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Alma Exploration: June 2009
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Journeys, adventures, and travels through the days! Sunday, June 7, 2009. Is only part of the process. Now the real work begins. While this is indeed a volunteer position, it does follow the adage, nothing is free. It costs approximately $10,000. To support a volunteer for the year. ELCA Global Mission contributes up to $6,000 for each young adult's year of mission service. However, I am responsible for raising a minimum of $4,000. Support me for a day! Support me for a week! Support me for a month!
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Alma Exploration: February 2010
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Journeys, adventures, and travels through the days! Sunday, February 28, 2010. Cking is a joke. On the train I was reading a book about the Camino de Santiago (a pilgrimage route in northern Spain), written by a woman who did the entire walk (the book is. Walk in a Relaxed Manner. We agreed that probably some of our values and beliefs might have deepened a bit but nothing seemed “life changing” for us. What we did not realize, of course, was that we were still living the experience. Set out in the dark.
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Alma Exploration: September 2009
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Journeys, adventures, and travels through the days! Tuesday, September 29, 2009. 10 Days of Realizing How Much there is to Know about a Language. Saying ass or police for example…similar sounding words.) But we made it through 10 days learning way too much information to absorb anything! Where we were staying. Looking out over Monoszlo (church steeple and hills of vinyards in the background). Language Class (from above! We finished the afternoon by taking the train to Zanka (the town next to Monoszlo) an...
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Learning to Be: May 2010
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Thursday, May 27, 2010. An Open Letter to the Friends and Families of Returning Young Adults in Global Mission (from the Mexico Country Coordinator, a former YAGM herself). I asked them to write it raw. I asked them to be as honest as they could. Sure, I told them, you can send it if you want to. You can make it part of your final newsletter or blog post. But you can always go back and edit for that later. Write this one raw. But no one did, and so I didn’t. The funny thing is, when I asked my volunteers...
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Learning to Be: Who Says Liberal Arts Majors Don't Do Numbers?
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Monday, July 19, 2010. Who Says Liberal Arts Majors Don't Do Numbers? Kilometers between Regina, Saskatchewan and Budapest, Hungary. The year the house I live in was built. Temperature, in degrees Celsius, in the sun earlier this week. Price, in forints, for half a loaf (half a kilo) of bread. Ars of homemade jam remaining from those I was given this year. Number of weeks I have to use up said jam. Days between my departure and arrival at Regina airport. July 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM. July 24, 2010 at 3:36 AM.
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Alma Exploration: October 2009
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Journeys, adventures, and travels through the days! Friday, October 23, 2009. Saturday, October 10, 2009. 8220;Village Day”). A celebration of the village, of the harvest, and of autumn. It was celebrated predominatly in Magyarmecske with people from the surrounding villages coming to eat, listen to music, and watch some dancing. In Magyarmecske the morning was spent with some family games (families competing against each other in fun little games and races, eg. blind grape eating contest). And cigany (g...
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Learning to Be: Hungarian Words I've Heard a Lot this Week
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Hungarian Words I've Heard a Lot this Week. That means graduation. The school year has wrapped up here; the kids are on summer vacation. This weekend, the older brother of one of the little b. Oys I work with graduated from grade 9. Here grade 9 graduation is a big deal, as it marks the successful completion of. Ter, Roma music (which I enjoy thoroughly) and dancing. You may be able to guess this one: "bicycle tour"! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Learning to Be: June 2010
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Hungarian Words I've Heard a Lot this Week. That means graduation. The school year has wrapped up here; the kids are on summer vacation. This weekend, the older brother of one of the little b. Oys I work with graduated from grade 9. Here grade 9 graduation is a big deal, as it marks the successful completion of. Ter, Roma music (which I enjoy thoroughly) and dancing. You may be able to guess this one: "bicycle tour"! Thursday, June 3, 2010. Dear friends and family,. In my panic,...
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Learning to Be: My Letter
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Thursday, June 3, 2010. Dear friends and family,. In my panic, yesterday I cleaned my room top to bottom—going through books I've borrowed, mementos I've picked up, and a massive stack of papers that have accumulated from one thing or another—with packing for my return trip in mind. I kept thinking "how am I ever going to fit this all into one 23-kg suitcase? This experience has eroded me, changed me, and I’m grateful for it. But how will the new person I’ve become fit back into my old li...Or a London F...
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Learning to Be: Snail Shell Economics
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Saturday, July 17, 2010. From my journal, April 14, 2010. 8220;I know that the experiences f our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work that he will give us to do.” – Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place. I opened with this quote because I’ve been inspired by it ever since I read it in The Hiding Place. I love the idea that God can use every moment of my life—my joys, my sorrows, my frustrations—for a purpose that perhaps only God knows. I later learned t...
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