Take Me Back To Tanzania

I want to apologize for letting everyone down by not posting my journal of my experiences while in Africa. It proved to be a much larger task than I had anticipated. However, I have begun to post pictures of my adventure on my facebook profile. There is only about 50 Safari pics right now but as soon as I finish sifting through all 2,500 of them more will be posted. So keep checking back over the next week or so. Don't worry you dont have to be a member of facebook to look at them. Here is where you will find them:

http://wtamu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2138576&l=b0afe&id=23916452

I will assure you of this. I am still taking in everything I did and everyone I met while I was away and when I feel like I can sit down and type a cohesive final thought about the trip and what it ultimately means for me and my life, I will post it. I'm still alittle overwhelmed by it all. You might think I sound crazy but it was so unbelievably life changing. Enjoy the pics and check back soon!!

FINALLY!!!!!

I want to start by apologizing to everyone for taking so long to finally blog. Internet access is scarce here in Morogoro and now that I found it its dialup and it costs. Only 3 cents for 15 minutes though, pretty good. Unfortunatley my days are very busy and I only have about 5 more minutes(took 10 min. to load this page). I will come back an update later. Sorry no pics now since I am on a shared computer. Things are going great and I absolutely love it here. I have been taking a journal and will type it here later. Goodbye for now. Continue praying.

I'm Leaving!!

The day has finally come. In about 2 hours I will board a plane to take me on my journey to Africa. For everyone reading this, please keep me in your prayers over the next 2 weeks that everything will go as planned without any major hickups, and more importantly that God will open my eyes to better appreciate his wonderful grace and beautiful creation. I want to thank all of the people who helped encourage me as this day drew closer, especially everyone from work. I hope to blog at least every other day while I am away, so check back regularly for my journal and pics of my adventures. My next post will be from either London or Tanzania. Talk to you soon!

Dallas & Oklahoma Trip

Here are some pictures from my recent trip with my brother to Dallas & Oklahoma. I haven't had time to put them in Photoshop and mess with them so they are raw. The trip began with The Police concert but unfortunately you couldn't take cameras inside the arena. Just take my word for it, it was amazing. We then had two days to kill before we had to be back in Frisco for the soccer game so we decided to go and visit my Grandma and Grandpa on thier ranch in Oklahoma. Oklahoma was fun but I had never fully realized in all of my past visits over the years how incredibly backwoods it is. On our second day there my grandpa took both me and Andrew out on 4-wheelers about 8 miles into the woods and I was just taken back at how amazing God and his awesome power are to have created the whole of the earth from nothing. It was a nice reminder of God's unfailing grace. After 2 days of catching up and relaxing we left Oklahoma and made our way back to Frisco and Pizza Hut Park for the F.C. Dallas v. Houston Dynamo game. Andrew and I were completely stoked about the game seeing as it was our first professional soccer to attend. It was so cool and unlike any other professional sports game I have been to. We had amazing seatz; second row on the mid-field line. Neither team is my favorite MLS team but I guess I wanted Dallas to win. The only thing that stunk about the game is I didn't get to see a goal. The final score was 0-0, a tie. Ole well, thats soccer. Its was a blast. Enjoy the pics and talk to ya soon.

"The Police", here I come!!!!

Well this is it. The day has finally come. Tonight at 7:30 I will be watching the one of the greatest bands of all time play in front of my very eyes. Yes, you guessed it... THE POLICE. This experience will be as surreal as 'walking on the moon'. The 'voices inside my head' and everyone I know has been telling me how lucky I am. I know we are only 'spirits in a material world' but I felt like I needed this concert like you need 'every breath you take'. It will be filling such a 'hole in my life'. While waiting months for this concert I have felt like the 'king of pain' but God found my 'message in a bottle' and after tonight I will have 'synchronicity' in my footsteps. So I say this...'bring on the night', this night.

P.S. I couldn't think of a clever way to put Roxanne in a sentence in this context so I will just say it, ROXANNE is awesome.

I'm sitting here at Hastings. Its raining outside. I'm listening to one of the most beautiful songs to have ever been created; Piano Concerto #3 in C Minor, Opus 37 by Beethoven. Please get it and listen to it if you haven't ever done so.

Its been a while since my last post. So many things have happened. Big things. I purchased my first iPod. You're probably thinking "Welcome to the 21st century Daniel" and that buying and ipod is not a big deal. Well, I think it is. I have been succesful for almost three years in fending off the evil, world consuming beast that is Apple. But alas all good things must come to and end and so my trusty Dell mp3 player did. You will be missed. So far it has been a pretty eye-opening crossover. I never knew of all the stuff you could download from iTunes to your iPod. So far so good. I also got a new Canon Digital Rebel XT. I just got it yesterday so I haven't really had the chance to open it up and see what it can do, or rather what I can do with it. I can now relax knowing that I have a reliable, quality camera to take pictures on my trip to Africa in July. I hope this blog isn't boring you. I think I'm trying to hard tonite to write something clever. I'll just stop and try agian later. Sorry.

This is for you David.