Charlotte is unbelievably HUMID! I'm at a Best Western outside of the airport, and the staff is all super nice. I was shuttled over by Mike, a guy who moved here from Nigeria, learned Spanish from Salvadorians (on top of the other 6 languages he demonstrated to me --- French, Japanese, Slovak, and 3 different Nigerian dialects), and loves shouting out a singular Chinese phrase. He put my spanish to good use too. Its about 32 degrees, but it feels more like 45, and its pretty hard to breathe, like being in a sauna. Right now I'm sitting next to Mario, [View Full Entry]

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have in enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity....It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates vision for tomorrow. .........Melodie Beattie The events of the last 6 weeks blindsided me and has unravelled in ways I would never imagine. It all started with the words "I am kinda having a commitment issue" and ended up with me getting [View Full Entry]

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Less than a month before I start my big adventure overseas. Or to be more specific: 22 days 9 hours 41 minutes. It's exhilarating and terrifying... (lets see just how many study abroad cliches I can use) Today I got the information about where I'm going to be living. It's Warrender Park Crescent. The link below has all the details, and a picture, the outside looks lovely- nothing like Tufts! I'm sharing a flat with four other people and we all have single rooms, and a kitchen and common area. I had to do the housing contract online, and it pretty [View Full Entry]

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I hate florida. i hate florida. i dont really know what else to tell you. its hot, sticky, humid, and infested with bugs. Its disgusting. Florida was probably the worst selling days for everyone on the tour. The fact that people plain out SUCK in Florida, and the fact that its hot and disgusting makes up for that no one sold much. so yea. florida sucks. though i did take an amazing shower in the rain. i really didn't mean to, but the fact that we didn't have enough time to get all the shit into the trailer before it started [View Full Entry]

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Well, it's 4 AM Seattle time and 7 AM Charlotte time, and Becky and I have arrived at the Charlotte (CLT) airport dazed and tired. The cramped coach seats were incredibly uncomfortable, and they didn't have enough blankets and pillows to give us. Needless to say our necks are cramped and we're tired. But I shouldn't be complaining -- the flight went well, we met a woman on board who was a nanny (she has nannied in the Alps of all places), who was really kind. Currently we are sitting in large wooden rocking chairs at the atrium, with a misty [View Full Entry]

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Hi y'all, Well not a very big report tonight! My master and I just "hung around" this morning, while the ladies went to visit and have coffee with Barb Blackburn who had worked at Nasuli when Sharon was the librarian there. Then after lunch we went to visit Joe and Marilyn Waddington, who Sharon had worked with in Manila. Then my masters and the host and hostess went out for supper at Pier 51, a seafood restaurant. While being inexpensive, they served a very good dinner to all of us. As per usual, I remained at the Beltz home keeping Daryl's [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone: Well we arrived in Waxhaw, NC this afternoon. And our hosts and hostess, Daryl & Leshia had planned a get-together with 18 of Sharon's former colleagues from Wycliffe Bible Translators. JAARS is the technical operation centre for those involved in the areas of communications (i.e. computers, etc.), maintenance and aviation programs. It operates training for those heading to overseas assignments for the first time and also recurrancy training for members heading back to their overseas assignments. This is also home to some historical museums for the organization, too. It was grea [View Full Entry]

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Happy Easter everyone! Today the folks went to church at Second Baptist Church, in Lancaster, S.C. Then they were invited out to the home of Mike and Kathy Smith. Wow, what a dinner! Steak, baked potatoes, salad and key lime pie, with some chocolate cherry cake thrown in! I had to stay home but it looks like by the pictures that a little black dog tried to make friends with Eric and as you can see, pictures don't lie! Should I be jealous? Then it was home for a relaxing afternoon and evening. Not sure of all of the plans for [View Full Entry]

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Jepps, da er vi tilbake i skribleboka til han gjelle, hvor det skrives om stort og smått fra hans eget liv i Uniten. Vel, hva har vi så i vente denne gang? Uka etter New York hadde jeg planlagt å være en uke i rolige Charlotte, North Carolina. Jeg var tidlig ute med å søke etter sofaer og fikk ja hos Cathy Coulter ([url=http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=no&geocode=&q=1614+Euclid+Ave,+Charlotte,+NC+28203&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.626896,81.738281&ie=UTF8&ll=35.212194,-80.853217&spn=0.008468,0.019956&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr]se kart[/b [View Full Entry]

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After an uneventful flight from Syracuse to Boston, we had just enough time in Boston to have a nice little breakfast and get ready to board our next plane to Charlotte, NC. Since we had gotten these flights the day before we left, Jason and I didn't get to sit together from either Boston to Charlotte nor Charlotte to Denver. This flight we were both in the same row, but in the middle seats on the opposite sides of the plane. Jason sat in between some old people and later complained that they were not good people to sit with and [View Full Entry]

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