Hello my Friends

I have returned. and i plan on displaying my photography here. expect some big changes! its gonna be sweet.

apparently i blog in spurts

because i will be actively blogging for like three months then be gone for a while, then come back and repeat the whole process. but, i am trying to make a better effort of consistently writing. 

but yes, lets see, what news have I?

i am excited for my future, as i have so many doors open for me at this time. i can go to China, or i Can go to Belfast for Graduate School, or i could go try my luck with the FBI. i do not know. what are your thoughts?

I Want the Nikon D90. (my birthday is April 23rd...)

so, i love my nikon D100, but it is crapping out... the autofocus is dead, the lens mount is faulty and sometimes becomes unaligned, and the programing is sometimes wrong. ok often wrong... it is a good camera still, and i love it, but i really want to get a new  one that can do auto focus sometimes, that the lens wont screw up on, and i want to actually be able to work with the programed software on my camera. thus i have come to the realization that i want the Nikon D90. it has 12.3 Mega Pixel DX- Format CMOS sensor, a 3 inch 920,000 dot color LCD display, EXPEED image processing concept for continuos picture taking, and 26 FPS HD movie quality video capabilities. yep that is what i want. anyone wanna give me money so i can buy it? i think you do!! :)

The House Parable.

so a few recent happening got me to thinking, and as such i came up with this story, which i call the house parable, read it and make your own judgement, and at the end, i will explain why i wrote it. 

There once was a family who escaped from persecution in their homeland, and made their way to a great and open land where they were told they could take land and build a house. they decided after a few years to actually do this, and so build the house they did. it took a long time to establish the house, and they came upon many obstacles while building; but they finally managed to construct the house. they lived in this house, and prospered; the numbers of their family grew to be many, and the family added onto the house, making it even bigger. one day though, vandals came and burned the house, destroying much of it. many in the family managed to escaped the fire, but they were split up and scattered throughout the surrounding country not knowing who was alive or dead. they lived split up in their now much smaller groups for a while with families in the cities surrounding their home, planning to return to the home once it was safe and the vandals gone. but the vandals stayed, and the house was not safe to return to, so they lived amongst the other families for a long period of time. so long in fact that the house was taken over by the police and given to some foreign landlords, who let it out to renters to live in, even though they had no legal claim to the house. this went on for many years, until one day the family decided that they could no longer live amongst their neighbors, as they had overstayed their welcome upon the charity of others. the family decided to return to their great house, and to rebuild it to its former glory, but upon arriving there found to their dismay many strangers living in it, and the police claiming the rights to it. having no place to go they were determined to regain the house that they had built so many years before, and went to the police asking for the rights back. the police were inclined to return the house to them, but only if the landlords would allow it. the family struck a deal with the landlords, paying them a great sum of money for their house and land back, and then moved in. suffice it to say that the people who were currently renting living quarters in the house were not pleased by the news that these virtual strangers were moving back in and taking away the only place that they had, and so they resisted, fighting with the family who owned the house. it was a horrible mess, with many injured and much of the property damaged, and in the end the family decided to let the renters stay, but partitioned them off to a separate wing of the house; the east wing to be exact. the tensions remained high for many years, with scuffles and skirmishes happening periodically, the renters feeling abused by the family, and the family feeling that they always had to be on alert for fear of the renters causing problems. this unstable situation carried on for many years, with the problems becoming more frequent, and the damage more dire. the renters, jealous of the house that they felt was their property threw rocks and started fires, and even killed a few of the family members. in response to this, the family put restrictions on the renters such as less rights to travel through the house, less access to heat water and electricity, and eventually the issues became  so bad that the family built a wall separating the renters off from the rest of the house. note that the family did not have to allow the renters to stay in the house, as legally the house belonged to the family, but they allowed the renters to stay because they felt that the renters did have some rights in the place. the renters decided that they could no longer tolerate what they felt were injustices to them, and so mounted a full scale attack against the family, breaking windows, setting fires to the rooms  and generally causing a huge problem for the family which then shifted to murder of various family members. the family fed up with this violence went to the police for help, but the police turned their back on them saying that while they were the owners of the house, the renters had a right to be there, and since they were there nothing could be done about it. and so, with nothing left to do, the family decided to take matters into their own hands, against the wishes of the town they lived in, the family started to tear down the section of house in which the renters lived and both the renters and the city rose up against the family, but the family knew that if they did not get rid of the renters, nothing would  change and more people would die. and so it started by the demolition of the living quarters of the renters, and when that did little more than provoke more murders, the family finally fought back, killing some of the renters and injuring many more in their attacks. and still this miniature war continues on even today.

