Friday, December 24, 2010
new camera!!!
Thursday, December 16, 2010
3 months to go! and counting
I am getting so excited! Guam is so close yet so far (not it really is far but you know what I mean). I cannot wait to be back home. I miss the people, the relaxed atmosphere and the beautiful scenery. So please come visit me when I get there so you can taste what I have.
So for the next few months aside from my spiritual activities, I've got pack&shipping,tweaks to details of the wedding, work (last day is February 28th!which is bitter sweet), and of course all the family&friends arriving for the wedding. I can't wait to see you all that can make it-and for those who can't we will have pictures for after (we want you to be able to experience it too).
So for the next few months aside from my spiritual activities, I've got pack&shipping,tweaks to details of the wedding, work (last day is February 28th!which is bitter sweet), and of course all the family&friends arriving for the wedding. I can't wait to see you all that can make it-and for those who can't we will have pictures for after (we want you to be able to experience it too).
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
inspiration
so i have finally decieded to slowly post my guam story from the begining how i wanted to but never really had it happen-i know it was 2 years ago but i thought i should get every caught up so once i'm ack in guam the storyline can continue with out everyone going "huh?"
so if anyone read the june 23, 2008 post (the begining of our adventure), then these pictures and tales are what happened proceeding then.
my congergation
this was noth guam congergation who while i was there split into north & machano (i was then in machano). actually in the picture there are some missing. this was taken at our first gathering- it's so nice to get togther with all the friends and enjoy the brotherhood.
sun setting
whats service without hitting the beach after? the above girls (left to right) : abby d. (who recently moved to australia to expereince the organization there), myself, katey b. (my long time friend who was my travel buddy), and erica the wonderful sister who let us stay with us and became our roomie( she is now married to a brother from the marshell islands and they were set right after getting married to the marshell islands to be special pioneers).
so for all three of you girls if your reading this-hollar! i miss you all adn think of you and the good times we have had.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
engaged!
Where to begin? I feel so far behind, or rather that so much has happened. In June Josh came all the way from Guam to visit me and meet my family, which they all seemed to like him-i think he passes. On June 4th he proposed after finally getting permission from my dad! We set a date of March 12th 2011 to be happen here in florida followed by my return to Guam with Josh . Unfortunatly, Josh had to go back to Guam and we deal with the long distance and major time change.
At present, me being the really organized one has most everything planned for the wedding and also my moving back to Guam (I am so excieted!). although i do believe all the little detail after-thoughts and not being able to have things completed NOW, just might kill me!
So for all of you trying to keep up with my life and where-abouts, here is a list of places you can find me:
At present, me being the really organized one has most everything planned for the wedding and also my moving back to Guam (I am so excieted!). although i do believe all the little detail after-thoughts and not being able to have things completed NOW, just might kill me!
So for all of you trying to keep up with my life and where-abouts, here is a list of places you can find me:
- this blog here
- picassa photos
- flikr photos
- https://sites.google.com/site/joshuaandabigail/ (our wedding website-has pictures or will soon)
- and either my gmail or yahoo email (with chat &video chat)
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
my trip to kentucky!
For all of you who don't know, both sets of grandparents live in Kentucky now-one set near Nashville on the southern end and then the other near Cincinnati on the northern border. It sure is beautiful out here-I forgot how much I do love the country and it's in my roots.
It's been a whirlwind trip but fun and so great to see all the family. I flew in Wednesday to Nashville, left Friday to drive 4 hours north to my other grandparents for a wedding on Saturday night. then Sunday after the meeting i drove back 4 hours south to the other grandparents and i fly back out Wednesday!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Almost...
So we are still in the rental on the river-which I really like, but our short visit is coming to an end soon. We only have about a month and half let before back to moving. I will miss living closer to things especially closer to the hall-makes early morning service easier:)
But for now I will enjoy the beautiful view on this cold, crisp winter day....in Florida!
