Archive for January, 2004
- Justice
What is Justice, exactly? And how does one truly seek it and promote it? This theme of Justice has been repeating itself in my life lately: in discussions, books, articles I read, noomas, and the online sermons I hear from my home church. God is Just, and we are to seek to be like Him. [...]
- A list of things
What I love about life in Madrid (in no particular order and non-exhaustive): The weather. It is the middle of January and it was 60 degrees and sunny today! The plants: most of the trees are non-deciduous and stay green all the time. The grass has also been green since end of September and flowers [...]
- Ideas and dreams
ideas and dreams Over the past several weeks, Samuel and I have had many discussions about our future. These talks seemed to stem from a meeting we had with a British business owner who has resided in Spain for 18 years. We sought her advice in regards to our English Immersion Weekend business plan. She [...]
- . . . dreams
If you didn’t read the previous entry from January 19, to do so may help you understand where I’m coming from as I write this. As I had mentioned, I had been feeling a bit uneasy about our previous course: namely, to pursue our business venture of Volao Communications. It was not only because of [...]
- Our Nine Mile Hike
On Saturday, January 10, we joined one of Samuel’s students and the hiking group he’s a part of on a 9-mile hike! It was a beautiful, sunny day. The weather was perfect – in the 60′s. It was a relaxing walk through the foothills about 40 Km north of Madrid. The hike brought us to [...]
- Todo el Mundo les gusta una Cabalgata
The following are some images from La Cabalgata de los Reyes (the parade of the Kings), taken January 5. Unfortunately, many of them were quite blurred due to the movement and the darkness. We joined half a million others to watch the parade and catch some of the 15,000 pounds of candy that was thrown [...]
- Nochevieja
Prepping for the party and posing with Isabelle and Tama. We did make it down to Sol – or at least within 20 meters of it! The crowds were thick and there were some crushing moments, but the police did well to control the crowds. We weren’t able to see anything, though later learned there [...]