• Man, I missed this place. For all its Google grandeur, this Blogger template has a soft place in my heart. We have history together…we’ve been through fires, floods, and international cross-town traffic together. Now that our apartment is nearly "completed", we are firmly entrenched in Chinese culture, and we’re back "online" again, my hope is…

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  • our apartment complex

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  • looks like utah

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  • We’re here. Tired, frazzled, in the midst of a complete apartment extreme makeover project (namely ours) but we’re here! We’re glad to be here, but we’re going a mile a minute. Well, the good news is that I can access Blogger from my new home country… The bad news is that I can’t see what…

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  • We fly tomorrow. I wish I could say that we would be in our new city at the end of the day, but we actually have an overnight layover before we arrive in our new city on Monday. Yes, more pushing/pulling of luggage carts! I am not sure where we will be living. We’ll be…

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  • My word for the month: irony. i·ro·ny – incongruity: incongruity between what actually happens and what might be expected to happen, especially when this disparity seems absurd or laughable. Earlier this week I felt very fortunate. Christa and I got our visa paperwork in to the Consulate one day ahead of the rest of our…

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  • Did you expect pictures of the Johnson family riding on the backs of smelly gargantuan elephants? Yeah, so did I! I’m bummed… Anna suspiciously started to lose her voice the other day; then she got a fever; then she had bowel symptoms you’d rather not hear details about…etc. Needless to say, I was optimistic that…

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  • Thanks for the prayers, encouragement, and empathy regarding our flood experience. It was very brief and we were very fortunate to get out of it without getting wet (or worse!) Here is some info I got from the Bangkok Post regarding the flood: It was the worst flood in this area (maybe the whole country…I…

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  • Rain, rain on my face hasn’t stopped raining for days my world is a flood slowly I become one with the mud but if I can’t swim after forty days and my mind is crushed by the crashing waves lift me up so high that I cannot fall lift me up… (when I’m falling) lift…

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  • flood…do we look worried?

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