soccer field in the small town by the caves "muc´bil ha´" (Hidden water). Here I had a nice conversation with a man by the town.
I like this picture.
At Tikal. Spectacular.
host cousin Maynor, host brother Selbil, and closest, cousin Marvin. We went swimming two or three times in this pristine river near where we live. Now I like to takes runs along the river, though I am a little afraid of snakes.If WalMart had started out as a do-good NGO with the purpose of providing food and other household projects at a cheaper price while freeing up their time by reducing shopping time, would we consider it today a hugely successful attempt to help and attend to the needs of ordinary people?
And secondly, if WalMart had really started out with high minded intentions, would it have been nearly as successful as it is today. Instead of a hugely successful capitalist enterprise, would we think of it as a being disturbingly communist-like in its huge big-blockness, destruction of individuality (especially with its destruction of small businesses), and its big picture central planning. And instead of having hordes of minimum wage workers, would it maximize its efficiency with smiling volunteers, knocking down prices everyday.
If washers and dryers had been taken up as a cause by womens liberation groups to free women from having to slave away hand washing clothes, would anybody today be using them? Or would whatever organization have handed out a few thousand and found that then, most women wouldn´t except washers and dryers, being something that they didn´t need, and therefore unable to accept as a hand out.
Why don{t most large businesses "have a heart"? And more importantly, why don{t we demand that businesses have a heart?Jordan
And for the record, I try to avoid WalMart, but maybe that is just because I have enough money to afford disdain for it.
Ps. I already have written a post on what I actually do here, so look for that soon.
me at "hidden water." Looking cool. I finally found a cord and got some pictues onto my USB, so I´ll also probably post some more pictures soon.
Elijah and I riding bike in Cambodia. It was a lot of fun. Joseph took this picture from his bike. We also rode our bikes on the big roads withcrazy trafic. That was fun.
ok, this is actually not from this summer, but I just realized that thanks to Jennifer Gingrich who studied at CASAS the last two months, I actually CAN post a picture or two from Guatemala. The front three girls are Audry, Carrie, and Jennifer (all CASAS students) in the back from theleft is Lucy oneof the CASAS directors, Rachel fellow SALTer, David fellow SALTER, me yes I am wearing a sheet of plasitc (I ripped a head hole and tied the edges to make it like a poncho) and next to me is Tina. We are standing next to some awesome Mayan ruins. On this trip we saw two sites, and both were pretty awesome despite the rain.
Kyle Unruh came back with me to California and we had a grand time doing things like this. That´s a dead giant sequioa (forget how that´s spelled). We also went to the beach, visited Jenny in Berkeley, and, of course, enjoyed sites of Reedley.
This is the day before graduation I think. from left to right- Evan Fast, Greg Shelley, Aaron Voth, Kyle Unruh, Jordan Penner, and Jenny Regier. These are all people I lived with this last year (except Jenny). We missed the presence of other modmates Jordan Bartel and Isaac Olsen (aka number 2). This post is kind of the result of some recent nostalgia for Bethel College. Sorry to the old 6C that a picture of you guys is not on here, at the moment it is not on here. I miss how easy it was to be with lots of friends, all the time. I miss eating three meals a day with a different selection of friends every meal, late nights doing work and or avoiding it, convocations to round out the week and all kinds of other stuff revolving around having a great community of good people handed to you on a silver platter. I could go on, but I am focing myself to stop.
SPRING BREAK- well this was my last spring break group anyways. Cari Holliday (who once studied here in guatemala) Peter Miller (fellow History major) Kim Schmidt (who also studied in Guatemala) and Miriam Friesen (who also was a fellow History major). I showed this picture to my family and my host mom said that I looked much thinner in it. uh oh.
And finally here is a good picture of my family in Cambodia with new inductee Sina Yang. In front of a temple in Anchor Wat. I think I like long hair better...
