Who’s your candidate?
Repeatedly over the last few days I have been asked by different Europeans, “Who do you think is going to be the next US president?” Its a touchy subject and as we saw with recent stock market events when Americans even think about making a change, it affects much of the world.
So, have you figured out who you are voting for? If you haven’t check out this website –> Glassbooth.org. After setting some values and taking a short quiz, it will match you up with the candidates that rank in those areas closest to you. It will even give you the reasons that it matched you with that candidate. Now I don’t know how accurate it is for everyone but for me, it says my likely candidates are John McCain and Barack Obama (one of which really is who I am seriously considering voting for – but I prefer to keep my opinion to myself on that matter).
So go check out this site and you Americans, make sure you go out and vote. Not everybody in the world gets to so make sure you do.
Its been one year since…
It’s been one year since we arrived in Germany. Can you believe it? It’s gone by so fast yet we feel like we’ve been living here a lot longer than 1 year. One of the cool things was this morning I got to get up (actually it was too early) and go to the Zurich airport (I got to see the sunrise up over the Swiss Alps). There I picked up some of our GEM missionaries who were coming back after a few months in the States. They flew in on the exact flight we had taken one year earlier. So in a way I felt like the people that had come and pick us up last year.
Another cool thing is next week, the latest member of the eDOT team arrives and we get to help her and her husband get settled in. On our team we have a policy that the last one in helps the next person as you (supposedly) remember more about what its like to be the newbie. Its been fun looking at apartments (and now understanding more of the German) and trying to remember all the things we did when we first showed up (impossible to remember it as you are going through jet-lag, culture shock and just overwhelmed by everything that you have to do in a language and culture that you don’t understand).
So with that being said, would you pray for our new missionaries. They still have some more support to raise in this last week (if you interested in maybe supporting them, check out their website here) and are going through their good-byes. Then they will have their transitions to do. Thanks.
Some people say that I “love Windows”
I don’t know if I shared this one before or not. But a while back one of the guys around here had too much time on his hands and redid our photo that we keep here on the blog:
Just for the record: I have found pros and cons to all the operating systems I work with and yes, I own a Mac but I run more than just the Mac OS on it.