I flew into Burbank Thursday afternoon, caught with Allan at YWAM LA, got my wonder VW Jetta back, and had a good time visiting with the new crop of students there. After a great meeting with Blake about the artwork for the card game and video game I headed back up YWAM LA. Get this, I accidentally fasted the entire day until dinner with YWAM LA which was pretty cool because the YWAM students themselves were fasting on purpose. Things are really moving forward with Village, too. Today I had lunch with a Fuller student named Shanek Fernando, who just happens to want to make a reality tv show about international development as well. Village the Show, of course, you knew it was coming. =) My body is still on two timezones I think, I'm not sure which ones though. I'm dead tired in the afternoon around 2; take a quick 3 hour nap; and I'm still falling asleep at midnight. Hmm... go figure. I'm at the 1570 again up in Pasadena. If you're in the area give me a call.

I tried signing up for their service. The first 3 days my web login was broken, and then they had the audacity to not honor their return policy on day 4. (they have a 3 day grace period when you sign up which means their used to customers cancelling as soon as they find out it's useless). I would link to their site, but I don't want to accidentally improve their rank in Google searches.

Kenya Sep 27, 2006 - 24 photos - 8 MB Photos from my Kenya trip Sept 14th - Sept 26th 2006

Here's my view from a mini-taxi. There are no road laws in Hyderabad. Crossing a street in Hyderabad is like playing Frogger except more air pollution. I found a restaurant yesterday with food that doesn't burn holes through my intestine. Chicken Kandahar is my friend. =) Have you heard the stereotype that Indians are great at hospitality but bad tippers? It's true. The people I'm visiting with go out of their way to make me welcome, walking around with me, or fetching me coffee, or showing me to restaurants. Then after dinner at the restaurant when I pay the bill they usually take half the tip I leave and put it back in my wallet. =) 

Thanks to the Indian Embassy, I missed my flight the other day because I had to retrieve my passport in person from the embassy, nevermind that I sent it in weeks in advance and even paid extra for mailing fees. I haven't done that much and I'm already getting tired of international travel, especially embassies. So wish me luck as I attempt to reschedule my flight today. Things are progressing on Village, and I'm doing a lot of thinking about what next. Business school? Acting school? I definitely want to get back into the university environment. Making things happen with Village and meeting the right people would be a lot easier if I was at Stanford right now. =)

One of my YWAM buddies from YWAM Virginia, Kay just found out she has some cysts on her thyroid and a couple of them are probably cancerous. Pray for her complete recovery. She's been in Brazil helping start up a School of Jewish Studies there and is planned to go to Kiev, Ukraine to help with their SJS as well.

Village Map ... Village Board Game ... Village Demo. I haven't written in a month.... wow! I've been posting mostly on the blog at http://www.villagethegame.com. August has been pretty tame. Lots of emails, lots of phone calls, and just Hezbollah to keep me entertained. Last night I played the most annoying game of chess ever with my friend Josh. Three times I "knew" I had em and of course, it ends stalemate. Punk. I was planning on a trip to California for a quick visit but I don't think that's going to happen. I'm burning through my money too fast and I'll probably be headed back there before winter anyways. Now it's looking like a week in South Carolina at the Zadok House of Prayer. Hopefully I can get recentered before I head off to Kenya on August 29th. Did I mention I was going to Africa? Yep Africa. Everyone's doing it. Why not. After Kenya for a month, Hyderabad, India for a month. Between those two continents I hope to g...