ALMOST FINISHED!

Last Saturday we laid the bricks for the hearth floor (which is where the
cooking will happen) then we started building the sand mound.
Then we rebuilt it this Saturday because
a sand mound cannot stay the same in storms and lots of heat...


We then covered it in wet paper so it will be easier to take out, and much
slower than planned built up the first layer of our wall. In a few days it will be
ready to have its first firing!

the walls are built. now on to insulation

Our neighbors came over and helped us build up the walls.
The last picture shows the start of the insulation layers where we
put a sawdust clay mixture and recycled bottles

a few more hours on the earth oven

thanks to bobby and lauren I had a a lot of sand and clay to use today..
First I had to level out the surface using rock and sand, now I'm starting to build
up the walls using recycled bottles and a sand/clay mixture from the asphalt
parking lot we are tearing up.

Moving right along

here we are filling the hole with rock pieces, gravel, and sand to level it out so we can start building our walls, which we have started as you can see in the bottom right picture.

I've decided to start posting again.

I have started a new project. It is called an earth oven and so far it has consisted of a lot of digging. This involved hitting a gas line (not breaking it), hurting my toe, terrible back pains, 100lbs of rocks, and 6 hours of work.... AND IT'S ONLY TWO FT DEEP!!!!!! The part that is being dug is about 5x5 and it needs to be 3 ft. Anyways hopefully the digging will be done by tomorrow and the building can begin.
The first picture is the site before the digging, the second shows Champ helping me out, and the third picture is an example of a finished earth oven.

It's been awhile...

I now live in Durup Denmark...

3 weeks from tomorrow I will be coming home.

less than 3 months from then I will be getting married.

and about 3 months after that I will be student teaching, hopefully.

anyone have job ideas?

good morning...

The best part about having short days is that I always
get to see the sunrise and the sunset.

Teach a fly to fly

my moment

a pitch black sky
more stars than i've ever seen
tainted by a mist of green
waving around in the air
kind of like a spirit
below
icebergs crackle
and break into the sea
that's the only thing
that breaks complete
silence


i think i'm too self-conscious about my writing
to call this a poem so i feel like i have to call it
something else so i'll call it a poetical thought

Whales, hiking, kids...

This video is actually from about a month or so ago...




band: horse feathers
song: working poor

October in Nuuk

band: mewithoutyou
song: orange spider

This is what we do with our Friday nights.

I forgot to mention me and Vibe only ate 6...

a week in ilulissat

Band: Sigur Rós
they're icelandic... but that's close to Greenland
Song: Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur

Christ's agenda

I was really excited to blog some of my recent thoughts/things God is teaching me. There are so many so I will try to combine a few so they make sense.

I think it is easy to take on the burden's of the places around us and feel pressured to do something about them. It is just not our job to do this. I can't make a difference no matter where I place myself. God wants us to rest in Him. To take a break from our busy life and the craziness going on around us and just rest in Him and His presence. Then bring that along everywhere we go.

The sick in the street used to try and just get to Peter's shadow so they would be healed. This had nothing to do with Peter's shadow, the Holy Spirit overshadowed Peter and people wanted to get a piece of that.

The most important thing for us to learn is that if we are resting in the Lord and hearing from Him then He will make things happen in our lives. It really shouldn't even have to be much of an effort on our part.

Jesus was often drawn to people from compassion. We have this same thing placed within us... if the Holy Spirit draws us to a particular person to say or do something then do it. God is still working miracles all the time but only for those who are expecting them, and acting out of Christ's perfect love.

My trip to the Ameralik

MUSIC: A popular Greenlandic band from the 80's
Band: Naneruaq
Song: Nunami Narsaannaasumi

Oh and the part where the men left with their guns. We saw 3 reindeer
they were going to shoot, but they didn't succeed.

Nuuk

Here is just a little picture update of what I've been doing/seeing.


These pictures were taken in downtown Nuuk. I go there quite often, because that's where everything is.


For dinner?

Reindeer and Muskox =)


The first day of the first year of school is a really big deal here.
(they are wearing their national outfit)


I suppose if you're used to freezing cold water this wouldn't
be a very big deal, but it was freaking cold for me!

Just listen...

I don't usually like to write posts because I feel like the the things I have to say never come out quite right when I try to portray them through words.

But I suppose it's worth a try.


The most important things I've learned so far and will continue to learn is that my life is totally incomplete without God. The first two months I was here I forgot the importance of this... and I suffered because of it. Right now I am learning to hear God's voice. It's easy to forget that God speaks to us. It's difficult to make the effort to really listen to Him. I suppose it's this way because it makes life easier for us (kind of) when we don't have to "check in" with someone all the time.

I think we get like that in our relationships too. If we aren't constantly communicating with our friends, family, boyfriends, girlfriends... we are going to forget the importance of it and that relationship is going to be weak. If God holds the most importance in my life then it just makes sense I will constantly be talking to Him and including Him in EVERYTHING. In my relationship with Tyler, even though he can't always be with me especially not now, I want him to know everything. If we were together all the time then I would talk about everything with him.

I guess I didn't realize that God really is with us all the time... or maybe I just ignored it.


Lately I have been trying really hard to ask God, or at least listen for His voice, in EVERY situation. It isn't always easy but the more I try the easier it gets.

God doesn't just speak to us about big things but He's talking to us all the time and it's our responsibility to learn to hear His voice. Once I learn to hear Him in small things (which meat to choose, which street to run on, what time to do this or that, how to say something, if i should say something) then I will become more confident with bigger things (life decisions, bold actions to take, direct words from God to speak to others).

I think I would get frustrated sometimes because I wanted God to make big things happen in my life... well that is so selfish for me to think God would work in my life when I was hardly seeking for His voice. I would sometimes, but sometimes just isn't enough.


I guess right now I am just really concentrating on making my life a prayer. It's not like every time I make a decision I'm on my knees asking for direction, but just that I'm always aware God is speaking to me... and if I'm not sure then I'll ask.
It's kind of trial and error at the beginning but I'm really starting to understand this relationship better.

green pruniferous

Music: Nive Sings
Album: Nive Nielson and Dear Children
Song: Aqqusernit
She is an indie folk artist that comes from nuuk and she sings in both english and greenlandic

Just a cup of Ice Water...

Here is a piece of Grønland