Check out this blog for inside info about New Orleans: http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/globetrotter611/

photos coming soon... :)

In February my friend Brad (who I found out has tons of patience) tried to teach me how to snowboard. We started out nice and early, leaving his place with 3 of his friends at 7am and making it to the mountain by 8am. After about 7 hours of snowboarding I discovered first-hand why so many boarders spend so much time sitting on the side of the ( Read more... )

Photos from a 3-day weekend trip (Feb. 11-13) to the popular tourist spa towns of Beppu and Yufuin (on eastern Kyushu).

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Promise Korea pics will be up SOON!

Also - think I may be sending out viruses from my yahoo account, so if you get a strange attachment from me, beware...

Am finally starting a Japanese language course tomorrow. Also started helping tonight with a musical that a nearby Lutheran elementary school is putting on in March.

Just a quick update b/c of the earthquakes & tsunamis in SE Asia that all is well in South Korea. I have several friends in Thailand and Malaysia, and have heard that 4 are ok, but waiting to hear from 8 more ( Read more... )

Photos from Christmas Eve: http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeAN2TNu4asWTDxA

Heading to South Korea for Christmas (Dec. 25-Jan. 1). Have fallen behind on responding to emails and updating my journal, but plan to do both after the 1st. Will spend Christmas Eve in Kumamoto City with several friends who will not have taken off on their holiday travels yet. We'll all go out to dinner, then to my church's 11pm Christmas Eve ( Read more... )

Can't believe it's December already!!!

Latest updates:

Nov. 14th - Okinawa photos

Nov. 15th - Handicap School visit & photos

Nov. 20th - Paragliding & photos