i've never had no outlet like this.
soon, i will be inflicted with word vomit.
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j.wiebe
23 January 2008
19 January 2008
by the numbers
here is the uk by the numbers...
1. 10 hour plane ride on virgin....loved it
2. 14 hour sleep day....went to bed last night 5:30pm, woke up today at 7:30am
3. too many to count people i have met
4. 2 really good friends in george and pete, my hope teammates
5. 1 pub called the olde queens head where i can grab a nice cold guinness...its become the local watering hole. even though we were only there for 30 minutes. one time.
6. 1 trip to manchester for a house-warming party, where i will meet tons more people
....i am feeling solid about my time so far. a pictoral journey of halesowen, my home right now, and a weekend in manchester will be up soon. i love each one of you.
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j.wiebe
1. 10 hour plane ride on virgin....loved it
2. 14 hour sleep day....went to bed last night 5:30pm, woke up today at 7:30am
3. too many to count people i have met
4. 2 really good friends in george and pete, my hope teammates
5. 1 pub called the olde queens head where i can grab a nice cold guinness...its become the local watering hole. even though we were only there for 30 minutes. one time.
6. 1 trip to manchester for a house-warming party, where i will meet tons more people
....i am feeling solid about my time so far. a pictoral journey of halesowen, my home right now, and a weekend in manchester will be up soon. i love each one of you.
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j.wiebe
16 January 2008
and so it is.....
i am sitting in the lax international airport lounge about ready to board flight vs024 on virgin atlantic to london. after an unbelievable trek from pasadena to lax, we made it, i'm here, i'm ready to go. i have been extremely nervous and jittery. its my first time in a foreign place so i cut myself some slack. i got me a passion tea lemonade from starbucks to calm me down and i took an airborne. now, its only about entertaining myself for 10 hours......i do have sonic the hedgehog, the office season 3, gangland and this american life at my disposal as well as a myriad of movies. i love you all. the next time will be from across the atlantic.
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j.wiebe
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j.wiebe
15 January 2008
gone baby gone
i leave approximately 30 hours from now for london. much is still to be done while in the states. i am on the verge of something monumental.
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j.wiebe
14 January 2008
at this point i don't know what to think
things happen expeditiously.
after some prodding and poking, a vengeful telephone call with an outsourced visa worker and more contact with government employees than i have ever had in my life, my visa is coming tomorrow. i actually found it was my fault i had been waiting so long. a part of the visa application process to the uk is submitting your biometric data, which essentially means getting your photo taken and giving fingerprints. i went to the us citizenship and immigration services support center in fresno, the nearest to my residence. this was where my completed application email directed me, as well as (so i thought) my application, to go. so i submitted those 3 weeks ago and sent off my application to the same place the next day. you would think i would have more common sense in where i send something so sensitive, seeing that it has my passport and social security card with it. i was supposed to send it to the british consulate in LA but seeing that the only address listed on my form was the fresno support center i sent it there. it proceeded to sit in their offices for 2 weeks over the holidays and was finally forwarded to the consulate last wednesday. i received approval for my visa friday.
i feel somewhat sheepish and embarassed at this, especially since i missed out on yfc's staff conference this past week, where i would have been able to make friends and establish connections for the coming year. regardless, i will be on a plane headed to birmingham in the uk on the 15th of january at 4pm. its quite exciting.
in other news, i spent several days with really, really close friends. a couple days with the bergens in shafter. a day and a half with tim, nikki, rob and homeless mike in pasadena. i just got done hanging out with bryan and jesus. we hung out at the railroad tracks, came back and watched the office and had some french press. its these little things that are exciting to me now.
i'm really not sure what to think about all of this business. i feel like i am floating (not literally.....well, maybe literally) and that i will land wherever i am supposed to.
