In a few weeks the latest “Indiana Jones” movie will open at theaters. One of my memories of that series is the big, round boulders that keep careening out of some passageway at the hero, along with his nick-of-time escapes from being crushed. But how about boulders the size of the kitchen table, or your car, coming at you in real life?! Our cousin, John Graham, was in south central China the afternoon of the 7.9 earthquake, and he has an amazing story to tell: Continue reading “Danger & Heartache in China”
Renaissance Fair
Lydia has had a very busy week (as you will see), so she asked me to post this for her:
Dear Friends and Family,
Wow, sooo, I have two weeks to catch up on don’t I? We’ll I’ll try to hit the highlights. So two weeks ago, I was formally initiated into the Mirrors Sophomore Class Honorary, an honorary that I had applied for in February and had done an interview for as well. Every year a group of 40 students are selected by the current Mirrors members to be the next ‘generation’ I specifically wanted to get into this honorary because their main service project is volunteering for the St. James Cancer Hospital. I want to get involved in service to cancer patients since my grandmother on my mother’s side died of cancer.
Last Wednesday I received a letter of congratulations from the East Asian Studies Center at OSU. I had won Continue reading “Renaissance Fair”
News and Daffodils
Our daughter Lydia has been gone on several rugby trips recently, and hasn’t had time to post her latest missives. Here are two of them. First, however, some of my grandmother’s beautiful flowers, which are the part of her legacy to us which is renewed each spring:
(click on the thumbnail for the whole picture)
[never posted Lydia’s letters- out of date now]
Spring at OSU
Here’s some pictures from around campus. I am very glad I came to OSU, among other reasons, because of how beautiful it is in the spring. These first three pictures are 1) a picture of the sunrise from my window, I’m looking across the courtyard of my dorm complex and seeing the sun peak over part of the dorm building. 2) the sunset beside the main library, which is currently being renovated. 3) the oval (big green open space in the center of osu campus) around noon-time, full of students catching some sunshine and relaxing. The rest are self explanatory. Enjoy! Continue reading “Spring at OSU”
Nash Bash Rugby Tournament Pictures
Here’s pictures from my rugby tourney
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Here’s a great picture of me right after I received the ball from the flyhalf (who just took it out of a scrum). In rugby, if you get the ball, you RUN like there’s no tomorrow and avoid large moving objects throwing themselves in your path.
This is the scrum where Continue reading “Nash Bash Rugby Tournament Pictures”
A Weekend of Rugby
Dear family and friends,
My first week back after spring break was the usual transition between my “normal life” attitude and my “studyharddon’tsleepgeteverythingdoneArrggg!” attitude. As I watched my family drive away Sunday night I felt pretty hollow and lonely inside, but by Monday morning I was more or less over not seeing them again for another two and a half months. It’s been pretty hard getting back in the swing of things though, because Continue reading “A Weekend of Rugby”
Power corrupts- updated
In recent years I have become wary of a certain situation. Whenever I find myself admonishing someone to be careful of some sin or situation, a little voice mumbles something in my head. Has this ever happened to you? The voice is mumbling “… your turn next?” Sometimes this happens before my words to the other person are even out of my mouth. “There but for the grace of God, go I” said John Bradford, and I believe it wholeheartedly.
The Governor of New York apparently Continue reading “Power corrupts- updated”
Blizzard
Dear friends and family,
Despite my better judgment, I’m going to write an update this week because so many cool things have happened. Most important and wonderfully exciting is we had a blizzard here in Columbus!!! It started snowing Friday morning, kept going through to Friday night, and by Saturday morning it was blizzarding and it didn’t really stop until Saturday evening. I can’t say what the average snow fall is or anything, but around my dorm it ranges between a foot and a foot and a half deep. The wind was blowing pretty hard the whole time, so the snow got moved around quite a bit.
Snow is so much fun!! and this is the first time I’ve been in so much snow (excluding a big snow we had when I was about 5 which I don’t remember very well). Friday evening I spent an hour sliding down a steep pathway, very very fun, and later that evening after my usual IFI potluck, a few other international students and I Continue reading “Blizzard”
One Yard Halfback
No one wants to carry the ball 99 yards all the way to the one-yard line, and then give it to the halfback who gets all the credit, one state senator complained to a local journalist.
I don’t usually start a post with a quote from a rabidly liberal journalist who works for the largest, most despicable newspaper in the U.S. Paul Krugman, however (writing here in the New York Times) makes an excellent point. Is Barack Obama really an Eli Manning for Democratic progressives and liberals, or is he something else? I must give credit here Continue reading “One Yard Halfback”
The End of the World….. I mean Quarter Has Come
The End of the Quarter Has Come…….oh yeah…..dear family and friends too,
Mostly, the last week is here and then finals, which I won’t call a week because it is not. However, this is a first for me, since last quarter I only had one final and that was pretty easy, and this quarter I have four finals. Therefore, today you get an abbreviated version of my activities for the past week, and next week you probably won’t be hearing from me at all, as I doubt I’ll be able to unstick my face from my textbooks long enough to write an e-mail longer than “ask me after finals.” There is definitely nothing in the world quite like college ;)>
Tuesday- I took my second math midterm. If you want to know Continue reading “The End of the World….. I mean Quarter Has Come”