School Abroad

I've begun the process of signing up for classes & doing all of the necessary paperwork for my fall semester of study in Cork Ireland. I'll be studying in the Development & Food Policy Program at University College Cork. The class lineup generally looks like this:

Introduction to Development Studies

Development, Conflict & Peace

Local Development: Structures, Strategies & Procedures

Poverty & Development

Social & Economic Aspects of Rural Development

Communication Skills in Development

Concepts of Development

Clearly, there is a trend here. I'm really looking forward to gaining a perspective which is different from just the experiential perspective that I have on these issues of development, poverty, and what we can do to help. Ultimately, I believe these will become tools that I will use as a missionary someday- bringing not only the Gospel to the nations, but practical and necessary help.

Some Nicaraguan boys I met at the park

lets try this again...

And so it begins again... blogging.

My former attempts at blogging ended abruptly when I realized that I didn't have much interesting to write or show.  Now, however, my life is changing, and perhaps becoming a bit more exciting and more compelling.

This blog is simply an avenue to keep my closest friends and family informed about what's going on, where I am, what I'm doing and any other nonsense I feel like sharing.  Knowing that I'm moving away from Maine for nearly 7 months has prompted me to do this, not to mention a desire to be more proactive about writing and documenting all of these wild adventures God leads me on.

I am choosing to keep this blog private, for now anyway, due to the nature of some of the work I'll be doing and possibly the details of what I'll be posting.  (What I mean by private is I'm not posting a link anywhere except in your inbox)

So... I'll probably do a few warm-up posts in the meantime, before the traveling begins. 

Ciao fo' now!