Home?

Well, I'm home at last! It's not everything I remember but it feels so good to be home. I got in around 5:45PM last night, after a massive ordeal at the airport! I only was allowed 20k of weight and I had 65k, so I upgraded to first class allowing me only 40k of weight, I then dumbed some books taking my weight down to 55k and pleaded with the clerk to let me in, which he did. I bypassed the whole welcome home party thing and had a nice little dinner with two of my best friends, parents, sisters, brothers, neices, and nephew. oh, it was so good! yucca, plantains, chicken, blackbeans and rice... I'm back in my element! I then jumped on my new machine and began trasnfering files and watching some anime. lol, can u say homebody!

Today I've been playing it low, not calling anyone, not really going to see many people. I don't want a forceful rentry, I'm going to assese the situation and enter in my own time. I went by my church to drop my sister off adn said hi to the office stay, who were elated to see me and ask if I was finally home to stay. The drivers down here are crazy, everyone runs the red lights without camras attatchted to them, and everyone was honking and yelling at me for driving the speed limit. Oh well back to the rush rush culture of Miami. I then embarked on a shopping trip with on of my BF(not boyfriend, one of my bestfriends)we were looking for a DVD for his GF. we went to the three main malls in my area and one anime store none of which had it, so we finally ended up finding it at the tiny mall(about the size of york dale) around the corner from my house. I had some great cajun food at the mall TOO! Bourbon chicken with some jambalya rice and plantains, baby! after that I went to by a game and a book only to find out that I have completly forgot my pin number! all in all it was a pretty uneventful day. No adventure so far...

As soon as I landed yesterday I could just feel all the oppression here. Toronto made me really soft in my ability to resist certain strong holds. Everyone one here acts like their poor and needing more, when that is really not true at all. they have this take, take, horde, horde, survive, survive, mentality. So when I flew into that I began taking it on right away, worring about jobs, cars, money. But I quickly identified the stuff and was like this ain't me, I never worry about this stuff so screw it all, everythings gunna work out. But it seems like everyone around me is thinking, "wow going up there made you so behind on your studies", "look what kind of job I got while you were up playing ministry", "what you think you'r better than us now?", "are you a threat?", overall the same old same old. But I never really let that kind of narrow minded crap get to me and it ain't going to get to me now, so I'm just chilling and relaxing for a few days while casually looking for a job and maybe going to stir the minds of the traditional thinkers in my church witha little bit a aggressive debate. Is this really still home, do I have a home besides the Father's arms and my families company? well I'm off to do some work adn watch a movie... more to come tomorrow... which should be an adventure because I actually have part of it planned out. well its so late and I'm so tired I can barely type, not to mention spell. peace out

6 more days...

Wow, only six more days till I'm back home and only 3 more days till my birthday! The year and a half that I've spent here has just flown by so incredibly fast. When I came up here I was 19 now I’m going home I’ll be 21! Spending that year and a half here has changed me in so many ways, I haven’t even been able to comprehend all the changes in me yet. It has been great living at TACF and meeting so many wonderful people, but it’s time for me to go home, to start moving in my own ministry, career, and bringing what I’ve learned and experienced here down to South Florida.

Out with the Green and in with the Anime!

I finally got rid of that puke green template, well not really rid of most so I just altered it into an anime template, changed around some colors with photo shop and CSS and add a few new pics. Now all other blogs will bow down to my blog! j/k not really.

People should be RED!....

About this time yesterday I was sitting in the auditorium lounge, bored as hell, starring at a bunch of markers. While starring at the markers I had a brilliant idea, people should've been kool colours like red or sky blue, instead of these earth tones that everyone is. So to experiement with the idea of people's skin being kool colours I picked up a red marker and started coloring myself. When I had finished coloring my entire foot I noticed that I was using a perminent marker, big mistake! So I found another marker that was similar color red and a little less hard to clean off and began with my hand, I couldn't do much else because I started running out of markers, damn cheap marmac markers. But here are the results, try to image a completely red person, with cool eyes too like maybe blue on blue instead of the usual blue on white.





Arn't I sexy in red?

Been a while...

It's been a while since I lasted posted. I've been sidetracked lately with massive amounts of programming and learning. I've been reading every book on web dev that I can lay my hands on particularly .NET and PHP centered books and of course MSDN's Developers Center. XML has really caught an interest in me, at first it seemed so simple then when I started getting into SOAP, XSLT and other things it was more challenging and lots of fun. I have rarely had time to spend with friends and things of that sort. I've been stuck in a logical analytical mind set, which means I have a hard time socializing. Logical and rational thinking do not flow well when socializing, especially with right brainers.

