Friday, January 16, 2009

Crunch Time


The past two days school has been canceled because of cold weather. Which sad for me because I was scheduled to sub of those days.

But living in Iron River is never dull even with cold weather. Last Sunday the Sr High youth group went up to the Paulding Light. We had alot of fun with the light. Many theories were construde about how the light came to be. We surprisingly kept warm (hiking toward the light helped). Here is a picture of everyone enjoying some hot chocolate out of the back of the van.



So last weekend I realized that I had not gotten any of my vaccinations yet. Whoops! Of course, this past week has been me scurrying to figure out what I needed to get and where I could get them. I have to get many shots: hep. a & b, yellow fever & tyhpoid (i decided to skip out on the rabbis one) and some yummy malaria pills. The vaccinations have been a little bit stressful to think about because they are so expensive but I suppose less expensive then if I was to actually get one of the diseases they are protecting me from.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

here are some pictures

So one of the many fun things I have gotten to do during my time in the UP is shoot a gun...i shoot twice and my shots are the bottom two. :)















I also get to hang out with Laurel...we are friends. This is Laurel being the West Iron Wykon mascot at a football game this fall.















So there you go (Kevin), I have now posted pictures! YAY i'm a great blogger!!!

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

So Far So Good

In a month (minus one day) I will be on a plane to Ecuador. As time is closing in I am getting excited and nervous. My first concern is my Spanish level (which I am working on). My other concern is how comfortable I feel in Iron River. But even with those things weighing heavy on my mind, I truly feel that this is something that God wants me to do. Why? I'm not sure but I guess that is not always for us to know.

soon i will try and post some pictres up here but at it has not been a month since i have written :)