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So first off, I apologize for being gone so long, But I figure I needed some time off to reset my person after such an adventure as mine was. I appreciate all of your support during my time abroad, and I will appreciate your continued support as I head into this next phase in my life. Manhood.
So today, I am off to do something that I never really pictured myself doing. Interviewing for a job....
December 2009
2 posts
Chapter Twenty-Three...Not the End
I’ve been dreading this moment for the last two weeks. I’m not sure what it will take to finish this, and I’m not sure that I’m even capable of doing it now, but I’ll try. I’m home. After four months of prolonged travel and perpetual tourism I’m home. I’ve also been to school, and gone through all of the smiles, meals, and long awaited hellos. I’ve been able to talk to people about my experience...
Chapter Twenty-Two...Music and Life
First off, God is faithful. That’s true, and is true always. Second, I thank god for writing, I thank god for my hands that their ability to transmit coherent thought into keystrokes and intersecting lines. I’m thinking now of the future, and there it lies. All of it is already inside, I can feel my future within me like a child that’s grown along with me the last few months. I know that it is...
November 2009
5 posts
Chapter Twenty-One...Consonants and Vowels
As I walk through the segmented remains of a former empire, I can see the fragments of society as they once were and now remain. The land that is ruled by different peoples at different times often sees the cruel abuse of passing theme and fickle identity as they begin to infect the subjected land. There are old churches, adorned with rotten frescos and melting mosaics. There are mosques, one per...
Chapter Twenty... From Rome with Love
There are an endless amount of previously empty spaces in my mind that are now occupied by important bits of data. I just finished up my second visit to Rome, and this time around my experience was far more enlightening. Although this time I did not have the awe factor that comes with a first time experience, Europe Semester enabled me to understand Rome more fully. This time I was aware of shifts...
Chapter Nineteen...A Map of the Heart
This Semester I have been traveling across the vast landscape of the Western world. I have visited sites of significance to all modern societies and have heard languages I’ve never heard, and learned many things I never knew. I have been both near and far from the familiar to the unfamiliar both terrifying and exhilarating and I have discovered a little bit of what is represented on a map of the...
Chapter Eighteen...My Friends
Dear Matt, Levi, Curtis, Jordan, Nate, B-Lane, Jordan, Ray and Jake.
Hey guys, what’s up? I’m in Florence, Italy, for another few days then heading to Rome and Turkey for the final leg of my journey. It hit me just now, we’re graduating, we’re growing up you know? I know Alex is already done, and at least Matt, Levi, Curtis and I will be done after this semester. So guess what song just popped in...
Chapter Seventeen...I'm a liar-Sorry.
What to do? As a writer, you need to figure some things out as you go along. Things like, how to write well, and how to form appropriately ordered sentences with a vocabulary that best reflects your level of high education, and most importantly, how the heck to follow an important piece of writing that analyses a specific and influential part of our world with another piece of writing of any kind...
October 2009
6 posts
Chapter Sixteen...Broken Numbers
Ten thousand words into this blog, and nine weeks into this journey. Those are both significant numbers. I’ve been on the wild side for quite some time, and it feels like it. The numbers begin to have power. Eight countries, heading now into our ninth. Four currencies, heading now into our fifth. Thousands of miles, by bus, by plane, and by train. Millions of faces, billions of eyes,...
Chapter Fifteen...I'm Lovin' It!
“We had barely left the prairies in my heart since—we never moved an inch. Does the love grow home with the wild rose?—The sun’s moving out here.”
The Rural Alberta Advantage – “The Ballad of the RAA”
Something of time if captured in music that stems from the heart. Musicians have the talent of portraying life in a way that all are welcome to participate in the listening. It’s like breathing,...
Chapter Fourteen...FTB (F*** The Bus)
Another bus to another city in another country. The wild side is tiring, but tolerable. To a point. I have not reach that point of zero tolerance, but I definitely see the option approaching on the horizon. I already feel sorry for that poor soul that catches me at the wrong time on the wrong day in the wrong mood. Zero tolerance, we’re only human, all of us. And living with the same 40 other...
“People who do nothing other than be in love are perhaps more serious and holier...”
– Vincent Van Gough
Chapter Thirteen...We're All Screwed Up
When the Lord walks on the wild side he stays close, and speaks softly. He says: Listen to this, this is important. “In the way of righteousness there is life, along that path there is immortality.” Jesus is our advocate, and the holy spirit is our compass and our eternal guide. There are some things in this life that are too hard to answer. There are times when we are overwhelmed and even...
Chapter Twelve...My Most Sincere Apologies
I think that if you are reading this you are owed a particular debt of gratitude. Most likely if you’re here, you’ve to some degree liked what you’ve so far. So I thank you for taking the good with the bad, the writings with the rantings, and the emotions with the experiences. Thanks.
