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Sorry for taking four days off but I’ve felt as if there hasn’t been much to blog about lately. Good things are happening with Lent and I’ve been praying for various things, but I haven’t felt too motivated to write. (Finally) language study will start up again soon…and to be honest I can’t wait for…
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Feel free to laugh. Christa wasn’t laughing though!
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…for whom (parent vs. toddler) is still a heated debate.
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I just finished the book Eldest by the young writer Christopher Paolini. This is the second book in his Inheritance Trilogy–the first being Eragon. At face value, I found the book to be very entertaining and easy to read–a page turner if you will. It’s not what I would consider especially ground breaking or drastically…
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Well, I’m back from the latest journey–bathed, fed, and relaxing on the couch. To be honest I’m pretty wiped out. The trip went pretty well, but it was quite a lot of hiking for a "city boy" like me. It took about four hours to get to the mountain village pictured below and it took…
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our gift to the village…
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Adjust your packs, ladies and gentlemen. I think there were some important lessons learned (from my perspective) on this trip. The main one: the only predictable thing out here is that things will be unpredictable. Our hopes were to meet with the village leaders of this remote town called Karong. My friends that I was…
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looking a bit sheepish, boys
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more mountain vistas
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This is a picture of the village leader’s brother (second to the youngest of the five). We were welcomed into the village leader’s home where we were served tea (pretty salty) and a scrumptious dinner. The Hat people eat a lot of mutton and noodle dishes. They served a lot of fresh bread during our…