It’s been a while since I’ve recapped the big stuff in my life, so here’s what went down in 2007.
At the risk of seeming like a complete nerd, I thought I’d share five goals I set in August 2006 before leaving Arizona to complete my last year at The University of Auckland. I’ll share what […]

Just as my stars are starting to align for the future, I got some bad news this week. My good friend Ellie unfortunately has to move back to Singapore on extremely short notice. What a bummer. I met Ellie back in 2004 when we lived in O’Rorke. I didn’t really hang with her much then, […]

Okay, for for the none of you that read my blog on a regular basis, you’d know that back in November of 2007 I wrote my first blog post in over 2 years recapping the previous couple years of my life. In the post I promised a series of 9 following posts to give a […]

So after Europe, a brief trip home, and a cross-country drive, I got to work full time at the Phoenix offices of the software firm I had been working for remotely in New Zealand.
(Just in case you’re wondering, I have intentionally concealed information about the company to prevent the competition from finding my blog.)
Looking back […]

Honestly, I can’t remember too many of the details from April 2004 until finishing my first year at The University of Auckland in November of 2004. In a broad sense, I mostly think most about the friends I met in Auckland including Albo, Camilla, Graham, Jack, Jesse, Jo, Kai, Lara, Lucy, Matt, Onur, Rook, Sam, […]

It’s been a little while since I last wrote but a lot of stuff has been happening and I haven’t really had time to sit down, think, and let it all sink in. Now that I have, I’m quite happy with my decision to come here to New Zealand even though not everything is a […]

I thought i would share an email with you that I recently wrote to my friend Andrew in New Zealand:
Hi Andrew
How are things going with the Oman promotion? In the off chance it does happen, I decided that it wouldn’t be a smart thing for me to participate in. I have a lot of paperwork […]

ok i decided to keep this journal because i’m going to be moving to the other side of the planet and i want to document this experience so i can better understand myself and mainly so i can share my experiences with the people in my life, many of whom I will be leaving in […]