My Life
1. Painting experiments to warm up the brain. I played with bright colors and stencils, with a great degree of failure but much enjoyment nonetheless. 2. A live performance of the play “Private Eyes” on campus. All those plot twists are bound to wake up your thinking faculties. 3. The ever-loyal Macbook Pro. ‘Nuff said. [...]
This weekend, ACU is hurting. My 1:00 class ended on Friday, and I headed across campus for orchestra practice. As I was walking through the parking lot, I saw one of my professors loading luggage into a big white bus—apparently he was going on a weekend trip. I didn’t think anything of it, and kept [...]
If you’ve ever been on the mission field, you probably understand how much work goes in beforehand to raise the necessary funds. And if you’ve ever looked into buying plane tickets to Africa…well, you really understand. My trip next summer will cost me and estimated $3,000-$4,000. This is probably an unrealistic goal for someone working [...]
Last year, as I became proficient in the art of sandwich-making, I created a short list of what not to do at Subway. But if 2010 was the year of the sandwich, 2011 is the year of the…restaurant. And guess what? After spending much of this year on wait staff at two different restaurants, I [...]
Well, I’m going to Africa next summer. Call it an “extended short term mission trip,” or something like that. Although the dates aren’t nailed down yet, my hope is to spend the majority of the summer there–at least two months, maybe up to three. And I’ve been dying to tell you all about it every [...]
