So, on Thursday I caught some sort of funk that my body has been fighting all weekend. It’s the sort of thing that wears you out and you don’t want to do anything else besides watch tv, and well, I don’t have a tv here in Slovakia, so instead I’ve been watching season one of Heroes since Friday night. I’m nine episodes deep and I’m hooked. All this, I think is good news for Aaron on my team who has been trying to get me to watch Heroes and Amazing Race for quite some time. I also caught up on the most recent episode of Lost, but I’m still waiting for the writer’s strike to be over for a new episode of The Office, it’s killing me without Jim, Pam, Michael, and Dwight in my weekly life. I’m loving how similar these two shows (Lost and Heroes) are even in their advertising.

interesting, no?

In addition to that, I’ve had time to read friends blogs, and get reaquainted with the news in the world in which I live. I’ve been trying to stay clear of election stuff, mainly because I don’t want my mind clouded with political mumbo jumbo until time is closer to the actual election.

So, I’ve found several interesting stories, one on Nicaragua, which interests me because it’s the place where my friend Courtney is currently serving on her world race. The article is about the massive amounts of cocaine which wash up on the shores daily in this small town in Nicaragua.

I also found this, a website created by a guy with a great idea he wants to present to google. He’s trying to figure out what it will take for them to hear him out. The website was born about a year ago. His story is fascinating, I’ve been watching and reading it most of the morning.  It’s inspiring and more than that, is laid out into three chapters, which Aaron Stanton, creator of the website labels as “sharing ideas, building ideas, and releasing ideas” I don’t know about you, but to me, it sounds an awful lot like “win, build, send” the ol’ three-fold philosophy. This idea from, Dr.Bill Bright, is timeless and ideas that are manifest in the most enterpreneurial minds of our day.

So, there are a lot of things I still want to update you on and even more things that I want to make videos about, hence why my mind is swirling. Here are a few:

1. The weather (4 days of sunshine in a row, major praise)

2. Smoky Mountain Dancers, Kosice (I’m in a linedancing class that is taught in Slovak, videos sure to come)

3. Language School (the frustrations and victories of learning Slovak)

4. Ministry (students are back February 18th, but we’re planning all next week)

5. My failed attempt to switch to wordpress.org