Hahaha, i was going for a more wearing a dress or skirt instead of pants things, but yeah...

Not a pilgrimage, really. We did some touring and saw lots of places, but it was actually a ministry trip. We helped out with a few ministries based in Israel, hung out with a youth group, played at this little cafè, that kinda stuff. It was tons of fun.

hey that's awesome. now i'm jealous! was it a sort of pilgrimage?

I'm doing pretty good. I just got back from Israel yesterday, so I'm adjusting to having not much to do at home. That will all change when I go back to school Tuesday, though. I spent almost two weeks in Israel. It was amazing. I didn't want to come home.
I'm not done with school, though. I was going to finish early May, but it looks like it might be late May now, we'll see. Now I have to get used to going back to class after three weeks off. :-(

ah i see. i'm good. and yourself? have you finished school now?

I added them as foes myself. They haven't signed in in months and never filled out profile stuff. Slackers.
Hi. How's things?

wow you have foes. how does that make you feel?

Haven't decided yet...

who are you going to dedicate it to?

I'm scared of the nails in your avatar.
New contest. I see you already subbed. I'll try to get on the ball with this one.

yeah it's a good view. plus the dude let me take the reins for a while.

Parachuting in the Swiss Alps might be something I would be down with using a credit card for. You may have just talked me into it :-)

yeah man, but you can save money AND take a credit card. just for those extra things you come across. like parachuting in the swiss alps. you get there and then you're like. fuck yeah, i might try that

Haha. Sadly, I'm too conscientious by nature to let myself do that. But, I'd definitely be able to work for a few months to save up the money I needed and run on cash. That I'd be able to do. I'm good at blowing a lot of cash, just bad at racking up debt :-)
We'll see if get around to it. I know I'll wanna go back to Israel after this first trip. I want to travel a lot, but I also want to be a missionary, so I'm sure a lot of the work I do with my church will end up taking me to cool places I wanna see.

that's exactly what you should do. you'll have the time of your life. takes a bit of money tho if you want to do it properly.

if you want my advice...take a credit card and max the bitch out. who cares how much debt you come back with? if you're only going to do one trip you better make it worth while.

You might be right about the voodoo line. I dunno. I haven't seen that movie in years.
I don't really know what exactly I'll do, to be honest. I'll be starting a new job, and be broke, so I'm committed to living in Medford (where I am now) for six months at my parents'...after that...no idea. I mean, I have some ideas. I could finish school in LA, live with my uncle in NY for really cheap, move up to Portland. The nice thing about the job is that it'll be at Starbucks hopefully, which is transferable anywhere in the country.
Anyway, I'll stay here for a while. I can't just bail on the students I've been working with 'cause I'm bored. I love the guys that I've been getting know to, so I'll stay here and keep doing what I'm doing until I have enough money and feel like it's time to move on. Then I'll figure out where I'm moving on to.
I am insanely jealous of your European tour. I want to do that so badly! I want a flight into eastern Europe, a Eurorail pass, and a flight out of western Europe two or three months later. Then I just want to go wherever I feel like :-) Maybe I'll do that.

doesn't it go like this:

the power of voodoo
who do?
you do!
do what?
remind me of the babe

Nah i travelled for ages after i finished highschool. I lived in Switzerland for a year, came back for a year and worked to save money so i could go back, and then i travelled around Europe for 3 and a half months. I've done my fair share of travelling.

I decided when i got back that i should probably do something productive and maybe go to uni like everyone else. now i'm just counting down the years til i can travel again.

and what do you think god will have in mind for you?

The power of who-do.
Who-do?
You do.
I do what?
Remind me of the babe.

Hope I didn't steal sledg's thunder. I couldn't help myself.
I'm not totally free to do whatever I want, in the sense that I am basing my decision on what I feel God is asking me to do. Nonetheless, I definitely still have lots of option open to me :-D
You should take a term off of school to save up some money and travel for a month or two. It would be totally worth it.

yeah next one for sure.

man i'm jealous. i wish i had nothing tying me down and i could do whatever i wanted. i so badly want to travel again. sooooo much