Welcome

Greetings and salutations.

This is my blog, your one stop shop to get information about all of my Romanian adventures. I'll do my best to post here as often as I have something to say. That could be as often as every day or as little as once a week.

If there are specific things that you want to know about, then feel free to ask lots of questions. If I can't answer them, then at the very least I'll make up a fictional story about why I couldn't get the answer.

For starters let's give you some dates.

December 20, 2010
This is my approximate move out date. The plan is to move back into my parent's house for Christmas and New Year's, and then to fly out to Romania from there. I'm not planning any big fancy good bye parties, so make sure to let me know if you want to hang out before I leave.

January 7, 2011
This is the date I fly out of LAX. I leave Los Angeles at 7:55am. From there I head to Washington DC, then Munich, then Cluj. I have no idea how early I'll have to get up that day. LAX is at least two hours from my parent's house, and I have to get there a couple hours early to make sure security has enough time to properly invade my personal space. Does that mean I have to wake up at 4am? Ug.

Next, let's give you a picture of what's going on in my head.
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FREAK OUT!
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Excited!
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Excited?
FREAK OUT!
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lower case freak out.
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Speria! (Freak out in Romanian!)

And to wrap this up, let's give you some prayer requests.
1) I could use some prayer about my college loans. If I can't find a way to pause my payments while I'm in Romania, then that is going to add an extra $3,000 to my expenses. Yikes.

2) I could use some prayer for my support letter. I have this terrible feeling in my gut that I didn't write a very good letter, and no one is going to support me.

3) General prayers are always welcome.
Pray for wisdom to recognize Satan's attacks. (See #2.)
Pray for strength to call on Jesus continually, both when I'm weak and when I'm feeling fine.
Pray for everyone else that's going on the same trip I'm going on.
Pray for the Romanian team.

Countdown to Romania: 27 days