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606 days ago
It's been some time since I stopped halfway through my travel log of the trip here, so I decided it was time to get the rest of it all told out. I believe we left off at the point where I boarded the Qantas flight for Sydney. It was about 10pm at this point and considering the fact that I had been "in transit" for almost 18 hours, I think I was doing quite well. The drugs had helped quite a bit in making the massive headache I mentioned in part 1 go down quite a bit, and I was able to relax a little bit more now that second of three transportation issues seemed to be successfully resolved. A perhaps insignificant thing to be grateful for, but for which I am nonetheless grateful, was that on both flights I managed to quickly and easily find a place in the overhead compartments to place my carry-on and my laptop bag. I remember when I was flying home from my mission I had a huge carry-on, which to this day I still don't know how I got it on to the plane without ...
640 days ago
641 days ago
I find myself torn between two extremes: 1. Including significant amounts of detail so that the individual events are well described, and my own feeling and thoughts are adequately conveyed, and 2. Saving myself time by eliminating excessive detail because it takes me so long to think of exactly how I want to convey my experiences. Of course I don’t want to leave out details, so the ideal solution would be for me to get faster at punching out my ideas. Because that ideal situation seems unlikely, I think I’m going to have to be more selective about which events and thoughts I decide to include. The whole purpose of this post is to get some feedback about what I should do. I’m just not sure what would be my best move here. So, in this post I expect some feedback. For those of you who might not have made the connection yet, I will be basing my future posts on the content of the feedback and comments left.
649 days ago
Sunday was great, though packed. I sat down in the back pew, just a few minutes before sacrament meeting was to be starting, and was asked to bless the sacrament. I thought that was interesting not only because it’s not exactly a small ward, so there are plenty of other priesthood around to do it, but also because they still don’t even know for sure that I’m a member. I haven’t met with the Bishop, and I’m sure that my records weren’t transferred yet, so I could just be a guy off the street (who knows a fair bit about the church and doesn’t mind sitting in church for several hours). I finally decided that the reason he asked was because he wanted to hear my Canadian accent bless the bread. This week there was a couple of babies being blessed (not that the babies were a couple, this isn’t a pre-arranged marriage sort of country, just that there were two of them) so there were significantly more people at church than the week before. So many so that we had ...
656 days ago
