Blogs from New Brunswick, Canada, North America - page 20

My whole week, it seemed, was leading up to tomorrow. Tomorrow is mail day. The day I have been waiting for. The day I receive the package I have been anticipating for months! Unfortunately, someone decided that I don’t need it and mailed it to where I will be next week. That’s unfortunate for two reasons: first, because it adds another whole week of waiting. And also, because it also contains something for Kyle, which means I’ll have to mail it to him in another country. Oh well. We shall overcome. The crew today was super fast! The ME rocked, so I could let him focus the electrics while others did FOH and I did booms. We make a record… completely done with everything (lights and carpentry) at 2 and a half hours! Kyle was done ... read more

…driving down this road a while… Vacation was great. Lots of people came over and there were lots of stories told. Kyle picked us up at the airport after a long day of traveling, and there weren’t words to describe how much he missed us ;) After a nice long chat with the three of us, we crashed in the suites. Saturday wasn’t an early day, but I still hit the snooze button until 15 minutes before we needed to leave. Needless to day, I don’t remember a whole lot more about that day. But I do remember that we ate with the kids and then Sarah and I watched Prince of Egypt. Today, I got up early to get cleaned up to go to devotions with the kids. Partly because we have so little time ... read more

This is going to be the my last entry. I am "finishing" this blog - not because I don't think I will have anything else to write, because I am sure that my work with the Filipino activist community is going to continue. Or, because I don't think I will have any more emotional episodes to share; I have brought all of my unresolved feelings home with me from the Philippines, and wouldn't dare pretend that they are not going to be an issue in the next few weeks or months. But, because I don't necessarily want to share all of my emotions with the world anymore. I tried to be really honest and detailed in my blog, about my work and my emotions, because I wanted everyone, especially readers from my church, to see exactly ... read more

In mid-February of last year for want of anything better to do, I took up my roommate's invitation to go to a postcard writing workshop. As I was with my roommate, we arrived late (I'm not aware that he has ever actually been on time for anything in his life.) When we got there the class was in the midst of introducing themselves. I am not one to think that everyone who travels has to go off to far off exciting places, rather that traveling gives us a point of view which allows us to explore our world in a different way. It was clear though from the group assembled that there was a lack of real travelers, mostly cabin fever riddled people who wanted to get out of the house on a dreary winter ... read more

A very cold and snowy hello from Canada! Firstly i have to tell you that i wrote this a few days ago but couldn't publish it for some reason so it may seem a few days out! The final entry will come on Monday. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Its been one hell of a trip from New Jersey but i am finally here! As many of you may have noticed the bad weather seems to be following me round the world! In Thailand i hit Monsoon season, It snowed in Southern Australia, was cold the whole two weeks in Sydney and they "hadn't had fog like it for years" in LA! It rained for 4 days straight in New Jersey so i wondered, as it was already snowing there, what on earth could happen in Canada? Going back a ... read more