Showing posts with label home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

News!

I have two fun bits of news for you all!

First, my friend Bethany asked me to guest post on her blog, here. It's a part of a series on her blog about food as art. See what you think! Its my first-ever guest blog.

Second, in about 24 hours I fly out to spend two weeks at home with my family. I'm so excited to see family and friends. 

Sunday, February 12, 2012

366 Project, Week 4

What a start to a year! In the first 6 weeks, I had a whirl-wind visit home, got really sick, didn’t re-contract and crashed my car. I’ve managed to keep up with most of the 366 project photos, but I haven’t been so good about posting them.

During week four, I finished with the weird illness I had again.

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(22/366) I continued to be sick and spent tons of time reading on my new Kindle. Since I was around my house, I decided to see what happened if it ran out of batteries, entirely. The photo above is the result, and the only photo I took that day.

(23/366) Continued illness and an unhelpful doctor’s visit – it was decided even after I got really sick that I had a cold.

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(24/366) What does one see all day when they’re sick on the couch? Oneself, of course! Here are my jeans.

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(25/366) My new winter jacket. One of the reasons I liked it was the textured pattern it had.

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(26/366) Back to school – finally! This was on my beautiful drive home from the school that is the farthest from where I live and I love the drive.

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(27/366) I signed my contracts today with a pen similar to this, it was a hard decision. I will be leaving the JET program in August and most likely Japan, too. I’ll be sad to leave my town, friends I’ve made here and to not be able to study Japanese so easily, but I’m super excited to be back in a place where good friends don’t live so far away.

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(28/366) I met a friend in the town near mine today. The sky was so bright and the LCD screen on the back was so hard to see, I decided to shoot in raw. This is the first photo I’ve taken from start to end in editing in raw. The clouds that day were so amazing.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Coming home

It's been a little while since I updated my blog. Updates about the past couple of weeks to come soon, but first . . .

I'm coming home for Christmas next week!!!

Or for an exact time until my plane in Sapporo takes off:



It's going to be fun to see my family. My mom told me this evening that my littlest sis had said that one of the reasons Christmas is her favorite is because she gets to see me. I can't wait to see her and give her a hug!

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Home

Today I messaged some friends on the insanely long train on the way back to my apartment. I called it “home.” Does that mean I am becoming more at home here? It took me a while to call college home after moving there for the school year, that town definitely became my home over time. It was hard to leave that “home” for Japan.

“If home is where the heart is
Then my home is where you are” – Relient K

Has the Lord put my heart here? What does he desire me to do while I’m here in this tiny town? In what ways will he use me?