February 2012
6 posts
This, is what's up
Fort Collins Experience
Wow a week on the road has come and gone. After a whole month of staging in Denver one week flies by and we land in the lap of another family gracious enough to take us in. I believe that means it’s time to take a nice little reflection over the past week’s happenings. A little cogitating never hurts and personally it helps me see in retrospect what I may...
January 2012
17 posts
WatchRefreshed and So Clean, Clean
So this weekend was saweet. Our host family the Wilkie’s have a nice little cabin right on the Wyoming Colorado border and we booked it up there on Friday. We stayed there two nights and just chillaxed.
We got there on Friday night and started to settle in. We played a game called Phase 10 for awhile which was a lot of fun cuz I hadn’t played that...
WatchMy host parents Raelene and Andre at the Grizzly Rose tonight. We line danced and two stepped the night away.
Crunk With People →
This dude spencer in our group is a dj and remixed this song for our culture jam. I danced w a group as well still trying to get that video.
WatchOur host mom took us on a hike this saturday! More pictures to come
Kiwi! link →
My Kiwi Moment
So, we watched this cartoon in one of our workshops and they asked us to think about when the kiwi is comfortable, when he is challenged, and when he panics.
The point of the workshop was to get us to sort of center ourselves. They don’t want us to be comfortable in UWP with what we do cuz that’s not how you grow as a person, but it’s very destructive to...
Dude's tight →
This Wazzup
Mother do not worry (I doubt you were very worried), I’m having a vonderful time.
We have been spending the week learning part of our performance. Each day we have a a time set for singing, or cast vocals, a time for cast movement which is basically dance, and some workshops. The workshops are primarily about thinking about different cultures and why different cultures do what they do...
Texas Roadhouse?
Done. These Belgian and Japanese chicks boutta get their worlds rocked
Turtles? Tigghhtt →
Boom, up with people
Yo, I’m here. In fact, we all are.
Brief recap of last week or so
1. Went with family to Denver to see family. Hung out with g-rents, exchanged more prezzies and feasted on the finest. Saw my not-so-little-anymore nephs and exchanged more prezzies (we do that) and made some No-bake Cookies - look it up.
2. My immediate family (Mother Cyndie, Father Scott, and Sister Mitchell, and...
August 2011
3 posts
Glad we stayed in town
So Marc and I haven’t been able to do much traveling since we’ve been down here. We went to Hanmer for a relaxing day and to Dunedin for the All Blacks, but we had heard of this place called Queenstown that apparently is a very cool place with tons of stuff to do for tourists. We had planned on going during the middle of last week, but due to people saying that they would go and then backing out...
Ssoooooo things are starting to wind down.
We played the last match of the season this past Saturday, which was miserable. The day was actually beautiful but it was D2 (D1 had already finished), the match didn’t mean anything so no one was motivated to try that hard so I got super frustrated and started making stupid mistakes which frustrated me more, then I started getting hurt (not injured,...
Game. Over.
Sup dudes sorry for the bloggorial hiatus I’ve just been… well, lazy let’s be honest. Catching up on the last two weeks.
So we got a couple of snow days… In Sumner it didn’t snow an outrageous amount, only a couple of inches, but apparently in the city they got nearly a foot. Marc and I just drove out to the mall and saw a bunch of rugby pitches covered with what looked like a half a foot of...
July 2011
5 posts
arrgghhh
We lost 30-27. Absolute heartbreaker too cuz we were handling the match, the score after 20 was 27-7 us, and then over the course of the game we couldn’t convert penalties and they slotted every penalty and conversion attempt. We had a chance in injury time to tie it up but we missed a penalty kick from the 10 meter line a little to the side of the posts; tough kick but man that would have been...
So I started for Div 1. We ended up losing the match by five, which was a shame cuz we played awesomely in the first half and were up by eleven but then let it all get away from us. Dad I know what you mean about just trying not to be a weakness on the field cuz that’s exactly what I felt like. I was playing 6 and really feel like I got chewed up and spit out at the end, very physical, very...
promise a post for this weekend is coming just been super busy/tired, but its coming, its coming….
in other news scientists have just completed a breakthrough study which attempts to answer the question “Can bees think?” The answer they found is no, they cannot.
