everyone again was the best. it's amazing, the bond i've formed with these people over the last 9 months. i didn't know any of them when i arrived on project june 4.2001, but after those ten weeks, i consider them to be my dearest and best friends in the world. i'd do anything for any one of them, because i love them, and [i hope] they know it. i won't continue to bore ya with the details of our gallivanting around town, but it was a pretty chill weekend. spent most of our time hangin at the chalets and talking, watching dumb and dumber (top 10 movie EVER!), in fellowship, and just worshipping God for the gift He's given us in life and the friendships we have with each other.
i also got to go back to the restaurant i worked at over the summer. we all ate dinner there on saturday night, and i saw most of the co-workers that i wanted to say hello to that night. it was really cool seeing how their faces lit up when dave, haley and i (we all worked there) walked in. business has picked up majorly since we left at the end of summer, and everyone seemed to be doing well. when i think about how unusually slow business was during the summer while we were there, i realize that it must have been because God wanted us to have time to talk with the people there. if the restaurant had been as busy all summer as it was supposed to be, we would never have been able to sit down and chill with them, have the conversations we did, and have as much of an impact on their lives. it was kind of frustrating at the time, cuz we all needed money, but what is that in the grand scheme of things? God always has something bigger and better planned, it just takes us a while to figure out what that is. in my case, that happens 9 months after the fact, but it's all bueno in the sueno. all that plus shawn hooked me and dave up on our dinners and gave us an extra plate of chicken fingers. awwww yehhhhhers!
so as we're all getting ready to leave this morning, todd is backing out and hits the car of some people in a chalet next to us. leave it to todd to make a last second contribution to the weekend spice-o-meter. it looked really bad at first, but forget thee not that modern cars have bumpers made of plastic, so they just popped it back out. it's still scratched and barely dented, but much better than it looked. i wonder, what's the use in a cheap, hollow, plastic bumper? i could kick one and make it fall off a brand new car, so what good is it gonna do for you when another car hits you? not much in my humble opinion. memo to all car manufacturers: stop being so bloody chinsy!
i would write more, but time is slipping away rapidly. gotta make like a tree and leave! God bless.
sounds: shane bernard - ancient of days
food for thought: the art of war in world history - edited by gerard chaliand
