Résumé of the new age. You can find more like this from Francesco Mugnai's blog and you can view the PDF version of this CV.

During the summer of 2008 I attended 40 hours of Arabic Culture Awareness Training in Zarqa, Jordan. Among learning about the culture, history, and basic language.

Basic Phrases

Are you Sunni or Shia / inta sunni/shia
Please / mien favrik
How are you? / slonak?
My name is___ / ismee _TOM__
What is your name / laazim infatshak
Do you have weapons? / 'idkum asliHa
Relax / ehhdah
Who is in charge? / mino almas uul
How many? / ish ged
Surrrender / sel lim nefsek
Do not resist / let qawom
Stop / Kuff
Thank You / shukran
Open Trunk / ifta el bub
Open Door / ifta el shia
Hands Up / irffaa eidayk
Come with me / ta-aal-wiyaya

Some Photos from my Jordan Trip 

view my flickr photo stream

 

Richland Baptist Church is having a Youth Led worship service. Great way to keep the youth involved. How do you involve your youth?

Just to display why I have no time lately. In total there is 3000 pages rounded down, 14 DVD's of roughly 90 min each about 21 hrs of video. Quiz each week, discussion messages, article and book analysis and critique as well as a final exam.

Microsoft is again offering Office Ultimate 2007 for only $59.95! to Students with .edu email addresses.

Ultimate includes these 10 programs:

• Word 2007
• Excel 2007
• PowerPoint 2007
• Outlook 2007
• OneNote 2007
• Groove 2007
• Publisher 2007
• Access 2007
• InfoPath 2007
• Accounting Express 2008

That’s only $6 per program!

There are two stipulations for qualifying:

1. You must have a .edu email address.
2. “You must be a student at a U.S. educational institution and must be actively enrolled in at least 0.5 course credit and be able to provide proof of enrollment upon request.”

 

I have decided to use the BlogEngine.net project to run my blog. With this big change it will be a little while until all the previous site pages will be migrated.