Monday, June 23, 2008
the begining of our adventure
So our journey across the world began bright and early Monday morning, I unfortunately didn’t have much sleep anyways from the excitement. We managed to leave the house without mom crying and dad talked the whole way. Dad told us he was just droping us off, and that is just what he did. He got out tipped the guy and told him to take care of us and started to leave-we had to ask for hugs! Security was easy but they made me go through a machine that blows air up, I had a skirt on but they warned me. It was strange to say the least. Everything went smoothly, the sun was rising while we waited to get on the plane. The flight to Houston was funny cause I was in the middle and the guy next to me was on the isle and you could tell he was very uncomfortable. By the time we arrived I didn’t feel good, probably from the coffee on an empty stomach. I was nervous about getting to our gate but right off the plane there was a woman that told us it was the gate next to us. So we had time to get food. It looked like it would be a full flight by all the Japanese people waiting too. Nerves and excitement were in full action. It was better on the plane to Tokyo since it was bigger. We were in the middle, there was an older Japanese man that sat next to me. A couple minutes later his wife came over talked to him, saying something about him sitting with the boys and then she proceded to sit next to me with a grin. Now mind you I like to fly but what took place after this point was one of the longest, tourcherest things that I will have to do again. I just kept thinking-I’m glad I won’t be doing this again for awhile.
We were on a newer plane so we had nice personal screens for music, movies and t.v.-the options were amazing. The woman next to me slept and kept watching the same movies over and over again. I think she watched becoming jane like 4 times in a row! My attention span anyways is terriable, but I couldn’t stick with any one thing. I did manage to watch 4 full movie,1 ¾ of the way through and parts of 2 others. I played a few games but got irritated quickly and watched t.v. episodes. We had this running joke through the flight cause everytime we in the middle of watching something they would pause it to talk over the intercom. Not only does that make you irritated but a they ended and you prepared to resume your watching they would again pause it to repeat what they had said in japenese. “wait for it”, became the phrase. Some book reading insued but was hard to concentrate. I kept watching the progress screen which never seemed to move. At one point it seemed we had been flying forever and I turned to Katie and told her only 9 more hours to go to Tokyo! She looked at me and almost cryed. Later on she turned to me and said- I changed my mind, I wanna go home. This was followed by us braking out in laughter. At one point I got up to put something away in the overhead bin, as I was reaching up I felt someone’s hand graze across my bum. It shocked aww I turned my head only to realixe it was a little old woman who had been walking the isles with her hands up to make her presince known. Because she was so short her hands and head came up to my bum! We had a good laugh. By the time we were almost to Tokyo we had both slept very little and were getting punchy and irritable.
Getting off the plane we headed to find our gate, we found an area were katey’s name was on a board. I was mad thinking they had maybe moved her to first class. Turned out they had just moved her seat to match mine. They directed us to where we had to go through security once more. The airport workers all had these adorable little matching outfits and were all so nice. We wanted to get something out of the vending machine, since we heard that is a big thing there. I looked at katey and disappointedly said-man we have to have yen! Our hopes dashed and not much time to wait, we found our gate and watched the dreary weather outside. I was worried cause they kept announcing things but we couldn’t understand them. We got on the plane and katey promptly fell asleep. I started to till they announced there were forms to fill out and the food cart was going by. This was like the fourth time they had fed us which we were not expecting. When the lady came by with food she leaned over me and woke katey up with the words-“chicken or shrimp”? she looked up startled and replied sleeply. I couldn’t help but sniker. Soon after we both fell asleep, this being the first of sleep I had had in like 24 hours.
When we arrived the sirport was dead and we were the only plane coming in. we had to wait forever for our luggage but thankfully it arrived not damaged. We went through customs breezy. We were greeted by Emily, john and jo. I nearly cried, it was so good to see something familier and to be on the ground again. They took us to the branch were jo gave us a tour while we waited for Erica. The tour took all of 10 minutes if that, it is sos small but we love it. Jo proceeded to tell us that we would get to work in construction. We were excieted except we were not really prepared for that. By this point we were exhausted and alittle nervous to meet Erica cause we didn’t know what she was like. The instant we met her we were put at ease, she is as normal as us.
We felt at home with her especially since when we got to her place we dumped our stuff and fell asleep.
