Finally, to EBS... Hey there friends! I have now been here six days after flying out from the U.S. Right now we are in a kind of transition phase here at the European Bible School (EBS) between the health quarter here and the Leadership quarter, which we came for. This week they have been taking a few tests and just finishing up. This next week beginning early on Sunday morning until the following Monday, we will be going to Malmo, Sweden to a conference called Ambassadors 4 Christ and we will be there eight days helping out with some Bible work I believe, but we'll see what happens. When I typed the last blog entry I was in the Chicago airport waiting for 2 1/2 hours for my flight to Copenhagen, Denmark. I was having my devotions a few minutes before boarding time and I look over and I see Emily and Alex, two of the WFLs, I was pretty surprised to see them there, I was supposed to meet them at Denmark. The flight was only about 1/2 to 2/3 full, so I was able to go and sit with them. They gave us a small dinner, and I read a bit and caught up with what Emily and Alex had been up to since I had seen them last. I got five or so hours of sleep, and that felt pretty good, I slept when it would be night in Norway to try to get on the sleep pattern, it worked pretty well. I woke up hungry and just in time, because they brought the breakfasts by. I gobbled mine down, ate some of the food Emily and Alex didn't want and then asked for another breakfast from the stewardess, they gave me one. We finally got there and then got onto our next flight without any problems. Matt didn't make it to the flight with us, he told us later he just missed being able to get on, and watched the plane sit there for five minutes without letting him on. We had a short flight to Oslo, Norway. We went to get our luggage, mine came through, but only one of Alex's came through. It all got figured out and it came on the next flight along with Matt. We went through customs and there were the rest of the WFLs. We met the guy that was going to take us to EBS, and changed our money, and drove an hour and a half to the school. It was a pretty drive there, Oslo is a big city, and it took a while to get through it. We had to drive under a few fjords in long tunnels. The people here drive on the right hand side of the road like we do in the States. It almost seemed as if the only difference between the States and Norway was the language, signs, and the cars. Anyway, we had dinner and the girls went to their dorm right near the main school building that had the classrooms, the computer lab, and the cafeteria. The us three guys were driven down to our dorm and we had to do rock, paper, scissors to see who would get the single room. Ricky got it. So we unpacked our stuff, the rooms are like old hospital rooms, we have hospital beds and there is nurse call buttons in the room too. The mattresses are hard as rock, but it worked out fine, I've slept like a baby on it just fine until now. The next day we had orientation and they told us what to expect from the program and we were shown around the campus. From then until Friday, we went to some of the classes, but the regular EBS students were finishing up the last quarter and were having some tests and stuff. We had agriculture classes and Bible classes, not to mention the practical education, aka work. I worked in the greenhouses moving dirt around, which reminded me a little too much of last summer's landscaping...I also worked on a ton of tomato plants putting sticks into the little pots and securing the plant to it so they would grow up straight and not lean over. The food here is pretty good, vegan of course, its different than most food I've had so far, but I'm surviving quite well. Friday night we had vespers and it was pretty interesting, they had translators who would translate both ways, Norwegian to English and visa versa. Well, I'm having a lot of fun so far! I will be going to Sweden tomorrow morning and I will be at the Ambassadors 4 Christ conference in Malmo, so I will not have internet access there, so I will have to post again when I get back! Pray that all goes well with this conference, we are supposed to be doing Bible work, but I'm not at all sure what that entails.

Spring Break... Well, here I am in the airport. I realize I haven't posted for quite a while. I will be trying to keep up this blog more regularly while being in Europe. This spring break, starting March 4th, has been a good one. David, Matt, and Chris, some of the guys from Witness For Life, came over to my house since Sonora is not too far from Weimar. They had scheduled flights before Weimar changed the Spring Break dates, so they had to go somewhere for three days, so, to my house they came. We played many games of Risk into the wee hours, we went to Yosemite and checked out the Sequoias and other great views there, and then we checked out a big gold mine near my place.Before we knew it, it was time for me to take them to the airport. Off they went, and I went to work for Hub 3 Networks in Sonora. It is primarily a internet provider, but many other computer related things happen there too. I came just in time to start helping Bryan, the head ted, to get office next door in good shape to move over from the other office. I'm really glad I was able to work there, though it was very short, I learned much about a whole lot of different things there. The next weekend I went over to Rio Lindo Academy, the boarding academy I graduated from. My sister, Alison, is currently going there as is my good friend Kirk and a bunch of other Sonoraites. It was great seeing people I hadn't seen for a long time and seeing some of my old teachers. My sister left with our Sonora SDA church for Belize where they will be preaching, building, and putting on a VBS program for the people there. Pray for that trip, that it is a success and many people will be touched as a result! After that I again worked at Hub 3. Right now I am typing on my new Apple MacBook. I'm pretty stoked about that! It is working famously. All too soon my Spring break ended. I believe it was successful though, I was able to see my family and friends, who I won't see for three months and I was able to earn a few bucks so that I will be able to have fun in Europe and pay for this Laptop! Well, I said goodbye to my parents and grandparents today and I flew from Sacramento to Chicago today. I will be flying in a little over an hour to Copenhagen, Denmark. There I will meet three other WFLs, Matt, Emily, and Alex. Then we will fly to Oslo, Norway where we will meet up with the rest of our group and then travel to the European Bible School. Adios for now....