Monthly Archives: July 2005

Honey Creek Trail

Today’s trip got off to a much later start than normal. It was planned that way though. Just before our hiking adventure, Michele was going to be passing through town, so Jon, Mer, and I had lunch with her. It was good to see her. Had to leave kind of early...

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A New Day is Coming and I Need A Ride

This year Mike, Jessica, and I are going to the National Campus Ministries Seminar at the University of Oklahoma. Mike and Jessica will fly out on Wednesday afternoon because Mike has a Campus Crosswalk meeting. I am not flying out until Thursday afternoon…
So if anybody could give me a ride to the airport...

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As I expected…

… my luggage didn’t make it on the plane to Knoxville. I kinda figured it was going to happen. Switching airlines from American to Delta with only 1 hour… So hopefully it comes today. Oddly enough… I had two orders of pictures from Walmart.com. I did one order of 149 on...

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Yeah! No Injuries

Even after a night of blowing stuff up, we managed to make it out of Brazil without any injuries. I guess the UTKNOX has to thank the team from Lubbock, Texas team for taking both of the two required injuries for the year. Kristy took the required Buggy injury (Chad) and Tim took...

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Final Party and Bye Bye

It saddens me to write this post… but tomorrow I will be getting my flight to arrive back in the United States. We fly out of João Pessoa to Recife to São Paulo to Miami to Dallas. In Dallas we spend the night because we have the end meeting with LST. After...

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It’s a No Fly Zone!

No Tafanie, we aren’t laughing WITH you, we’re laughing AT you.
After finishing our reading sessions on Thursday, we were going to go over to Joey and Edda McKinney’s house for dinner and to spend the night. Their house is very nice, but has on big problem… BUGS! The other morning (Chad, Amy,...

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Yesterday Was a Long Day

As my previous post stated, yesterday morning started out very early. We set our alarms for 4:00 so we would be ready for Julian to take us to Cabo Branco to see the sunrise. Afterwards, we came back to the school and went back to sleep for a little bit. It still...

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The Sun Rises Early in João Pessoa

Julian is one of Jesse’s readers. Last week he took us to the fort at Cabedelo and to Jacaré. Yesterday he showed up at the school because he wanted to take us to Cabo Branco to see the sunrise. As I have mentioned before, Cabo Branco is the furtherest point east of...

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Mostly Reading Sessions

Well today was mostly just reading sessions. I had 8 on my schedule, but only 3 showed up. Of the three that showed up though, 2 signed up for more time later this week. The friendships I formed last year seem stronger this year and I am forming new friendships. Its...

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Party Time!

Saturday was the second of our free days. We started off the day by going to Hiper Bompreço (a big superstore kind of like Wal-Mart, actually its owned by Wal-Mart). We went there to get some groceries for the next few days and to get ice cream and stuff to make cookies for...

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