The very next moring Erica was going to the branch for one of the days she commutes in. we decieded instead of sleeping in, to get up at 5:30 to go to morning worship and our first day of work at bethal. It was great to be there and so very different from bethal in new york (any of them). We pretty much met the entire family that morning. At work a brother had us mix concrete for a project for him. Everytime he asked us for a batchhe would liken it to a type of food like oatmeal or cream of wheat. We fit right in. We had fun and kept saying that only in jehovah’s organization could you being doing physical work and be so happy because of why and who your doing it for. Later that evening after work. The brother’s wife took us and Emily out for a swim, perfect ending to the day. It was so cool cause we were at the public beach and there was coral that you could snorkel and see all the fish and life under the water. The sister also took us to k-mart, which is supposed to be the biggest one (I don’t know how true that is). It was big but strange the veriety of stuff it sold including furniture and appliances. That night we defiantly slept good that night.
We were on a newer plane so we had nice personal screens for music, movies and t.v.-the options were amazing. The woman next to me slept and kept watching the same movies over and over again. I think she watched becoming jane like 4 times in a row! My attention span anyways is terriable, but I couldn’t stick with any one thing. I did manage to watch 4 full movie,1 ¾ of the way through and parts of 2 others. I played a few games but got irritated quickly and watched t.v. episodes. We had this running joke through the flight cause everytime we in the middle of watching something they would pause it to talk over the intercom. Not only does that make you irritated but a they ended and you prepared to resume your watching they would again pause it to repeat what they had said in japenese. “wait for it”, became the phrase. Some book reading insued but was hard to concentrate. I kept watching the progress screen which never seemed to move. At one point it seemed we had been flying forever and I turned to Katie and told her only 9 more hours to go to Tokyo! She looked at me and almost cryed. Later on she turned to me and said- I changed my mind, I wanna go home. This was followed by us braking out in laughter. At one point I got up to put something away in the overhead bin, as I was reaching up I felt someone’s hand graze across my bum. It shocked aww I turned my head only to realixe it was a little old woman who had been walking the isles with her hands up to make her presince known. Because she was so short her hands and head came up to my bum! We had a good laugh. By the time we were almost to Tokyo we had both slept very little and were getting punchy and irritable.
Getting off the plane we headed to find our gate, we found an area were katey’s name was on a board. I was mad thinking they had maybe moved her to first class. Turned out they had just moved her seat to match mine. They directed us to where we had to go through security once more. The airport workers all had these adorable little matching outfits and were all so nice. We wanted to get something out of the vending machine, since we heard that is a big thing there. I looked at katey and disappointedly said-man we have to have yen! Our hopes dashed and not much time to wait, we found our gate and watched the dreary weather outside. I was worried cause they kept announcing things but we couldn’t understand them. We got on the plane and katey promptly fell asleep. I started to till they announced there were forms to fill out and the food cart was going by. This was like the fourth time they had fed us which we were not expecting. When the lady came by with food she leaned over me and woke katey up with the words-“chicken or shrimp”? she looked up startled and replied sleeply. I couldn’t help but sniker. Soon after we both fell asleep, this being the first of sleep I had had in like 24 hours.
When we arrived the sirport was dead and we were the only plane coming in. we had to wait forever for our luggage but thankfully it arrived not damaged. We went through customs breezy. We were greeted by Emily, john and jo. I nearly cried, it was so good to see something familier and to be on the ground again. They took us to the branch were jo gave us a tour while we waited for Erica. The tour took all of 10 minutes if that, it is sos small but we love it. Jo proceeded to tell us that we would get to work in construction. We were excieted except we were not really prepared for that. By this point we were exhausted and alittle nervous to meet Erica cause we didn’t know what she was like. The instant we met her we were put at ease, she is as normal as us.
We felt at home with her especially since when we got to her place we dumped our stuff and fell asleep.
The very next moring Erica was going to the branch for one of the days she commutes in. we decieded instead of sleeping in, to get up at 5:30 to go to morning worship and our first day of work at bethal. It was great to be there and so very different from bethal in new york (any of them). We pretty much met the entire family that morning. At work a brother had us mix concrete for a project for him. Everytime he asked us for a batchhe would liken it to a type of food like oatmeal or cream of wheat. We fit right in. We had fun and kept saying that only in jehovah’s organization could you being doing physical work and be so happy because of why and who your doing it for. Later that evening after work. The brother’s wife took us and Emily out for a swim, perfect ending to the day. It was so cool cause we were at the public beach and there was coral that you could snorkel and see all the fish and life under the water. The sister also took us to k-mart, which is supposed to be the biggest one (I don’t know how true that is). It was big but strange the veriety of stuff it sold including furniture and appliances. That night we defiantly slept good that night.
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