Recently my contemplations of been focused on one of the three fundamental questions of life, our meaning for existence. My thoughts on this keep going in circles and the only thing that keeps me on track is my faith. At times I can’t keep myself from thinking life in itself is meaningless, I look at a typical person’s life and ask myself “what does it accomplish”, they learned, sustained their life through work, experienced joy and sorrow, and reproduced and in turn their offspring does the same, a cycle which usually does not benefit the greater good for humanity nor does it seem to accomplish anything besides continuation of the cycle. We have barely achieved anything in the past few thousand years, yes drastic technological advancement and social reformation has occurred, but have we evolved as humans, do we operate in a higher level of cognitive thought? We have increased in knowledge but are we anymore wise than Solomon or the Greek philosophers? We still have wars, we still steel, we still need, we still have irrational and massively inefficient bias. The only think in this monotonous cycle that is worth living for is God.

If you would like to comment(anyone and everyone) on what your thoughts are on the above paragraph, I want to know what others think on this. It would be greatly appreciated.

Oh I recently took the Life languages test online and guess what I’m a contemplator! Had you all fooled didn’t I!

School 18 Grad

Grad for school 18 was actually pretty fun. The food was ok, well it was good. I sat a the Volunteer table, where all the volunteers and Luis sat. It was nice watching everyone get so excited about graduating from the Heart module. Later their were smoothies, from Carlos (thanx man I havn't had a good smoothie in a while, damn Canadians just don't know how to do it like us tropical boyz), ice cream over waffles(never heard of that till I got up here), and cheese cake taht was actually pretty good, not to heavy not to light. following the desserts there was dancing to music with out curse words and perverse lyrics (there goes all the fun, j/k). I didn't see much of the dancing cauz me and the Diaz boyz were to busy enjoying the prank the girls pulled on them in their room.



Right before the dancing started Juan went into the room to find it was covered with paper shreds, he sooon after found me nad Jose who dove in it and then began throwing it every where. We had a great time with the paper, thanx gurls! Later on at night I dressed up in my skin tight black overall things(found them in the lost and found), a dull gray hoody, black gloves, and ski mask. I then stealthly followed Elinor back to her room, once she was in her room I attacked her & Sarah(swedish one) with my trusty squirt gun cauzing them to scream and me to retreat, mission accomplished. Even later on Jose and Juan threw most of the paper shreads in to blankets to dump in Elinor's room, while I scouted out Elinor's room, but I found a locked door and when I tried going over the wall I found a make shift roof, which I then tried to dismantle but found it made too much noise, then I was going to cut a hole in it but that would have made to much noise also, so we aborted the prank and ended up sleeping on the paper instead. (paper shreds are very comfortable to sleep on when you have sheets over it)


The Diaz boyz and I




Diaz room with paper




Chilling in the paper




Jose at a table.




Juan and I



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Leader's School Graduation

Oh I miss you all so much! thanks for the pictures Steve.

Leader's Grad Pictures


Me




Steve and Andrea




Dan


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Outreach teams are back!

The Kaos builds as more Outreach teams come back!(I like that spelling of Chaos by the way)It started with Lissa and Brooke formulating an devious plan to soak their entire outreach team, they told their whole team they were having a meeting to give them money back then they proceeded to soak the whole Team Seattle once they were all gathered. The Diaz clan launched an all out assault on the poor out numbered small group leaders Brooke and Lissa. I helped them break into the office where they left a trail of water marks all over the floor and cubical walls as they sought to over come their victims with Latino power. Soon after the Diaz boyz turned on one of their own, Andres, They pursued him to the farthest reaches of Marmac until Juan running as fast as he could while holding up his pants threw a bucket of water at him causing him and Juan to both slip then fall, Juan sliding into the dishes under the toaster and breaking quite a few of them while cutting himself and Andres just falling. Luis and Jose then came up and soaked Andres who then began profusely screaming in Spanish. Ahhhh... reminds me of home.

Watery awakening.

Around 2:00PM this morning Dan Slade woke me up when he opened my door and looked in my room. I immediately thought he was going to get me to go somewhere so I threw on my cloths and walked out of my room right into an ambush, Sarah D., Elinor, and Dan started firing at me with squirt guns, the early morning dulled my reactions so I got hit twice before closing my door, I then climbed into Sean's bunk to observe the enemy and their positioning from the view over my wall, they were close and I knew I could make short range weapons capable of reaching them, and frantically looking for a weapon other than my empty squirt gun. I found a cane, I don't know why I had a cane in my room but it was their, and I began swinging it wildly out my door trying to clear a path for myself to the showers but I ended up throwing it at Dan after I got capped in the face, I then was back to frantically looking for a weapon in my room and then I saw it, WD-40, a perfect weapon I then quickly found matches and went out my door welding a short range flame through, the enemy retreated back out of my range, and theirs, but then my match went out and I was forced to retreat back into my hold, I then was again frantically looking for another weapon I found a bunch of tacs and duck tap, which I could turn into a mace if I could find a stick but by then the enemy had realized my superiority in warfare over them and began to go mad shooting each other so I then came out and threw some water at Elinor and Sarah, then I took a shower. THE END.