Prayer Letter

This is the last prayer letter before I leave for Taiwan. I will keep my blog updated on the upcoming adventures as much as I can. (click on the image to enlarge it.)

Italo Romano: Amputee Skateboarder

This guy doesn't have any legs and probably can skate better then most people that I know. In the beginning of the video he skates a lot of ramps, but don't stop watching it there. By the end of the video he is tarring up the streets, jumping down large stair sets and grinding rails. It truly is amazing.

Blog Promoters

I am not really sure why but I notice some traffic to my blog from websites that I have never really heard of, so I clicked on the link to check it out.

Apparently on movie-ozone.com, which is a movie review site, I am a "Fellow Blogger" I do not know how I acquired this status or even if I can recall ever doing a movie review on my blog (possibly once or twice). And if I did do any movie reviews it was probably only on christian movie/skate video.

Then on pingywebedition.somee.com, which is a website to promote your web on google I think (not really sure), it is "suggested" that you might want to visit my blog as you wait. I couldn't figure out what you would exactly be waiting for to happen. 

I do not know what connection I have with whoever puts these sites together and I am pretty sure I know everyone who is an official follower of my blog. However I can't argue, if they would like to promote my blog for whatever reason it interest them, I won't argue. I am thankful for the extra viewers sent over to check out what I'm about.

Rosetta Stone

I just received Rosetta Stone to help me further learn Chinese (Mandarin). I actually didn't even know I was getting it until Word of Life provided it for me this past weekend. I think it is a great tool if you put the time into using it and also practicing what you learn from it to people who speak the language to correct your mistakes.

The main idea in how RosettaStone works is that when we are learning a language as a child we associate words with the things we see. As you learn words with Rosetta Stones they are accompanied with an image. There is also an microphone you speak into that it tries to tell you if you are saying a word correctly or not (not 100% accurate).

If you have the time and really want to learn a language, I would suggest this program. However I have heard that the best way to learn a language is to live among people who speak it, with limited use of English.

Weekend at Kyle's

I went to New York a few days early to spend some time with Kyle Paradis (at his house). He is also part of the same missionary internship program as I am. He will be going to South Africa with John Cottier.

We couldn't find anywhere close/cheap enough by to rent snowshoes from, so we made our own for our adventures.

We had to cross a river to go where ever our imagination was taking us.

Kyle's dog, Emma, joined us. She brought her ball too. She enjoyed dropping her ball down into the river several times.

Problem was we had to jump down to cross the river the first time. On the way back it was too far and tall to jump up elevation. We used this slippery tree to climb up then drop down on the other side.