Almost finished.

I'm sitting in a room with my colleagues of the Berlin CELTA course. It's nearly over. Crazy to think it's gone so fast. I taught last evening for my last assessed teaching, and I finished up my last assignment yesterday too. Basically, we're finished at this point with just a few more administrative things to sit through. It's been such a good course. Right now, we're just sitting around waiting for an assignment to be handed back to us.

I'm listening to Sufjan Stevens' version of Holy, Holy, Holy and I just about started crying right in this room in the midst of all these people. That would have been embarrassing.

Heather and I are able to leave the school a little early tonight since we don't have to teach tonight. We're gonna look at a couple of museums tonight and go to a Christmas Market. Those things are so popular around here. They're just really cool.

So, our time is almost finished. We leave next Wednesday, less than a week. We'll try to see as much of Berlin as we can before then. It's gone so fast.

We miss you all and hope we get to see you sometime during the holidays before we head to Colorado for some training in January. We hope to see you soon!

Later guys,
Matt

Happy Birthday, Heather Mae!

Yes, just that. Happy 22nd!

2 years worth of Apples

So today is a special day for me.

On this day two years ago, I officially joined the world of Macintosh. Two years ago my incredible friends surprised me with this pretty cool tool I've used nearly every day since then. My iBook has been running for two years, and I'm happy to say I still love using it. Sure, it shows signs of wear. It's a laptop computer! But it is still running great. It's traveled miles and miles. It's been to Yangon and Mandalay, Bangkok and Chiang Mai, Thailand, Taipei, Taiwan, Berlin, Germany, California to Virginia, Michigan to Florida. It's been with me nearly everywhere I've been.

Thanks again to my friends for this incredible gift. I am still learning how to use it better and better. And sure, it's behind the standard for computers that are available today. But I don't mind. Sure, it can't do as many things as an Intel Mac can do. But I'm proud to say I was a Mac user in the Power PC days. Before the popular commercials. Before the Dual Core processors. Before the cool iSight came built in. It can still do a lot of things though. And it still does a lot of things better than any PC can do. And especially better than any PC running Vista can do.

And I still get excited when someone tells me they are making the switch to Mac.

Here's to two years on my 1.33 GHz 12 in. iBook G4. Going strong (in spite of its need of more RAM).

Later guys,

Matt

December Newsletter

It's that time again. Our newsletter is finished, and is posted on the sidebar down the left. Notice the new style! We like it, and thanks go to the NMSI Publications department!

We're nearly finished in Berlin. We have only one week remaining of classes and teaching, then we leave Germany to head home for Christmas on December 12th. It's amazing how fast things have gone here! Thanks for your prayers, we definitely appreciate them as we continue to do a lot of hard and time-consuming work! We hope to see you soon!

Welcome to December!

Later guys,

Matt

P.S. A few changes around here. Don't look too far and you might find something new! Go ahead, take a click. 

And don't expect to much from it. ;-)