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j.wiebe
after some prodding and poking, a vengeful telephone call with an outsourced visa worker and more contact with government employees than i have ever had in my life, my visa is coming tomorrow. i actually found it was my fault i had been waiting so long. a part of the visa application process to the uk is submitting your biometric data, which essentially means getting your photo taken and giving fingerprints. i went to the us citizenship and immigration services support center in fresno, the nearest to my residence. this was where my completed application email directed me, as well as (so i thought) my application, to go. so i submitted those 3 weeks ago and sent off my application to the same place the next day. you would think i would have more common sense in where i send something so sensitive, seeing that it has my passport and social security card with it. i was supposed to send it to the british consulate in LA but seeing that the only address listed on my form was the fresno support center i sent it there. it proceeded to sit in their offices for 2 weeks over the holidays and was finally forwarded to the consulate last wednesday. i received approval for my visa friday.
i feel somewhat sheepish and embarassed at this, especially since i missed out on yfc's staff conference this past week, where i would have been able to make friends and establish connections for the coming year. regardless, i will be on a plane headed to birmingham in the uk on the 15th of january at 4pm. its quite exciting.
in other news, i spent several days with really, really close friends. a couple days with the bergens in shafter. a day and a half with tim, nikki, rob and homeless mike in pasadena. i just got done hanging out with bryan and jesus. we hung out at the railroad tracks, came back and watched the office and had some french press. its these little things that are exciting to me now.
i'm really not sure what to think about all of this business. i feel like i am floating (not literally.....well, maybe literally) and that i will land wherever i am supposed to.
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j.wiebe
10 January 2008
the man from jacksonville
ryan adams is playing at starbucks. i think i am in love.
yes, yes i am.
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j.wiebe
yes, yes i am.
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j.wiebe
rolling through a--->b life
one of my favorite bands over the past 8-10 months is mewithoutYou. it took me a while to get into them but once it clicked, the game was over. in their lyrics, i find the prophetic and the mundane, mashed together like a song i couldn't sing. i have listened nearly exclusively to their latest release Brother, Sister and the album just before Catch for Us the Foxes. I have decided with my time spent in Starbucks today, I will listen to the entirety of their debut album A-->B Life. So far, I enjoy hearing the place from where the band came.
More on a thought in musical progression in a bit......
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j.wiebe
More on a thought in musical progression in a bit......
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j.wiebe
my media guide
just woke up. its 10:48am. this is actually rather early for me. currently, i am stuck in the 4-5am through noon-1pm sleeping schedule. the world sometimes looks better at 3:30am. at least my neighborhood does.
current situation: my visa has not come in yet. bummer. i mailed it off about 3 weeks, the government says its supposed to take 2 weeks and here i find myself, still in reedley. there was a restlessness for a time, mainly around last weekend which is when i was supposed to be going, that has been replaced with an assurance that i will get there when i need to get there. all of this free time affirms my notion that i could never be a housewife. too distracted too easily. and i spend too much time in thought and not on action.
with my free time, my media intake has heightened considerably. i have been working my way through season 5 of seinfeld as well as select episodes of the office season 3. (thanks to tim.) i watched superbad last night with a few friends. needles to say, it was quite vulgar, over-the-top dialogue-wise, and imbalanced in character development. there are few times when i become uncomfortable with language. this was definitely one of those times. enough of that. i have also downloaded seasons of gangland and this american life from the itunes store in anticipation of a long plane ride to the uk. also, i am about 3/4 of the way through jesus and nonviolence: a third way by walter wink. i find his thesis and supporting arguments compelling, to say the least.
this is feeling like one of those 'several blogs in one day' days. more to come.
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j.wiebe
current situation: my visa has not come in yet. bummer. i mailed it off about 3 weeks, the government says its supposed to take 2 weeks and here i find myself, still in reedley. there was a restlessness for a time, mainly around last weekend which is when i was supposed to be going, that has been replaced with an assurance that i will get there when i need to get there. all of this free time affirms my notion that i could never be a housewife. too distracted too easily. and i spend too much time in thought and not on action.
with my free time, my media intake has heightened considerably. i have been working my way through season 5 of seinfeld as well as select episodes of the office season 3. (thanks to tim.) i watched superbad last night with a few friends. needles to say, it was quite vulgar, over-the-top dialogue-wise, and imbalanced in character development. there are few times when i become uncomfortable with language. this was definitely one of those times. enough of that. i have also downloaded seasons of gangland and this american life from the itunes store in anticipation of a long plane ride to the uk. also, i am about 3/4 of the way through jesus and nonviolence: a third way by walter wink. i find his thesis and supporting arguments compelling, to say the least.
this is feeling like one of those 'several blogs in one day' days. more to come.
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j.wiebe
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