Happy 25th Wedding Anniversary!

Wow…I can’t believe my parents are having their 25th wedding anniversary! I know women my mom’s age who still have “boyfriends”!

Good job sticking together all these years! … mmm…I don’t really know what else to say about wedding anniversaries. Congratulations!!

About Religion…

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”-Proverbs 22:6

Since I’ve been here I’ve had a lot of conversations about God and religion with a variety of people who have a lot of interesting opinions and views. As most people know, [...]

PostSecret

I’ve just added A VERY fascinating blog that I found via Mona’s Working Towards Peace blog to my link list. It’s called PostSecret. People are asked to create a postcard themselves, write a secret on it and send it to this guy. I’m sure a lot of them aren’t real, but it’s still very interesting. [...]

About Sarongs…

Here’s an entry I had written back in March and I completely forgot to post it. Here it is 3 months later…I’ve started wearing sarongs here so I can get used to it when I’ll be in the rural areas. My mom sends me emails quite often. Since her emails usually have tons and tons [...]

Beware of the "Reply All" Email Function

After reading Heather’s “The Dreaded ‘Reply All’” post, I dug up an email I wrote more than a year ago when people at my university were senselessly using the “Reply All” function. One day after receiving a flood of “me too!”, “I’m interested!”, “sign me up!” emails from co-op students, I got [...]

Birthday Party Pictures

This Saturday, June 4th, Heshani had a party for me. We were expecting (and prepared food for) about 20 people. In the end, about 30 people came around. Party started around 21:00ish and I got home by (I believe) about 03:00 or so? Unfortunately, we didn’t think to take the camera out [...]

Birthday Activities

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Something strange happened this morning: At about 06:30 I [thought I] heard a small voice saying: “Ian! Ian!” it sounded high pitched like when you dial someone by accident on your cell phone and they’re trying to yell your name. I looked at my phone and it was off, [...]