2:50 AM is our rendez-vous time outside my house. I meet up with Walter my neighbour, Oscar (a fellow teacher) and Eddie, Heber, and Johnny (students at Beerseba) in the light rain. Les picks us up in his Kia van and we hook up with Estuardo and Erwin and their big cattle truck. Eric misses … [Read more…]
What a priviledge to carry the gifts from our church here in Tactic and gifts from Canadian Donors to the refugees of the mudslides southwest of us. According to some reports there are as many as 200,000 homes destroyed or damaged. Mixed reports say that 652 people are confirmed dead with the number rising possibly … [Read more…]
Well zaakistan.com visitors, after months and months of planning and prayer and excitement and stress here and there and a lot of packing and a trip to Calgary and 2 flights and a great rest in the capital and a 3 hour drive from Guatemala City: we’re here in our new home with an internet … [Read more…]
Oh man. This has been a whirlwind summer. I haven’t had time to think of the next 3 weeks. So we had a great time in Montreal. Groovy place! I miss it even now. Tennis is the rain. Food that I’ve never heard of before. Quick friends. Gosh. And then to Acadie. Grande-Memere could make … [Read more…]
Exhale. Inhale. Amber is in Montreal with my baby boy. I’ll be joining them and visiting my good friends on Thursday. Until them, I’m holding up in Red Deer at mom’s. On July 25 we moved out of Spruce Grove and into my mom’s house in Red Deer where we’ll be storing our stuff during … [Read more…]
Amber and I vacationed the last three days of spring break in the Rocky Mountains. We started our trek in Jasper, taking in the bitter winds and brown scenery along with the royal peaks. We checked out some of the sights and then continued south along highway 93 with poor driving conditions. There was snow. … [Read more…]
A/Some vandal(s) pryed open my car door and stole some iPod attachments and a tripod a week and a half ago. My immediate feelings were that of being violated. How aweful that someone would feel free to break my property and go into my space. Now I’m just inconvenienced because my car is no longer … [Read more…]
There’s a strike in Jasper so FREE CAMPING. Let’s leave at 3 pm. Chris can be ready at 4. Josh and Stephen can come too. Josh has practice until 5. Will arrives in The Grove at 6 without Chris. No one can get ahold of Josh. Stephen is frustrated and opts out. Will and I … [Read more…]
If it really mattered to me that each experience that I had was recorded in this blog, well, the past couple weeks would set me back a fair bit. Here’s what it looks like from the inside of the nutshell. packed in NDG, ate at Au Pied du Cochon, bought out our lease, loaded the … [Read more…]
So we drive to Mont Tremblant after spending the night at a full facility campground. I just want to climb a mountain, but no one else in the park seems to want to. People can take an air car up the green ski slope mountain or pay $11 to hang out by the lake. I … [Read more…]