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Winter is in full swing here in Minnesota. I love that we have had two big snowstorms already in December! and we're in the midst of the Christmas Blizzard of 2009. I don't need to dream of a white Christmas, it's here! I've been home in Minneapolis for over a year now, and thought I'd blog about my transition back home and what's next for me. I have many blog entries to type up from my travels in 2008. One of these days I'll get around to typing up my travel journal. Meanwhile, some insights and highlights from 2008-2009. I left [View Full Entry]

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Built inside a historic train repair shop, this Best Western is the most unique hotel I've stayed at. The original train tracks run through the floor! The original wooden ceiling beams are still there, as well. The rooms are all situated around a lobby with a platform that replicates a train stop along a train route. How fun is that? Get wireless high-speed Internet and a free continental breakfast. There is also complimentary parking, an indoor pool and whirlpool, a kiddie pool and exercise room. Although we didn't get a full night's rest there because of our early morning flight, I [View Full Entry]

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How do you define traveling? Some countries or thoughts that may come to mind include: Sierra Leone, scuba diving off of Belize, or perhaps a family vacation to Europe. I partly define traveling by a change in my state of mind, where I am transported into such a different environment that I learn to see people, ideas, cultures, languages, religious, notions and ways of doing things differently. This is not surprising, given that when you travel, you may surprise yourself: you may learn that you are much more open than you thought you were; you may also learn that you can [View Full Entry]

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30/11-09: I midten af november havde EF lavet en tur for nogle udvekslingsstudenter i mit omraade. Vi startede med at tage til Mall of America. Vi er fire udvekslingspiger paa min skole, saa vi lavede en pigeshoppetur ud af det. Det var vildt hyggeligt, indtil det lykkes Marte, norsk, at miste sin pung.. i USA's stoerste mall!!! Saa jeg loeb rundt i MoA med hende i en time og et kvarter, hvorefter vi heldigvis fandt det!! I bussen paa vej hjem fandt jeg 2 danske drenge! Det er foerste gang i 4 maaneder jeg har snakket ansigt til ansigt med danskere! [View Full Entry]

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That is one of the main things that I have been learning here at YWAM DTS. I have been so concerned with what God wants me to do rather than what he wants me to be. I thought that I would be coming here to DTS to get some great bible truths about my relationship with Christ. Right after that, I thought I would be going to Haiti to take those truths to the Christ hungry Haitians. But Abba is shattering those plans extremely fast. When people receive a passion for a nation, like myself, we want to do something right [View Full Entry]

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I rolled down the window. The breeze was chilly. Very chilly. It was early June, but northeast Minnesota did not seem to care. In the late spring of 2006, I embarked on a week of fishing and sightseeing in the Boundary Waters region of Minnesota with my father. We were to meet in late afternoon on a Saturday, but I decided to leave Norman, OK, early on Friday. Early ended up being about 1 pm, but that still falls under the definition of the word in my book. The drive was solely to be I-35 until the town of Cloquet, after [View Full Entry]

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Early next week I will write a detailed entry of how amazingly Youth With A Mission Discipleship Training Sschool is going. J Right now though, I would really appreciate all of your prayers. All of us students and staff met to hear about the details of each outreach which will take place from December 30-February 20 as part of DTS. The two choices are Peru or India. Each one of us students will be individually praying about which country God would like to use us in to fulfill his will. We just went over the details and will be praying and [View Full Entry]

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And now for something completely different! I've been contacted by people from all over the world who have read my blog and I'm now up to 8700 hits. So I'm taking a momentary break from Saudi Arabia blog entries, to give you some photos from where I live. There is nothing more Minnesotan than the Minnesota State Fair, which takes place at the end of August. Here are some photos that my daughter took while we were there. These photos are the essence of being Minnesotan. In fact, these could be used in an anthropology class at the University of Minnesota [View Full Entry]

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It has been 4.5 months since I arrived back to the civilization I know as Minneapolis, Minnesota. How great those two words sound together. Still in Nicaragua the last week in May, I didn't want to leave the country I never thought I would call home. My very last day and night in Nicaragua was unforgetable. I said goodbye to my friends in Granada, one of whom took the bus ride with me into Managua. Having to say goodbye is never fun. I emptied all my Cordoba out of my bank account, transfered it to USD and spent the afternoon shopping. [View Full Entry]

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