Anyway so today we’re heading out of Paris into Normandy to learn all about WWII first hand, from the beaches of...
September 2009
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Chapter Eleven...The Most Important Thing I've...
In a far off land. I swear I’m still Jet-lagged. Or Museum lagged. I’ve had a bit of trouble sleeping the last few weeks. It’s funny, actually right now is he first bed I’ve slept in since we left that my feet don’t hang off the end. Maybe it helps, maybe not. I’m thinking of the phrase chosen by Dave Eggers to begin his novel A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. “I am tired, I am true of...
“A Goose in a Cesspool, A Swan in a Pond.”
– Sam Eldredge
Chapter Ten...Self-Discovery
Perspectives on life: Rostrevor. We are now in the airport in Belfast, Ireland, and this is the first time I have written in the last five days because I needed a break. I’ve felt burnt out, mostly because I’ve been so excited about spending this semester writing and making the best of my time by chronicling it on this blog and writing poems and many other side projects. But this week has been a...
Chapter Nine...Dear London
Anxiety, Fear, Wonder, Excitement… Just a few of my emotional responses to my current stimuli. Recently I finished writing my first legitimate short story. The title of this story is “The Knight and the Castle Wall” and it has been met for the most part with positive responses. Honestly, I don’t know what I’m doing—writing. I feel like no one ever does until they’ve been at it for years or...
The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Air
Walking - 9/8/09
The short old girl dressed like Austin Powers.
This mismatched couple in both race and size.
The man who’s looking at another man, scratching his nose.
The lanky man in combat boots holding bananas.
The casual woman with a cigarette and dignity.
The lost old woman.
The boys, cough. men from the firm.
Some hold things, mostly purses and cigarettes.
Except for the tourists, pockets full of...
Chapter Eight... Learning and Racism
Thoughts and Actions, distance, education, spirituality, friendship, culture, literature, smiles, communications, learning, hearing, seeing, feeling, learning, touching, seeing, smelling…
My experience thus far has been a very enriching one. It’s funny because when you go on trips to study abroad they are usually known for less work, and more fun. But what I am quickly realizing is that a...
The best song I’ve heard on this...
“I mean this in the best way possible, but… you look like a character from...”
– Lizzy MacRae
Chapter Seven... Theology 101
I’m sitting in class listening to a famous religious philosopher named John Hick. Who is apparently the most important religious philosopher of this generation. He is 87 years old, and was most likely one of the first modernist pluralist thinkers that the world saw. His backbone observational point is that in the world abroad and throughout history, religious beliefs, systems, claims, and faiths...
August 2009
8 posts
Chapter Six... Justinian Glenn Davis
“Consider it all joy my brethren when you encounter various trials.” The man who spoke these words was truly a man of strength and conviction. I often find myself erring in my perceptions of our biblical heroes, especially with Christ, in that I never really appreciate the fact that they are fully human. I’m just a boy, recently turned man, who has never really known a hard life. I grew up well...
Chapter Five... Renaissance
Renaissance… Relatively easy to say, but very hard to spell. In my studies this summer in preparation for this trip I was faced with the daunting challenge of giving individual attention to the changing and evolving complete historical periods of Western society. Basically it was 30, 25 page chapters of raw information, names, dates, and events that have each indicidualy had a profound impact on...
Chapter Four... Reflections on an Education
My first time back in class in a while, it’s good to be a student. I just finished up writing an in class essay, and honestly I think this is the worst time for me to be graduating. I grew up home schooling, so when I first went to High School in 11th grade, there was a substantial learning curve when it came to essay writing and standardized testing. When I was in home school, we didn’t really...
Chapter Three...My Three Dimensional Flat
Here I am in a single bed flat on the tenth floor of a London High Rise Residence Hall (Yup, dorm rooms). Unfortunately I had to ask a few times how to get to my hotel…excuse me, residence hall. The problem was two-fold. Right off the station I went right instead of left, I was familiar with the area, but my familiarity gave way to my curiousity and for lack of better judgement I was looking at...
Chapter Two...Is it okay to brag about myself?...
I’m going to be famous someday. Everybody says that. But I’m not everybody. I’m me. I’m generally kind, usually agreeable, I don’t enjoy fighting or yelling, but still enjoy conversing about my opinions, and I’m not like people who speak about stuff they know nothing about. Of course we’re all guilty sometimes. But for the most part, if I don’t know I’ll keep my mouth shut. And I don’t get all...
Chapter One... A View to an Adventure
So first I suppose I should name this thing. The first thing that comes to mind isn’t very artsy and I’m sure there have been many blogs that shared this name before. “Jude Law and a Semester Abroad” is the name of a song by Brand New. I think I’m going to shoot it down in favor of something more individual. I love when writers make up really quippy plays on puns and title their books and papers...