who is right and who is wrong? the family is israel and the renters are the palestinians.... anyways, it is probably clear that i think that israel has a right to the land of israel, and that in war atrocities happen. you cannot have peace without justice, and justice cannot be reached without the enforcement of law and power. 

Homecoming on the morrow.

Ireland has been amazing. a-feckin-mazing to quote the irish. from Belfast to Drumahoe, Derry to Greencastle, I have been all over the north, seeing beautiful sights, learning humbling history, and hanging with lovely people. i cannot express to you the feelings i have for this country, it has truly been a blessing to have visited these shores three times now. and the friends that i have made here are awesome as well. i will miss it, but i know i will see them all again soon. :)

school starts tomorrow... wow. i am quite excited for this school semester, as i have been recharged by this jaunt to the emerald isle. so many things are up in the air concerning this new year. and yah, i do not know what to say really. well i truly love life. 

also i think i am going to be going to Queen's University in Belfast for graduate studies. 

yep... well i will see you lovely folks tomorrow. :)

Happy New Years! - from Belfast!

a little late i know, but happy new years!! ireland is awesome :)

i have begun realizing

many things... many many things...

how much things can change in one year, 

old friends drifted away from, new friends made,

 people lost and people found. china changed me. alot. 

and now it is almost the new year, and i am that much closer to being on my own and free in the world. and that scares me alot. what the heck am i going to do with my life? Go to china to teach? go straight to langley? i do not know for certain.

i am realizing not to trust dentists. they told me my wisdom teeth were beautiful, and that while i only had three, they were growing in straight and i would not have to worry about them at all. wrong. they DID grow in straight, but they are massively decaying and now i have to get them removed... boo...

 i have also realized that while i do not like contractions, i do not much mind poor capitalization. or punctuation. haha. 

i have realized that some of my closest friends are freshmen, i never figured that into my college equation. i have also realized that i hardly hang out with any of my old group of friends, and while the parting of ways is sad sometimes, i am not overly upset. i love them all, but sometimes people do just move on and make other friends. its weird though...

so ireland is coming up. i am a bit nervous about that actually... the girls are flying out the day before us, because we had a slight miscommunication and sean and i bought tickets for the day after them... so thats a little stressful. then there might be weather problems in new jersey, where we have a lay over before our flight to belfast. so please please pray about that. then while we are there, not exactly sure how we are getting around. or what we will be doing for sure... so yah, keep ireland in your prayers please.. ok well im going to go now. later!

Nolliag Shona Duit

so today is christmas. and i love it. its raining like mad outside right now, and its cold and windy and i love it. i received very thoughtful gifts this year, and i love that too. i love my family and friends and yah... life is good. 

just thought i would say that. 

ireland on sunday!! :)

So im sitting in the library

with Jared and Alisha and Tyler... and its not for school. we are just chilling... weird huh? i have not blogged in a while, and im ok with that, as i have been super busy... yearbook, tests, essays, and research papers have consumed my life. not to mention choir and work. and next week is thanksgiving, and then the next week is fantasia!! my oh my it is going by so fast! i have also come to the realisation that i hardly ever capitalize anything... and i sometimes spell words in british english... and yah. can i just say that i really love my friends. all of them.


and maria, if you are reading this, i am very excited for you to come home soon! i cannot wait to hear all of your stories!! you had better have many photos, or i shall be very cross with you.


um.. yah. ok so im gonna go now. jared and alisha just ditched me. and i want to talk to katie wegner. i have not talked to her in a while.

once again, it has been too long...

so apparently i have not blogged since the 23rd of october. way too long. so i have many things to talk about... obviously. but for now, a thought, i wish my class schedule for next semester was not sucking... :/ boo to that...