Went to the East Coast to continue on the Meet 'n Greet.

Boston and New York City. Not much sight-seeing in Boston aside from the meeting of my team's many aunties and uncles and even more cousins... and lots of food. Lots of food. We may have wiped out a few species of marine life. And I thought my people, the Japanese were crazy. Shoveled snow and got called a "crazy sunshine kid" because I wasn't wearing enough layers when going out. My team shared in that dubious honor.

Two and a half days in NYC, a nice vacation from our vacation. Took the Chinatown bus that ships you from Boston's Chinatown to NYC's Chinatown for $15 one way. What a deal! Ate more great food and did most of the things you're supposed to do in NYC, sans the Statue of Liberty. Empire State Building, the tree and ice skating at Rockefeller Center, Times Square, Ground Zero, Broadway show (Drew Lachey, Nick's brother from 98 degrees is a small man... not taller than 5'6"). Amazing thing: She wasn't sick of me at the end of the week! Almost as amazing thing: It got up to 60 degrees in NYC!

A week before I left for home I started meeting with a Japanese international student (Tamami) trying to get into UCLA so that she could practice speaking English and I could practice speaking Japanese.

Something I learned from the first-time meeting: There are age limits for female stewardesses on Asian airline companies.

Tamami used to be an airline stewardess for JAL. I asked her if she thought about going back to Japan and being a stewardess again. "I'm too old. I can't be a stewardess anymore." She didn't look all that old. Actually, she looked younger than me. Later in the conversation I find out that she's 25. She's 25 and she's too old. Apparently, you have to be under 25 to work as a stewardess for JAL, ANA, Asiana, and other Asian airline companies. It's ridiculous for me to hear that 25 is considered over the hill for anything.

The webpage reloaded... well... resurrected.

The webpage has new life. I still need to clean it out, update some things, and add more stuff, but I've finally updated my webpage again.

Basically, I was looking for a place to put volume 2 of my newsletters: The Fuller Years. Yes, I've decided to write a newsletter chronicling my time in seminary. Details are pending, but I think I'll put it out every two months. In light of my time being back here at home, and the fact that the questions I'm getting right now are all very similar, I think something like this would help out lots. My experience over the last 3 years has been that the newsletters were great conversation starters. I will not be mailing it out as I don't have a mailing budget for these things anymore, but, anybody who's interested can go download it from my webpage or can get it via email if requested (just email me of your interest). Enjoy!

Haven't been updating the site or the BCS simply because the end of the quarter is near. Haven't been reading anybody's blog. With the exception of a few people, I have no idea how or what everybody's doing. It's a bit sad to know that I keep up with people through their blogs. It's even sadder to know that I'm not the only one.

Greek final is on Wednesday the 8th. Last small group is on Wednesday night. Foundations final paper is due on Friday the 10th. I suppose the earliest I could come home is 1AM Thursday the 9th. We shall see...