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Well, hello Dan, I remember you. Where have you been young one?
Things have actually been surprisingly calm around here. We've managed to avoid killing each other. LOL.
Things have actually been surprisingly calm around here. We've managed to avoid killing each other. LOL.
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Well, about this time last summer I decided I needed to take a sabbatical from the Petra Zone since I felt it was becoming an obscession and I needed to focus on more important things. But this "sabbatical" turned out to be an entire 12 months of not posting. During that time I completed my senior year in high school.
I will maybe tell you more about my life these last 12 months, but I have to leave for awhile. I'll probably log back in later today, this evening. Thanks a lot for welcoming me back.
Now everynoe can relax. I'm not dead! (ha ha)
I will maybe tell you more about my life these last 12 months, but I have to leave for awhile. I'll probably log back in later today, this evening. Thanks a lot for welcoming me back.
Now everynoe can relax. I'm not dead! (ha ha)
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well here goes a long schpiel
I'll probably spend hours typing this since i have so much to say. If you are not patient enough to read it all that's okay with me.
First of all I changed my user name so I am now seichu kaisho instead of yamasaki moto. Why I chose that? Just because it's a two Japanese words that sound cool. I don't know what they mean.
This past fiscal year has for me been rather tough, with lots of tribulations. I'm just so glad I got through it all. I was impatient to get through my senior year. I had good times, but there was always stuff that drove me nuts.
Last August I went to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico (Nuevo M�xico) for a ten-day hiking trek in the mountains. Not exactly something fun, but I'm glad I took the challenge. Camping out for ten nights in a row sure helped me to improve on my tent-setting-up skills, something I was never good at in Boy Scouts. High altitude made cooking difficult and gave me killer headaches. It rained every afternoon. But hey, I had good times.
Senior year: a longer test of patience. Some of my classes were good, others were stupid. In my English and Psychology classes, I had to write about a thousand essays. I had depression problems a lot, though I have been on medication.
Of course, I stayed in the band program - marching band, symphonic band, pep band, jazz band. (I play trombone.) In November 2003 I was in the Iowa Allstate Band for the second time, 2002 being the first. In late December I traveled with the entire marching band to Phoenix, Arizona where we marched in the Fiesta Bowl parade and performed our field show. I really enjoyed it.
June 4 - 16 I went to Guatemala with 31 other youth and adults from my church. We toured Guatemala City and Antigua and then stayed for a week at the Esmirna church (La Iglesia Esmirna) in a small town called San Antonio Aguas Calientes. My five years of learning Spanish really paid off; I helped translate and even conversed with some of the Guatemalans (guatemaltecos). Our service project was mainly construction work at the Esmirna church and school. The people there were glad to have us come, and I met so many wonderful people. Over half of my group got sick, and I was in that number. I had a bad stomach ache from food poisoning when we left Guatemala. Not fun walking around in an airport with constant pain and sleep deprivation, let alone flying planes for hours. I lost all my appetite during that time. The smell of food was nauseating. Fortunately I recuperated after a few days.
Maybe I'll have more to tell later but that's it for now.
Hey, if any of you have cool stories about things that happened in your lives, feel free to share them!
First of all I changed my user name so I am now seichu kaisho instead of yamasaki moto. Why I chose that? Just because it's a two Japanese words that sound cool. I don't know what they mean.
This past fiscal year has for me been rather tough, with lots of tribulations. I'm just so glad I got through it all. I was impatient to get through my senior year. I had good times, but there was always stuff that drove me nuts.
Last August I went to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico (Nuevo M�xico) for a ten-day hiking trek in the mountains. Not exactly something fun, but I'm glad I took the challenge. Camping out for ten nights in a row sure helped me to improve on my tent-setting-up skills, something I was never good at in Boy Scouts. High altitude made cooking difficult and gave me killer headaches. It rained every afternoon. But hey, I had good times.
Senior year: a longer test of patience. Some of my classes were good, others were stupid. In my English and Psychology classes, I had to write about a thousand essays. I had depression problems a lot, though I have been on medication.
Of course, I stayed in the band program - marching band, symphonic band, pep band, jazz band. (I play trombone.) In November 2003 I was in the Iowa Allstate Band for the second time, 2002 being the first. In late December I traveled with the entire marching band to Phoenix, Arizona where we marched in the Fiesta Bowl parade and performed our field show. I really enjoyed it.
