A Sympathetic Look At Difference

I took a critical reasoning class in Philosophy at Tyndale. We got a sheet of paper, that I still have to this day, that listed out all of the fallacies that people use when making…

Links for August 07, 2007

We’ve been talking a lot about humour lately and how old people have such a different humour than we do, and wondering if in 30 years when we get older if our kids will think…

Action or Understanding

The more I desire to be active with my faith the more I realize the thin line between activism and self-absorbed acting. It’s a difficult line to see because part of me care very little…

Ideas Worth Spreading

The past two months, while traveling and resting I have read a lot of books, well a lot for me anyway. It was a lot of reading on international development, foreign aid, economics and new…

Sarnia Short Film Festival 2007

We are running the Sarnia Short Film Festival here in Sarnia this year on October 6th. 7 minute maximum films need to be submitted by MiniDV or DVD by Sept 24. Submissions from any city…

Should You Give to A Beggar?

I remember the first time I experienced a beggar on the street. It was in Toronto and he looked right at me and my friends, I was around 14 years old and he asked me…

Paris Day 30 & 31

This will be my last post about the trip. We start our trek back to London, England today, sleep at the airport, and then fly out tomorrow morning. It’s been a good ride so far…

Paris Day 29

Rachel posted about our 29th day, so I won’t. I will post a few pictures of the Eiffel Tower fireworks and such if they turned out later. Rachel also told a story of my Q-tip…

Running With the Bulls Day 28

Yesturday I ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Check out what happened there the day before I did it (just to show you what I was up against.) I didn’t find out until after…

Barcelona Day 28 and 29

You can tell I’m getting frustrated with the foreign keyboards because the letters are all in different places, my posts are a lot shorter. I’m missing my laptop more than ever know. Rachel and I…

Nice and Monaco Day 26 & 27

Yesterday we spent the day in Nice, sitting on the beach (getting a wicked sunburn). We also got bored later at night so we went to see Ocean’s 13 in the small little theatre close…

Florence and Nice Day 24 & 25

There was a change of plans since last post. After I posted Rachl was feeling even worse to we went to the hospital there and got her checked out. They kept her overnight there and…

Rome, Florence Day 21, 22 & 23

Since the last post Rachel and I have gone to Rome and Florence. Rome was beautiful. It’s hard to describe how history that goes back that far makes you feel. The sisteen chapel is beautiful,…

Travelling Day 19 & 20

The last two days have been pure travel. Santorini’s beach will be missed, here is a picture below. We left Santorini at 10pm on Sunday night and its now 2pm on Tuesday, we don’t arrive…

Santorini, Greece Day 16, 17 & 18

Rachel and I have been in Santorini, Greece for the past three days. Santorini is beautiful. The houses are built into the thousand foot cliffs that the island is made up and it is supposed…

Italy and Greece Day 12, 13, 14, 15

We arrived in Venice finally after an overnight train ride with not very good sleeping patterns and in long conversations with a ex-Fransiscan monk (by conversation I mean that Rachel listened to him talk for…

Germany and Austria Day 10 & 11

It´s becoming sort of a whirlwind at this point. We are flying way too fast through every city, and coutry trying to experience everything at once and getting to our flight that leaves for Greece….

Amsterdam Day 7

One thing that sticks out about Amsterdam is the large quanties of bikes EVERYWHERE. It is quite ridiculous. They don’t have parking garages with three or four floors for cars, but they do for their…

Day 5 & 6 in Brussels

Today and last night we spent in Belgium (Brussels if you want to know the city, Darryl). It was probably the most beautiful city I have ever seen. The architecture was out of this world…