Oh. My. God. It's happening soon. I'll be in Venezuela in three days. Keep checking this blog as it'll be the OFFICIAL PLACE OF ALL THINGS GILAD AND VENEZUELA!
So yea, if you can, throw out some prayers for the following things:
- mine and my teams health and safety
- the people we will be helping
- my team not hating me
Buenos Noches.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Top xx List of Things That I Need To Do Before I Die...
1. Successfully lead my team (or a team) to Venezuela.
2. Return to Modesto, California and help New Hope.
3. Make sure I hike to Port Dover with Bryson (and possibly Dave W)
4. Backpack/walk across Canada. Start off by dipping my leg (ala Terry Fox) into the Atlantic Ocean and finishing up (ala not Terry Fox, unfortunately) by dipping my leg into the Pacific Ocean.
5. Spend at least 1 month living in each continent.
6. Get married to an incredible woman who I am madly in love with (got the second part of that covered already)
7. Return to Israel on my own terms (i.e. not on an organized trip).
8. Convince my parents that in most cases, I know what's better for me than they do.
9. Attend a Toronto Raptors Finals NBA Championship game.
10. Be the best man at at least one of my friends' weddings.
11. Get to know my little sister.
12. Learn Spanish.
13. Get as close to God as is humanly possible on my part.
14. Read the entire Bible/Torah/Quran.
15. Backpack across Europe.
16. Become a wine conoisseur.
17. Learn to play an instrument, properly.
18. Forgive my father.
19. Forgive my uncle.
20. Repay my parents in some way.
2. Return to Modesto, California and help New Hope.
3. Make sure I hike to Port Dover with Bryson (and possibly Dave W)
4. Backpack/walk across Canada. Start off by dipping my leg (ala Terry Fox) into the Atlantic Ocean and finishing up (ala not Terry Fox, unfortunately) by dipping my leg into the Pacific Ocean.
5. Spend at least 1 month living in each continent.
6. Get married to an incredible woman who I am madly in love with (got the second part of that covered already)
7. Return to Israel on my own terms (i.e. not on an organized trip).
8. Convince my parents that in most cases, I know what's better for me than they do.
9. Attend a Toronto Raptors Finals NBA Championship game.
10. Be the best man at at least one of my friends' weddings.
11. Get to know my little sister.
12. Learn Spanish.
13. Get as close to God as is humanly possible on my part.
14. Read the entire Bible/Torah/Quran.
15. Backpack across Europe.
16. Become a wine conoisseur.
17. Learn to play an instrument, properly.
18. Forgive my father.
19. Forgive my uncle.
20. Repay my parents in some way.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
I don't know which way I'm going... I don't know which way I've come...
Hold my hand inside your hands... I need someone who understands. I need someone, someone who hears. For you i've waited all these years.
**
I was totally planning on writing a post on the absolute depressive side of getting robbed. Of having someone tear through your room, go through your personal belongings and steal those things which are worth most to you. This awful event recently plagued our student house...
And then this song came on by Coldplay. It's funny how little things like songs can lift you up through the thickest of moods... through the most dreadful of moments... and help you formulate a clean, healthy & loving thought. I've been very fortunate over the last little while to meet some beautiful people in this world... and particularily... to meet a strong and passionate woman whose drive for making this world a better place not only helps others, but inspires me to do the same. I'm very lucky to have formed the strongest of bonds with Dawna... someone who I see salvation through.
When things get stolen... when close friends cut deep... when family members don't understand... when i'm at my absolute lowest with no where to go... I still have Dawna.
I've always considered her my personal angel. She's lifted me up from the gutters... from a world of awful thoughts, actions and goals, to a place where I can see God through a clearer light.
Here's to the greatest person i've ever met.
**
I was totally planning on writing a post on the absolute depressive side of getting robbed. Of having someone tear through your room, go through your personal belongings and steal those things which are worth most to you. This awful event recently plagued our student house...
And then this song came on by Coldplay. It's funny how little things like songs can lift you up through the thickest of moods... through the most dreadful of moments... and help you formulate a clean, healthy & loving thought. I've been very fortunate over the last little while to meet some beautiful people in this world... and particularily... to meet a strong and passionate woman whose drive for making this world a better place not only helps others, but inspires me to do the same. I'm very lucky to have formed the strongest of bonds with Dawna... someone who I see salvation through.
When things get stolen... when close friends cut deep... when family members don't understand... when i'm at my absolute lowest with no where to go... I still have Dawna.
I've always considered her my personal angel. She's lifted me up from the gutters... from a world of awful thoughts, actions and goals, to a place where I can see God through a clearer light.
Here's to the greatest person i've ever met.
Monday, April 9, 2007
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