June 4 - 16 I went to Guatemala with 31 other youth and adults from my church. We toured Guatemala City and Antigua and then stayed for a week at the Esmirna church (La Iglesia Esmirna) in a small town called San Antonio Aguas Calientes. My five years of learning Spanish really paid off; I helped translate and even conversed with some of the Guatemalans (guatemaltecos). Our service project was mainly construction work at the Esmirna church and school. The people there were glad to have us come, and I met so many wonderful people. Over half of my group got sick, and I was in that number. I had a bad stomach ache from food poisoning when we left Guatemala. Not fun walking around in an airport with constant pain and sleep deprivation, let alone flying planes for hours. I lost all my appetite during that time. The smell of food was nauseating. Fortunately I recuperated after a few days.
Maybe I'll have more to tell later but that's it for now.
Hey, if any of you have cool stories about things that happened in your lives, feel free to share them!
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Wow, you've had a busy 12 months. Sounds like you got some things accoplished that would otherwise have taken second place to posting on the Zone, so it's a good thing that you took this sabatical. At least you got your schooling in, hehehe, and you had fun on your trip with the band. That's always something you're gonna remember.
Yeah, NM has high altitude, we live in NM and I know about the headaches. Even though I've lived here for over 20 years, I still get them at times.
Your Guatemala trip was quite something, too bad that you had to end up getting sick, that's not fun at all.
I enjoyed reading about what you've been up to latel, thanks for sharing.
Yeah, NM has high altitude, we live in NM and I know about the headaches. Even though I've lived here for over 20 years, I still get them at times.
Your Guatemala trip was quite something, too bad that you had to end up getting sick, that's not fun at all.
I enjoyed reading about what you've been up to latel, thanks for sharing.
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cabezas manzanas mosquitos chiquitos hablamos fritos
(Dang it! My computer erased my message before I sent it so I have to write this all over again. piece of junk) 
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At least I didn't puke ( ha ha ha! )
While there in Guatemala, my church group was told not to drink the water there because of bacteria and other bad stuff. We drank water out of bottles, kinda like those Aquafina bottles.
In Guatemala City and Antigua, street vendors (vendedores) flocked up on us, holding up jewelry and cloth articles on their arms, begging us to buy something. ("�Quiere usted comprar? S�lo un quetzal.") We always had to tell them "No, gracias" or "no queremos comprar nada" but we felt pity for them. I conversed with one, asking her if she had a lot of daily business and she said no. I'd be bored to tears if I sold stuff on the streets all day for a living. Not my passion. I can only hope that those people make enough money to sustain a healthy and enjoyable living. Perhaps they are used to living that way.
We visited a small town called Chichicastenango, which I did not like. It was one of the most boring, mundane, worldly, chaotic places I've ever been to. It was packed-crowded-full of people: one tienda (small store) after another, and vendors and buyers all over the place. Pagan worship and witchcraft rituals. While in Chichi, everyone in my group was safe because we stuck together as a group and held onto our quetzales so no one robbed us. Yet it was a terrible place.
Someday I'd like to come back to Guatemala. I was elated to come back to the US since I was in Gu8atemala for such a long time. But I hope that maybe in a few years I can visit La Iglesia Esmirna again. San Antonio Aguas Calientes was a nice town, and all the Christians there were very friendly - even the kids! The members of the Esmirna church were so ecstatic to have us stay with them, that they cried when we left. I was glad to leave SAAC so I could visit other places, but my heart broke when I saw the sadness in their faces.
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At least I didn't puke ( ha ha ha! )
While there in Guatemala, my church group was told not to drink the water there because of bacteria and other bad stuff. We drank water out of bottles, kinda like those Aquafina bottles.
In Guatemala City and Antigua, street vendors (vendedores) flocked up on us, holding up jewelry and cloth articles on their arms, begging us to buy something. ("�Quiere usted comprar? S�lo un quetzal.") We always had to tell them "No, gracias" or "no queremos comprar nada" but we felt pity for them. I conversed with one, asking her if she had a lot of daily business and she said no. I'd be bored to tears if I sold stuff on the streets all day for a living. Not my passion. I can only hope that those people make enough money to sustain a healthy and enjoyable living. Perhaps they are used to living that way.
We visited a small town called Chichicastenango, which I did not like. It was one of the most boring, mundane, worldly, chaotic places I've ever been to. It was packed-crowded-full of people: one tienda (small store) after another, and vendors and buyers all over the place. Pagan worship and witchcraft rituals. While in Chichi, everyone in my group was safe because we stuck together as a group and held onto our quetzales so no one robbed us. Yet it was a terrible place.
Someday I'd like to come back to Guatemala. I was elated to come back to the US since I was in Gu8atemala for such a long time. But I hope that maybe in a few years I can visit La Iglesia Esmirna again. San Antonio Aguas Calientes was a nice town, and all the Christians there were very friendly - even the kids! The members of the Esmirna church were so ecstatic to have us stay with them, that they cried when we left. I was glad to leave SAAC so I could visit other places, but my heart broke when I saw the sadness in their faces.
