Brief Updates

Life in the last week has been extremely busy.... I will give some pictures and other updates in a couple of days hopefully.

• Last week on Tuesday night we celebrated my birthday (early) and midterms being over with Pizza for dinner and Ice cream sundaes for an evening snack (Thanks to my parents). We also played Volleyball and basketball under the lights. Typically we don't turn the lights on the court during the week. My friend, Hanalore, also made me a birthday cake..... what a nice surprise.
• On Wednesday I had lunch with the Gorgeses and Dinner on Anderson Air Force Base at the Schaubs.... (Not the Scubas, Mac)
• Also on Wednesday I had 2 very exciting things.... I felt my first earth quake. Normally I don't notice.... but we were all in a staff meetings and some else said.... Hey it's an earthquake.... and then I said oh yeah I DO feel the building shaking. I found out that was 7.2 on the Rictor scale but approximately 300 miles away so there was no damage here on Guam and if you sneezed you might have missed it - as many did.
• My big excitement Wednesday night was while I was at Anderson Airforce Base I witnessed a B-52 Stealth Bomber taking off. Apparently they only land and take off from about 4 bases - Andersen being one of them. Pretty cool looking plane but of course at 2 billion a pop - it should be cool.
• Last week I started to teach Brad's class while he will be away for 2.5 weeks. 1 week is finished. Brad left me a lesson plan and several classes are mostly watching videos. So far things have gone fine. This week I will also proctor an exam for Harald Gorges while he is in Palau. I am hoping he gets to make a guest appearance on the show survivor which is filming it's next season there.
• The School Vans are both having issues. They must have sympathy pains because the one got a flat tire and then the other blew a radiator hose in the same day. I am thankful that it did not happen Saturday when both Ned and I did a lot of driving transporting students to their Car Wash, Basketball, and ministry.