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I'm Home!!!

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:01:49 GMT

Yay so I'm home! Well I've been home for like five days now actually, but here's a post! I had a great team and we had a wicked cool summer!!! So yeah, all of you should visit Iceland and the Faroe Islands, they're really cool places...

Oooh look! now you can write me letters!

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:35:10 GMT

Here's my summer addresses. Overseas mail is cheaper (or so TMI tells me) if you use areograms...so if anybody wants to write me a letter you should use 'em.

Video Department (until June 12^th)

Jay Lingley

TMI Volunteer

880 East Hall Road
Merritt Island, FL 32953

Bootcamp (until June 30^th)

Teen Missions Team 06013
Jay Lingley
871 East Hall Road
Merritt Island, FL 32953

Faroe Islands (until July 21^st)

Teen Missions Team 06013
Jay Lingley
YWAM Faroe Islands
Postboks 1227
FAROE ISLANDS

Debrief (until August 1^st)

Teen Missions Team 06013
Jay Lingley
Filadelfia Church
Hatun 2
105 Reykjavik
ICELAND

Homeschool ALUMNI National Reunion 2006!

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:09:12 GMT

Homeschool graduates are everywhere, but who are they? What are they doing? And where are they going? Join alumni from across the nation at this 3 day event specifically for homeschool graduates! It's a weekend packed with panel discussions, presentations, conversation, music, fun activities and fellowship with graduates who share your core values and life experiences! July, 28th-30th • Register now, space is limited! www.HomeschoolAlumni.org/reunion

Bye bye peoples!

Tue, 30 May 2006 22:00:48 GMT

Hey look I posted!
Sooo...I'm leaving here on Sunday. I'll be back sometime the end of August, prolly around the 21st. I was signed up to go back to Africa but a few weeks ago Teen Missions asked for a male leader to volunteer to switch to another team because they were really short on guy leaders (every team needs atleast two guy leaders and two girl leaders). So yeah I ended up volunteering for the transfer and was moved to a team going to the other side of the world. I'm now going to spend my summer in the Faroe Islands. Don't feel bad if you have no idea where those are...I didn't either until a little while ago! They're a small group of islands waaay out in the middle of nowhere in the ocean between Iceland and the UK...sort of right up near the arctic circle. I have between 26 and 30 kids on my team so it will be pretty fun! I'll post my addresses later in case anybody wants to write me letters

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Here is the TMI write-up on my team if anybody wants to read it.
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Faroe Islands #06013

Dates: June 21 - August 11 - Work/Ev. - England/Iceland

Where in the world are the Faroe Islands? Located just north of the Shetland Islands, WHERE? Okay…north of England is this small nation made up of 18 islands, with a population of approximately 48,000. Be a part of the first Teen Missions team that is going to work alongside Youth With a Mission (YWAM) Faroe Islands, using the evangelism and practical work skills learned at Boot Camp. After Commissioning you bus to the Orlando International Airport to board your flight that takes you along the east coast of the United States and Canada, the Labrador Sea, Greenland and the Atlantic Ocean, before arriving in London, England. From London you fly to Reykjavik, Iceland and bus 12 hours along the south coast passing by numerous waterfalls and Vatnajokull, Europe’s largest glacier, before arriving in Egilsstadir for an overnight stay. From Egilsstadir you continue on to Seydisfjordur where you board a ferry for the 16-hour cruise to Torshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. A quick transfer to an inter-island ferry takes you to your first project site on the south island of Suduroy, where you help renovate YWAM’s house by painting, repairing fences and re-constructing a sidewalk up a hill. After your time on Suduroy, you return to Torshavn to do open-air evangelism in the city parks and squares during the summer festival held at the end of July. This is a country-wide festival and many of the Faroese who work overseas return home at this time to be with their families. Housing will be in dorms and showers are available; laundry will be done using a bucket. You will have time to hike some of the island’s mountains or along the coast, and to shop for hand-knit Faroese sweaters and scarves, wooden boats and Viking memorabilia. After the project time, you return to Iceland for Debrief. After Debrief you return to London for an overnight stay. While in London you may see Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, the Tower Bridge and Westminster Abbey. (Note: Iceland Debrief)

Monday, April 17, 2006

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:16:42 GMT

oh yes, and I got a haircut...here's a picture (by special request)

The sister, she is now wed

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:08:01 GMT

So yes...she's all hitched right and proper now. It was a rather nice wedding I think (but heck I've only been to one before this so I'm not really an authority on weddings!). I was supposed to be an usher but in reality I didn't do much ushing...I got to do video instead That was pretty fun. It went pretty well for the most part except for the part when the minister says "you may kiss your bride". They did the whole kiss thing really fast and I missed most of it. After the whole thing was over we actually got them to go back up front, reajust the lighting, and do the whole kiss over again...now that was WICKED funny! Jeff even picked Sarah up and did the whole swoop kiss deal hehe. It was all really a blast. I've decided I like weddings. Maybe I should marry someone so that I can eat cake and have people all come give me gifts and money and ohh and ahh... :-p

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:47:29 GMT

Here's where I work. I decided to post this too so that there will be someplace else for people to leave all sorts of lovely comments for me. Cool, aye?

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:41:55 GMT

Okay peoples...I'm giving in and posting something. It's not much, because I'm tired and I have to get up early so I'm going to go to bed soon, but have fun. So yeah, I've been working a lot recently-it's pretty much work, eat sleep. I work in the ticket department at this ski resort called Bretton Woods...I'm the guy who checks everyone's passes and keeps you from getting onto the chairlifts if you don't have one/are drunk/have someone else's pass/or other random reasons. I'm also learning to snowboard which is pretty fun and interesting. I've spent about five or six hours at it so far and I think I'm starting to get the idea...but I still fall down a lot! hehe So there you have it, an update!

Sunday, January 01, 2006

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:46:26 GMT

HAPPY NEW YEARS PEOPLE!!!!!!!

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Sun, 25 Dec 2005 06:07:55 GMT

Most normal people sleep on Christmas Eve. But meh, who needs sleep? Besides, it has really warmed up here and tonight was like 30ish so there's like two feet of really wet packy snow on the ground. So yeah, instead of going to bed...Heather, Sarah, Esther, Hannah and I went outside around 12am and built a snowman. A really really big snowman. Like an 11 foot tall snowman. We had to use an inclined plane to get his mid-section up there, which was interesting (and awfully heavy too!). He doesn’t have a name (really, who names snowmen??) but we thought he looked pretty cute with his little flowerpot hat and all. It was pretty fun actually…hah, I hadn’t built a snowman in a really long time!