Dear Reklaw Ffej,
I do not need a tagboard! That's why I have a place for you to post a comment. They're like the same, man!

Holy Crap! All of a sudden there are pictures on my blog site. This cyber cafe at the CCDA conference is awesome. I can download stuff and do some many things that are prohibited at like a public library. This is the way public computer systems were meant to be. I hope everyone likes the massive amounts of stuff I'm adding. I might as well get it all out now. I probably can't do this anywhere else.

On a completely unrelated topic, I have to crap!! BRB

For all my rebel friends 

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Here's a quote to ponder:

"The problem in the inner city is not the darkness that we all fear, but the problem is the lack of light. Darkness can't overtake light. You see, darkness is the constant. It exists everywhere light isn't taken."

Larry Teem
President, Atlanta Youth Project

My Mission Year Team
top left: Travis Grow, Dwayne "D-Dawg" Volckmann, Ryan Gallagher
bottom left: Crystal Steckel, Meghan Dewees, Jennifer Pelham

So I'm volunteering at the CCDA conference. Feel free to check it out at www.CCDA.org . They have a "cyber cafe". Freaking great. I've been meaning to post a blog...and this time there's actually words, too! It's been enjoyable. We packed all these gift bags yesterday and alphabetized all the name tags at the regristration desk. There's over three thousand people coming to this conference. We put together that many gift bags and organized the same amount of name tags. Can we say "Carple Tunnel". It was great though. The rest of the guys took the bus home. But I snagged a ride from Leroy, Mission Year (MY) leader guy, with all the girls from MY. We had Jake's IceCream. I had "Brown Shugah Vanilla". The icecream was great. And it was just me and the lady friends. Man, there's nothin' like being surrounded by beautiful women and eating icecream after a hard day's work. I am blessed! Thank you God!!

Here's a short story I read:

There is a story about a university professor

who came to a Zen master to ask him about

Zen. Nan-in, the Zen master, served him tea.

He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept

pouring. The professor watched the overflow

until he could no longer restrain himself. "It

is over-full. No more will go in!" "Like this

cup," Nan-in said, "You are full of your own

opinions and speculations. How can I teach

you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

Out of Solitude (Three Meditations on the Christian Life)
by Henri J.M. Nouwen

....Yeah, so that was an interesting experience. I had to wait another 10 minutes to use a computer. I wanted to log back in but right then but someone reserved the same station I was at.
Anyway, things are going well in Atlanta. My team and I are doing well. Everyone seems willing to work on our differences. I want to be more accoutable with my team leader. Unfortunately, it's difficult to share certain things with someone of the opposite sex. But I really don't have to worry about it because Mission Year thinks of almost everything. We all have our own accountability partner. My accountability partner's name is Mark. He's from New Zealand. You call tell by the accent, and the fact that he says, "Hi, I'm Mock, and I'm from New Zealand." We like picking on him. One of my teammates is Meghan. And Mark always calls her "Meegan". We point out little thinge that we think are funny. He thinks it's fun. Because he picks on alot of our stupid english words.
I've met some nice people in our neighborhood. I'm going to try and remember there names: Mr. and Mrs. Haygood, Mr. and Mrs. Springs, JC, Robert, Miss Grice, Mike, DJ, Jameel, Quartez, Piere, Cornelious, and some other kids. I'm starting to develop some relationships with people. Hopefully they will become close friendships. We've got ten months left. There's plenty of time.
My volunteering consists of working for a community development office from 9am-2:30pm, Tues.-Thurs.. I will be building relationships with churches and other organizations on the community that can help support the redevelopment of South Atlanta. From 2:30-5:30pm, Tues.-Thurs. I am volunteering at an after school program for K-6 graders at the Bethlehem Senior Center a couple of blocks away from my home. Fridays are devoted to working with the Community Design Center. It's basically an engineering firm that helps non-profits design their buildings. I will be doing computer drafting for them. The same thing I was doing at my old job.
I need lunch. I'm heading out for a bite. Hate to cut this short but I have an appointment to get to. I hope you and God are doing well. Tell Him I said hi. Peace...Zone 3, baby!!!

Ah...A new blog template. How refreshing.

So, I'm here in Atlanta. No, to be specific, the Downtown Library in Atlanta. It's monday!! This is a good thing. Modays are my day off. My Sabbath, as it is called by the Mission Year-ians. I thought I would go to Peidmont Park today. But then I thought about changing my blog around a bit. So I headed off to the downtown library. I was waiting for a bus by my house, when a lady drove up and rolled down her window. It was a lady from my new church (Salvation Word of Life Ministy). She gave me a ride to the library. It was nice of her. So now I sit here blogging away. Realizing that I did want to go to Piedmont Park.

Piedmony Park is beautiful. There's alot of open lawn, paths, trees, benches, and even a pond. I like feeding the pigeons, ducks, and fish. It's relaxing. But lately there's an alterior motive to my desire for the park. I recently aquired a boomerang. It was a gift from The Family Store where I occationally volunteer. It's a cool thrift store. And yet it's alot more than just a thrift store. But more on that later...Speaking of later, my time is running out at this computer. I need to go reserve another one. I want to keep blogging. Be right back......