Two Thousand and Ten

Above: Mexico January 2010, Hawaii December 2010

 

What  year this has been, i would if dare to say this has been one of my favorite of my 20 or so so far, i not that it defiantly ranks up there. From the very begging of this year so much has happened, so many trips, so many adventures, and so many good memories. Met so many new people who I am positive i am going to know the rest of my life. experienced God is so many new ways…

January:

Mexico, the first time this year. What a crazy trip this was. Around thursday of our annual week at the mission the heavens opened up and the rains poured down. There was a good 2 to 3 feet of flooding, the main street turned into a rushing river. We had to rush into action sand bagging all the entrances to the buildings and trying divert the water another way. In the end around 5 bridges were washed away on our route home, so we were stuck there for and a couple extra days.

February:

The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver BC. That was such an amazing fun outreach. Our team only went up for a couple of days to support the DRIME team my sister was leading to the street of the over packed city. It was just so much fun, we took the new sky train into the city everyday, we supported the DRIME team while they did their thing, I got to jump into the couple of dramas i new from other outreach. We were out on the streets on one of the craziest nights, the first Canadian-American hockey game, that was crazy people everywhere celebrating everywhere.

March:

Well i turned 19, and i started to prepare for my up coming departure into the world of ywam. There was still a lot of fun events though,I hung out with Magi and participated in all the st patricks day festivities in Seattle then saw I  my friend Kirsten Irish step dance. I saw sanctus real in concert again, oh then i went to one of the best shows i have every been to. I saw Jamie Cullum at the Moore theater. If you don’t know who Jamie Cullum is go look him up right now, seriously.

April:

I left April 8th for the 2010 PhotogenX Dts in Kailua-Kona Hawaii. I love that place, so much. We had the best dts in my oppinion, but then i am a little biased. This world was different but not completely used to what i have grown up doing, each week we had different speakers, we had fun exploring the big island.

May:

The middle of lecture phase, still going strong waking up at 7:45 then going to class at 8:00. It was a good life i lived then, it would just get better though. There was some hard lecture weeks, but then they were overshadowed but the completely amazing weeks. This month we also found out our outreach team, I was going to India with a team of 20, Crazy i know.

June:

Lecture phase was winding down, and we were preparing for outreach more and more, not my favorite thing to do, but that’s ok. As our time winded down in Hawaii i wanted to spend as much time as i could with all these really close friends i wasnt going to see for 3 months. Love feast was amazing one last big party before we left for outreach.

July:

We left July 1st from Hawaii and arrived in India on July 3rd. Flying to japan then to Singapore then to Chennai and then a 5 hour train ride to Dharma Puri my home the next 3 months. Oh yes i should mention that this was the first time i met jaylene in person at the airport in Chennai. It was a good month we spent half of it in Dharma Puri working with pastor Daniels and all of his ministry’s, then the other half in Vallore with Pastor Caleb. For this first month i would say i liked Vallore more, I’m not sure why. So many good memories happened in vallore we got to know each other even more. We climbed the mountain the last day of july, the perfect way to top the month off.

August:

Such a good month, at this point we split the 20 of us up into two teams and the south team was formed and we formed a family right away. We all loved Dharma Puri and we got to choose more of the ministry’s we worked with, I loved working with pastor Daniels orphanage and with Sanjay. Our team bonded together and took every excuse we could to have ice cream together. That month we painted all of the inside of our pink house and even brighter shade of pink, we took mutable trips to Chennai, Vallore and salem, and ended the month off with a trip to Ooty.

September:

We welcomed this month in staying Ooty the cold mountain town for a couple of days. We really didnt go there to do a lot of ministry so we mostly just relaxed and had fun the whole time, we went to a arboretum, to a mountain view-point and just hung out with each other. Our time in India was winding down, it was really hard to say good bye to all these people we had got to know so well, a lot of tears were shed. We went to singapore for a few day before we went back to hawaii for debrief week. Singapore was great an amazing city, We spent the first day or two getting rid of some friends that came with us from India. It was a great time we got to go to the beach, walk around the massive shopping malls, then Me and Jaylene rode the Singapore flyer together, that was a lot of fun. We eventually had to go back to Hawaii, it was nice to see all of our friends again, i was slightly distracted at that point though. That week i told Jaylene i liked her and we left it like that.

October:

I went through the normal after Dts emotions it helped that i had Jaylene to talk to. We continued to just talk a lot over skype and Facebook messages. Then on october 12th, her brother made a comment about me being her boyfriend and we hadn’t actually talked about that yet. so we promptly called each other and talk, and by the end of the night we were officially dating.

November:

I helped with the Seattle harvest a huge evangelical event in downtown Seattle. Just continued to prepare for the 2011 track in january trying to raise the money. not too much happened in november. On the 26th i left to return to Hawaii to see Jaylene for the first time since we were dating. You can look in the archive for those first few days. It was a great reunion.

December:

The 50th in Kona was so much fun, i got to be with Jaylene the whole time, we barely left each others side the whole two weeks. I got home on thursday, got sick friday, then left for mexico on saturday night. Fun times, i was sick till Wednesday, but i didn’t do a lot till thursday of that week. Then we took a little trip to Disneyland with Stu and Brenda after mexico. That was so much fun, it rained the whole time but that just ment shorter lines for all us folk from washington who were used to being out in that weather. We made it back for christmas with our family, and now were are preparing for our annual New Years Eve Party at our house.

This year was amazing…