panama

panama was great. i can't even begin to describe it. all i know is that i feel like a completely different person. i guess 3 days with only the clothes on your back does that to you. i really don't care as much about all the things that used to consume me. hair. make up. clothes. i still like them, but i've realized that there is so much more to life than trying to look good. there i better things i can spend my time and money on. i know this sounds...not really cliche, but...i dont know. i'm just different. but i digress... we didn't have any luggage for 3 days because i flight to atlanta was about 3 hour late, due to circling around atlanta for an hour, and running out of fuel and having to hi-tail it to Alabama to get more. so when we finally did land in Atlanta, we had to literally run to our next flight, which Joe was stalling...so, long story short, our luggage didn't make it on our plane and ended up in Belgium or something. so talk about an interesting experience. we all stunk. but at least we stunk together...anyway, panama was amazing. i made some really great friends. both panamanian and american. and i love and miss them all. i was the lucky one on the trip. since i was in charge of "Web Development" or whatever, the majority of my mornings were spent in Stan's air conditioned office. It was nice. now if i only hadn't have had to use a mac! i also had a great Bible school group. they were all so sweet! i miss them so much. i just want to cry thinking about them.

school starts in 5 days. i'm really not excited. this summer has been soooo great. now if only my sophomore can live up to the summer. that would be great...but heres to my friends new and old! lol. i feel like its New Year's! lol.

In other news, i've gotten addicted to a band called Falling up. they are totally awesome. I love what their "sounds like" section on Myspace says

if you go to the ocean during the night, the voices of people far away can be heard clearly. You may wonder, is it because it is quieter at night than in the daytime? However, it is only one of the reasons. Actually, sound transmits farther at night may be related to refraction of sound waves! First, sound is the vibration of air, and it is a kind of wave motion. The propagation of sound wave is faster in hot air and slower in cold air. Therefore regions of air at different temperatures have different refractive indices, just like media with different optical densities. When sound wave propagates in air whose temperature changes with altitude, refraction of air happens. Sound will move towards areas with lower temperatures. In the daytime, when the sun shines the earth, the air near the earth surface is hotter than the air above. Sound waves will be refracted to the sky. On the contrary, in the nighttime, the air near the surface is cooler and sound waves are refracted to the earth surface.

that is so awesome. listen to them here.

also check out the website that i worked some on for our panama trip. click here!
btw, we've had a lot more hits than what the counter says. i accidentally reset it at some point during the trip.