Bucketsss!
This weekend was one of highs and lows, lineout throws, movin up for average joes, confidence grows, gettin throwed, goofy fashion shows and cheering crowd “whoa’s”.
I played, once again, a lot of rugby this weekend. I started out playing 8 man for D2 and was told, since D1 and D2 play at different times, that I would only play 55 minutes in the first game along with another dude doing the same...
Conor's Nervous
So, tomorrow we play rugby. Once again D2 number 8 in ur programs number 1 in your heart. Let me preface my explanation of my nervousness with a little background information. D1 picks its starting said and then announces its reserves. The thing is, though, that they leave two reserve spots open to fill on the day, and whether you get chosen to fill those spots depends mostly on if your hot...
June 2011
6 posts
almost done with my second book
This feels like a high school summer vacation to be honest. I sleep in as late as I want, don’t do anything all day, it’s getting pretty boring. The great thing is that I came here to play rugby and that I am doing, so the boredom during the day is tolerable. I was talking about this with Wade the other day and you need to have some sort of purpose, this is what I was missing in...
This week has only been semi interesting so far. Tomorrow is Wed and we haven’t been able to work this week so that is slightly worrisome, even though any random thing could come along on any day so it’s not like the end of the world or anything.
The head coach of our team, who has been away on business I believe, is back in town and with the club and it’s super nice having him. The dude’s...
80 minutes D2
So the week went by and the weekend finally came, Saturday is a rugby day.
At the training on Thursday we were told which games we would be playing; Chase would be starting hooker for Div 2 I was going to be a reserve backrow. I was told that if we wanted to after the D2 game that D3 would need reserves, so I figured I would get 10-15 minutes at D2 and then head over for maybe a half at D3. It...
October 2010
1 post
“There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the...”
– Ronald Reagan (via dopefriend)
September 2010
13 posts
almost there... →
South is Different Than Central
I love Argentina, but at night and in the mornings i sure do miss Costa Rica. When i go to bed hearing ambulances and wake up in the morning to jackhammers, it makes me realize the little things about Costa Rica that, even though I noticed them at the time, I didn’t really understand how much they comforted me.
Por ejemplo, at night I look out my window here and see other high rise...
“How does it feel to be caricatured as a nation of Koran-burning radicals?...”
Hello again
So a lot of stuff has been happening and I haven’t really felt like writing very much recently, I’ll try to briefly recap some of the things that have been going on.
Last weekend I went to a Boca Juniors game (very famous soccer team down here) with some of my Argentine friends. It was intense. We sat in the 12th man section, yes they call it the 12 man here too, and it was...
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will...”
– Elbert Hubbard (via dopefriend)
I get emails from this dude and sometimes he sends...
The God Factor
I. Big Bang or Big God?
Today the known universe appears to contain about one hundred billion galaxies with approximately one hundred billion stars in each galaxy. It is believed that this “cosmos” extends across a diameter of 27.4 billion light years.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, also contains approximately one hundred billion stars and spans out approximately five...
Hawking has a new book out →
Fight to the Death
What amazes me is that the smartest minds on Earth can’t agree. Both sides claim to have irrefutable scientific evidence to prove their stance. What sucks is that one side has to win and the other side has to lose. If the spiritual side wins, they get everlasting happiness while everyone else gets everlasting misery (ignoring purgatory since it’s temporary). But if the other side...
small matter but the price is free at the public hospital, it was expensive at the private - i misspoke
sigghh
soo my rugby hopes are lookin bleak…
3 weeks ago I started practicing with one of the best clubs here for their U22 team. At the beginning it was a little rough cuz it took forever to get to practice and while the dudes were nice enough, they didn’t exactly go out of their way to welcome me and this one other American who wanted to play. They also told me that I would need a bunch...
I forgot that I like Uncle Kracker, just heard a song by them and it brought back 12 bus rides to colorado with my youth group