So I started swimming!! it's great, I really enjoy it! I hopefully when I start working I will still have time to swim often, or rather at all! Anyway, my schedule for classes seems tolerable at most, and I have yet to fit three different jobs in there!!! what hell! Anyway, we all hope for the best! Yikes. Well, I believe I have close to no ( Read more... )

You know that feeling when your heart starts to race and everything seems to leave and go far far away from all of your senses and the only thing you can feel is the stress building in your body and you feel like you might lose the capability to breath soon, but there is no way to stop it all except for crying a lot. Yeah, its kind of like that ( Read more... )

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Here are some pictures a friend has been uploading on snapfish...yes they are all from Ecuador and they are all worth looking at!

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So I promised kayla that I would attempt to update. This might me disapointingly short. But, anyway ( Read more... )

So Sunday morning I left Janesville to arrive at the OHARE airport to begin my trip to Ecuador. I am currently in Miami. FOr those of you who didn't know, I couldn't get my VISA in Chicago in time, so I left a couple days early in order to get the VISA in Miami. My VISA is complete. YAY! I pick up my ViSA tomorrow morning and leave tomorrow ( Read more... )

Ying Yang
Congratulations! You scored -3! You are a paradigm of balance between your Masculine and Feminine sides, which is what most people strive to be. Most of your aspects - tastes, habits, and style - reflect a certain equilibrium that makes you who you are. You can get along with a variety of personalities without totally clashing, because ( Read more... )

There is so much left to do before Ecuador and it all waits on what I cannot control. That is the worst. Sometime in the next two weeks I need to go down to Chicago to get my VISA taken care of because the stupid Doctor failed to mail Blood tests to me...lame. Well, so I have to take of yet another day of work to do more business before I leave ( Read more... )

So, today I saved the world. Well, perhaps not the world, but rather a potentially large portion of grass being uncontrollably engulfed in fire. Yes, I noticed a 2 square foot portion of very dry grass start on fire due to a rather uninformed man who flicked a portion of his cigarette butt onto the overly-dried grass. As the flames spread I ( Read more... )

So Saturday was really fun. In the morning Zach and I went to tutor Rosalinda (8) and Carlos (6) at their apartment. It was so much fun. I love Rosalinda and her spirit. She desperately wants to learn so that she can catch up with her classmates. I truly hope that she will have retained what we learned and what we were doing. I hope that she ( Read more... )