Hollerstown Hill Frederick

... I'm committed to going to China. There is absolutely no backing out now! I also booked my hotel room in Hong Kong. I was originally going to try to stay at the Peninsula or the JW Marriott. I also looked into the InterContinental. All of them were a bit outside of what I'm able to save for the trip. Then I looked into the two Langham hotels: the Langham and the Langham Place. The Langham is in Tsim ...

This afternoon, we did a show at a Youth Ranch. It, like Thursday morning's school, is an alternative educational facility. We didn't go as a part of the school day, however. Arn leads a Bible study there with some of the kids, so we showed our video as part of it. So we were able to show, for the first time, our evangelistic version. There were only four kids there, and we projected the video on the bare wall. It was small scale, but just as important as an auditorium full of kids. Kinda ...

... the floor, face down. Then we had to crank up the volume to uncomfortable heights. You see, the deaf like to feel the music, even if they can't hear it. Well, they felt it all right. So did our speakers. Come to find out, we were blasting sound above the safety threshhold for our equipment. Two speakers blew. A week later, and I'm still working on fixing them.
But anyway--nothing against the school. It was an ...

... scream like agghhhh! or something, no... a high pitched, little girl, temper tantrum, idon'tknowwhatyouwantmetodorightnowi'ms oconfusedandscared scream. You had to be there, really.

Eventually they figure out what is wrong with me, and they nicely usher me onto the right plane. Phew. I sit beside a nice blonde lady and we flip through the sky mall catalogue and talk about boys the whole way home.

The customs agent tries to charge me for my second bottle of vodka. I ...

Today we just had one school, but three shows throughout the day. Between shows, Kelsey and I had a nice talk with Arn (our host). We talked about life, finances, marriage, careers...
I realized that we're rarely in one place long enough to be able to sit and talk with someone for so long. Ordinarily, we come into a school, do our thing, and leave. But lately, we've established some ...

Today was our first day with YFC in Frederick, Maryland. We're staying with the Bjorndals--a nice long stretch of a homestay. Their daughter is getting married within the year, so we've been able to share some of our recent experience with that process.

We're sticking to our standard busy schedule--about two schools a day this week, and we're doing the same sort of thing as we did in Scranton ...

... One interesting thing that I ate on the plane was a bowl of instant ramen noodles. Never seen this before. I guess they do this for all flights into Asia. One other interesting thing I noticed as I looked out the window was that it was daylight the whole flight. Well that certainly won't help with my inability to sleep on planes.

... of white wine and bottled water. Limoncello for an after dinner drink. 22.30 Euros. Osteria dell' Orsa Via Mentana 1F University District My hotel recommended this to me. I had a simple lunch of their pasta Bolognese, which was excellent and 1/4 liter of red wine. 8 Euros. Trattoria Marisposa Via Bertiera, 12 (across the street from Hotel Paradise where I stayed) I dined with two ...

We delivered Friday morning at Tamko in Frederick, MD. This was another difficult back because there were a bunch of stacks of pallets out in front of the docks. After we delivered we got a dispatch to pick up in the same place. The shipping docks were very tight because they were made for flatbeds, but there was plenty of room to get straight in front of them so that was good.

... us. Everyone is ****** at us in line because my boss, has cut all of us in front of them, with all of our enormous luggage! But we make out alright and go through security and find food. There was a little drama with some things, but it got worked out, or at least dealt with at the time, and then I had my last minute phone calls... and we boarded the plane to Chicago for our first stop! (I slept the entire flight, with my iPod on, and my fun pillow!) I'll write more later! Kelly