so here i am

so i am currently in an internet cafe with no way to update my blog because my friend philip has the flash drive with all my stuff on it. but i hopefully will be able to real soon - and so everyone knows i am doing fine and all is going well here. :)

Day One of Travel...

What luck! Access to the internet the first night - unfortunately there is some not so great luck as well to go along with it.

We departed this morning about an hour later than we were supposed to because our flight was delayed. The flight was from Oslo to Newark, and it was a brutal 9 hours and 25 minutes. This was enough to cause me to lose my patience and all feeling in every part of my body due to the long sitting, and I have ended up feeling rather dehydrated because the flight attendants were none to pleased about bringing us drinks, and when I called for one the response I got was not exactly pleasant, so I just decided to leave them be and not drink water for the remaining 3 hours. We would have gotten in within 9 hours, but unfortunately since we had been delayed there were other planes who were trying to land at the same time, so we spent some time chilling in the airplane going back and forth and up and down, until there was a time when we could land. We had no hope of catching the next plane, but over the intercom system on the plane they assured us that we would be looked after when we got there and would be sent on to the next available flight with no problem. We were not exactly worried about it, because it sounded very easy to do, and so off we went to clarify these things to get on the next flight.

Unfortunately, the flight people didn't see it as reasonable that it was their fault that the flight was delayed and so they wouldn't send us on the next available flight. We tried with American Airlines who were our connecting airline, but they as well would do nothing about it. Continental, although they wouldn't give us another flight despite the fact it was their fault, did very kindly give us free hotel rooms for the night, along with 3 meal vouchers each. And that is precisely where we are now...In the Howard Johnson hotel in Newark, New Jersey. Rob and Eli have gone back to the airport to try and work out the problem, because there is now the possibility that we will be able to go to JFK in the morning real early and all of us can catch a flight and will then make it to our connecting flight in Miami. If that does not work out the other option is for us to go to the Newark airport again in the morning at 4:30am and hope that 14 people don't show up for that flight. We will see which option works; so some of us may be around the states for a couple days and some others may be on their way to Honduras.

Oh how I love travelling and all the wondrous events that always end up happening to thwart our endeavours...And that was not sarcastic by the way, I actually don't mind things like this happening, just as long as it doesn't unnecessarily cost us extra, that we don't have.

Also a sad tale, is about how Jen appears to have forgotten her camera at the school, so there may be no Africa pictures from her...I'm sure she will be very upset when she realizes it.

Well I have not slept in I think about 48 hours now, so I must go sleep in my nice big hotel bed...:) Especially since it will be a very early morning for us...

P.S. We flew over Halifax today and I kind of wanted to jump out of the airplane, but then I realized it wouldn't be the best of ideas so I didn't. :P Made me miss Halifax a whole lot though. But I must say it's kind of nice to be back in North America; there's something homey and comforting about it, even if it is the US rather than Canada!

Another Adventure Begins

Ahh the joys of travel; the wonders of aeroplanes; and the excitement in the unknown...

At around 6:45am tomorrow, I, along with a group of others will be embarking away from the cold landscape of Norway and will be spending the next 6 (or so) weeks in Honduras, where it is summertime and the livin' is easy...well probably not that easy, but that is half the fun of it.

I greatly look forward to the warm air which will bring back to my mind fond memories of Belize and Dominican Rebuplic where I have had the opportunity to go on other mission trips in the past. I look forward to entering into experiencing how others live - in what I am expecting to be alot more laid-back than things tend to be in 1st world countries...I look forward to being useful to others and having the opportunity to help those who are in need, and to begin to understand more of what I need to be doing and how I need to be living.

Life is always such a quandry - filled with many hopes, dreams, and desires, but so often they end up being taken from our arms and we see them smash to little pieces before our very eyes, and although this is quite painful to see, when all is said and done, they were most likely smashed for a reason. Perhaps because they were not the dreams we should have had, or maybe because we were putting them up on a higher plateau than what should be on that high plateau. Whatever the reason may be it was for a purpose and although it is a hard lesson to learn, it is a necessary one.

Now that, my friends, was rather off topic and I apologize, but alas the hour is late and my mind tends to wander.

Moving right along.

I will most likely have very little, if any, connection to the internet in my absence, and so as a result I will be cut off from those back home on a communication level until probably a later date. The chance does exist though, and I may be able to be connected every 2 weeks or something to that effect, and if that is the case, this blog will be the first place I will come to post a little on the activities of my time there, and so I encourage you to check this from time to time if you are at all interested in the happenings in Honduras.

I trust that all will go well, but still ask for your prayers.

And now my mind has reached the point when it shuts down, so with this being said I wish you all a good-night, and a good 6 weeks!