Monday, March 19, 2007
Pictures for YOU!
I now have some pictures to share with you from last month's mission trip to Egypt. Click here to check them out!!
Monday, March 05, 2007
Apology
Hello! I'm sorry I didn't update you sooner on my past trip to Egypt, but Google marked my blog as spam for some ridiculous reason. So, if you ever happen to write to Google for any reason, be sure to ream them out for being jerks and locking my blog account. Anyways, they have finally unlocked it (without giving me any freebies to ease my pain, might I add) so you can view the post below for more info on my latest adventures.
A quick summary is as follows: February 14th, 2007 a team of student from my school (myself included) flew to Cairo, Egypt to work with Sudanese refugees in their schools and churches. We returned to Canada February 26th, 2007.
The main reason I didn't tell many people about this trip is because I wanted to surprise all my friends back in Cairo when I suddenly showed up on their doorstep. It was great fun, and really good to see old friends again. Now, I should also point out that, although the trip is over and done with, I still have not completely paid for it. I believe I owe somewhere in the vicinity of $1300 (CAN) towards this trip. Sooo, if you would like to contribute your hard earned cash towards this cause, feel free! You can make cheques payable to Hungry For Life and just throw my name in to the memo area. Cheques can be mailed to:
Ryan Monson
630 833 4th Ave, SW
Calgary, AB Canada
T2P 3T5
Additionally, if you don't care about me, but you care about the Sudanese refugees, you can send cheques made out to Hungry For Life to me as well and I will make sure that it goes towards the refugee meal plans or something like that. Just make sure you're clear that you don't want the money to go towards my trip costs, but directly to the refugees. Any money I raise above my trip costs will also be put towards the Sudanese children's meal plans, or school facilities, or curriculum, or something to that effect. So, if you find yourself with some money that you think you can do without, this is a great way to invest that money. Thank you in advance for your contributions! Check back soon for pictures and perhaps some more stories about the trip.
A quick summary is as follows: February 14th, 2007 a team of student from my school (myself included) flew to Cairo, Egypt to work with Sudanese refugees in their schools and churches. We returned to Canada February 26th, 2007.
The main reason I didn't tell many people about this trip is because I wanted to surprise all my friends back in Cairo when I suddenly showed up on their doorstep. It was great fun, and really good to see old friends again. Now, I should also point out that, although the trip is over and done with, I still have not completely paid for it. I believe I owe somewhere in the vicinity of $1300 (CAN) towards this trip. Sooo, if you would like to contribute your hard earned cash towards this cause, feel free! You can make cheques payable to Hungry For Life and just throw my name in to the memo area. Cheques can be mailed to:
Ryan Monson
630 833 4th Ave, SW
Calgary, AB Canada
T2P 3T5
Additionally, if you don't care about me, but you care about the Sudanese refugees, you can send cheques made out to Hungry For Life to me as well and I will make sure that it goes towards the refugee meal plans or something like that. Just make sure you're clear that you don't want the money to go towards my trip costs, but directly to the refugees. Any money I raise above my trip costs will also be put towards the Sudanese children's meal plans, or school facilities, or curriculum, or something to that effect. So, if you find yourself with some money that you think you can do without, this is a great way to invest that money. Thank you in advance for your contributions! Check back soon for pictures and perhaps some more stories about the trip.
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Egypt: Take Two
Well friends, I made it through another trip to Egypt! In this post I have linked to some journal entries I made during my past trip. They are fairly simplistic, mainly outlining the itinerary for each day we spent in Egypt. By reading them, you'll get a good idea of some of the experiences my team and I had these past few weeks. Enjoy!
Click on a page # to read the journal entry:
Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9, Page 10, Page 11, Page 12, Page 13, Page 14.
Click on a page # to read the journal entry:
Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9, Page 10, Page 11, Page 12, Page 13, Page 14.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Friday, August 04, 2006
Pictures n Stuff
A few people have been asking to see pictures from my travels in Jordan and Israel. Well, since I'm such a nice guy, here's a link to the pictures. All of these pictures were taken by my sister, Felicia, because my camera broke shortly before we took our trip. Maybe some day I'll even get around to captioning these pictures. If not, you'll just have to invite me over for dinner so I can explain all of the pictures to you.
So what's it like to be back in Canada? It's definately kind of weird. I feel almost as though my year in Egypt was just a dream I had. I woke up and found myself in my bed in Canada, without even having to click my heels together. If it was just a dream, it was quite an amazing dream. It blew that 'Wizard of Oz' junk out of the water, in my opinion. But if this was all a dream, something fishy is going on because little things are different here and there. As I drive around the city I see new buildings that have popped up all over the place. I talk to friends and they all have stories about things they've done this past year. Where was I for all of this? Where did all these new people come from that are hanging out with my friends? Maybe all this Egypt stuff wasn't just a dream.
Maybe I was in a coma.
Then where'd all these pictures come from??
So what's it like to be back in Canada? It's definately kind of weird. I feel almost as though my year in Egypt was just a dream I had. I woke up and found myself in my bed in Canada, without even having to click my heels together. If it was just a dream, it was quite an amazing dream. It blew that 'Wizard of Oz' junk out of the water, in my opinion. But if this was all a dream, something fishy is going on because little things are different here and there. As I drive around the city I see new buildings that have popped up all over the place. I talk to friends and they all have stories about things they've done this past year. Where was I for all of this? Where did all these new people come from that are hanging out with my friends? Maybe all this Egypt stuff wasn't just a dream.
Maybe I was in a coma.
Then where'd all these pictures come from??
Saturday, July 29, 2006
I'm Baaaack!
Hi. I'm back in Canada now! Made it here without any problems (even got upgraded during my long flight). My luggage is a different story. Who knows where it is. Apparently the tracking website doesn't. Boooo!
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