March 11 — shootings. we are broken people.

  At least 1o people were shot in Alabama yesterday.  16 people were shot today in Germany, about 70 miles from where I live.  I think it’s true of most everything in life that once you have a personal attachment/encounter with something, you’re much more...

March 8 — death and adventure

Yesterday was March 7, 2009.  this day has been a hard day to face for the past five years.  Yesterday marked five years since i became the youngest of 2 children, instead of the youngest of three. Five years since the first time I cried until i had no more tears. ...

March 5 — I want to know the real things.

In my ministry Integration class they handed us a copy of this poem earlier this week, and it’s been on my mind the past few days.  I think it exemplifies what I value and see as being “real” in life.  I just wanted to share this with you guys.  what...

March 3, 2009 — Fasnacht Foolery

This past weekend I experienced my first real culture shock.  This whole time I’ve been submersed in a place that is still the same as the US in many ways especially because it’s all western culture, and where there are some differences, for the most part,...

Feb 21. — finals are done so I swam in the Rhein

SO yesterday was the day of finals for the first term here at EuNC.  The week was kind of crazy with all the thigns we had due and all the things we had to get done.  By thursday night I was going a bit stir crazy and needed some sort of extreme or random activity to...