Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Run for the Border
I got back last night from my trip to the border of Mexico and the USA. We crossed from the city of Reynosa in Mexico to the city of McAllen in Texas. It took us about 12 hours each way, so it was a long drive, but not too bad. I went up with Dennis, for the purpose of picking up books for the school. If you’d like to see some pictures from our trip, you can visit his website. It is like a blog, but unlike mine, he actually posts on his regularly. I am no longer in the habit of doing that. Actually, it was never really a habit; there was just a brief period at the beginning when I wrote a lot. Here’s his website address: www.ymimexico.org. There are some crazy pictures of me when we were having fun with the shutter speed on his digital camera. By the by, on his website there is a link called “Tour the House!” which has pictures of my house where I live. They actually lived here for a few months before I did. So you can click on that to see where I live. The site has a lot of pictures of the school and the students there, in addition to pictures of his work teaching youth ministry at the Mexican Baptist Theological Seminary.
We had a good time on the trip. I ate riblets at Applebee’s, a grilled stuffed fajita at Taco Bell, and a cheeseburger at Logan’s Roadhouse. I also got a couple of cd’s and movies. I now own all the Star Wars movies on DVD, so I’m pumped about that. Am I a nerd or what? Today at school I played Trivial Pursuit: Lord of the Rings Edition with some of my students. Yeah, I’m a nerd. I didn’t win though, so my nerdness isn’t perfect yet.
I am so tired now. I am worn out from the trip, and from school today. I don’t have any gas for the water heater, so I can’t take a hot shower, so I am going to take a cold one before I go to bed tonight, which I am hoping will be before 8:30. So this’ll be all for now.
We had a good time on the trip. I ate riblets at Applebee’s, a grilled stuffed fajita at Taco Bell, and a cheeseburger at Logan’s Roadhouse. I also got a couple of cd’s and movies. I now own all the Star Wars movies on DVD, so I’m pumped about that. Am I a nerd or what? Today at school I played Trivial Pursuit: Lord of the Rings Edition with some of my students. Yeah, I’m a nerd. I didn’t win though, so my nerdness isn’t perfect yet.
I am so tired now. I am worn out from the trip, and from school today. I don’t have any gas for the water heater, so I can’t take a hot shower, so I am going to take a cold one before I go to bed tonight, which I am hoping will be before 8:30. So this’ll be all for now.