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Wow, quite an experience you've had in Guatemala. Yeah, things and life are quite different with our southern neighbors that's for sure.
We are in Mexico right now on a mission trip to help a church put a roof on the pastor's parsonage and repair damages inside the church's fellowship hall and class rooms. They live in very simple circumstances and we took a trip around town today to where some of his church folks live. It's quite a surprise to drive out into dirt hills to see houses built out of pallets, cardboard and other materials with dirt floors, some with no real windows and doors that are made out of cloth. "Bathrooms" that are outhouses and the "toilet' is two old rubber tires stacked on top of one another. Yet the people who lived in that one house we visited where so hospitable, they'd give you the shirt of their backs! A lesson that we, who compared to them could take a lesson from.
What's really cool that this house had a scripture written on the side of it really big....right onto the particle board siding of the pallet house. They love the Lord and they work hard to eventually build a real house....but yet they are content with their circumstance and they are so amazingly clean people. Very cool to have had the privilege to meet them.
It's really an eye opener when we go to other countries, we see the good, the not so good, the bad and the awful. Some places you gotta worry about your life, in others you feel out of place and in others you learn to find that people need Jesus and that the ones who are in Christ, are just like you in their hearts......it's really cool to find family everywhere, even in the most humblest circumstances........
We are in Mexico right now on a mission trip to help a church put a roof on the pastor's parsonage and repair damages inside the church's fellowship hall and class rooms. They live in very simple circumstances and we took a trip around town today to where some of his church folks live. It's quite a surprise to drive out into dirt hills to see houses built out of pallets, cardboard and other materials with dirt floors, some with no real windows and doors that are made out of cloth. "Bathrooms" that are outhouses and the "toilet' is two old rubber tires stacked on top of one another. Yet the people who lived in that one house we visited where so hospitable, they'd give you the shirt of their backs! A lesson that we, who compared to them could take a lesson from.
What's really cool that this house had a scripture written on the side of it really big....right onto the particle board siding of the pallet house. They love the Lord and they work hard to eventually build a real house....but yet they are content with their circumstance and they are so amazingly clean people. Very cool to have had the privilege to meet them.
It's really an eye opener when we go to other countries, we see the good, the not so good, the bad and the awful. Some places you gotta worry about your life, in others you feel out of place and in others you learn to find that people need Jesus and that the ones who are in Christ, are just like you in their hearts......it's really cool to find family everywhere, even in the most humblest circumstances........
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sin espa�ol, un viaje a latinoamerica ser�a un gran l�o
Do you know how to speak Spanish, Sam?
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No. I know a few words and learned quite a few more this past week, but not enough to communicate, that's for sure. Thank the Lord we had several people along with us in the group that spoke Spanish, so they helped Warren and I translate.
If you go to my website under NEWSLETTERS, you'll see a "Ministry Update" there that tells a bit about our experiences down there.
I did end up singing a PETRA song in Spanish, "Creed" (Credo), which was very interesting. I know how to pronounce the words when I read them and Yoli (Yolange Renaud) helped me with that a couple years ago, when she visited me during the Christmas holidays. According to the pastor's wife down there, I did really good. She said I was hesitant on some of the words and for me just to sing and not be afraid. Well, easy said than done, hehehe. But I think the people were blessed and that's what counts the most.
The last nite I got really brave and sang the most difficult PETRA song there is to sing in Spanish. Te excaltamos (We Exalt Thee). HAHAHAHA, it's only two words............I was able to handle THAT!
If you go to my website under NEWSLETTERS, you'll see a "Ministry Update" there that tells a bit about our experiences down there.
I did end up singing a PETRA song in Spanish, "Creed" (Credo), which was very interesting. I know how to pronounce the words when I read them and Yoli (Yolange Renaud) helped me with that a couple years ago, when she visited me during the Christmas holidays. According to the pastor's wife down there, I did really good. She said I was hesitant on some of the words and for me just to sing and not be afraid. Well, easy said than done, hehehe. But I think the people were blessed and that's what counts the most.
The last nite I got really brave and sang the most difficult PETRA song there is to sing in Spanish. Te excaltamos (We Exalt Thee). HAHAHAHA, it's only two words............I was able to handle THAT!
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DAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I MISSED YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (this is elo) I was afraid that maybe you didn`t know about the change. I`m so gadl you are back!!!!
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...He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in His love, He will joy over thee with singing...
Zephaniah 3:17
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