Of Shattered Worlds

Writing a Fantasy book titled "Of Shattered Worlds". If anyone's interested, here's the source of the blog I have for it:

www.ofshatteredworlds.blogspot.com

Notes: written under a pen name, "Alexander Glidewell"

 Also, I believe commenting is disabled, but you are free to email me if you desire at dwindelspect@gmail.com

Cara Mira

My dear, beautiful darling, my child that i admire.
To my dear, farewell!
My dear girl,
why not walk far away from science?
My dear, dear girl.
To my lovely.
To my dear.
To my dear.
To my child,
My dear,
dear to me!

I think its a beautiful song....I love it :)

Hey Guys!

Just posting about my life- I think I'll have less "diary" blogs in the future, and more writing ones. Reasons below.

Few things going on- Cross Country started, just ran my first race today. I broke up with Andrea (huge sad face :( ) but I'm trying my hardest to get her back....so, while that sucks awfully, things are going to work out. Trust me.

School started one and a half weeks ago. I'm taking Online Algebra II, English 205 (2nd course honors level), Civics and Economics Honors, and CREATIVE WRITING!!

Which, of course, is my favorite class. When we get our laptops this week, I can start posting everything I write to by blog without difficulty. Until then, I may be going dark, but not for too long.

I realize that I never finished posting about the Dominican, so here's my extremely short speed-run on all of it (after Friday):

Saturday- went to a small village for the day, and brought tons of toys to the kids and just played with them all day. They have these little fruits, which are green and you crack them open with your teeth, they taste between a grape and an orange- very good! The tree in the center of the school courtyard ( we were at their school for the duration)was filled with them. And its nice seeing little kids smile :) even if you can't understand them well.

Sunday- massive church day. I can't remember the entire day, as it was going on 3 weeks ago, but I do remember going to some Spanish church for 3 hours (yeah, three), where I couldn't understand a thing because it was in a different language. And...i don't do well with church anyways.

Monday- Went to the village we went to on Saturday again, and helped re-paint the entire school. It was nice seeing the kids again :)

Tuesday- went to a different village, this one much poorer than the other (which was still extremely poor). All the kids there were SO sweet though, and we made them all lunch and took pictures and played games- it was hot, but i loved it.

Wednesday- Beach day! Both good and bad, for a few reasons, but overall it was pretty nice. Good day to just relax.

Thursday- Took a bus to Santo Dominico, the capital, and took a historical tour of the richer-er district, along with going to some cave complex where they filmed part of Jurassic Park known as "the tigers eye". We got on the plane to Miami after an hour delay, but because of such we missed out second flight by like 15 minutes. After arguing with the American Airlines customs people for like, 2 hours, they finally gave us lodges in this FANTASTIC sports resort called the Doral for the night. By the time we got there though, it was like 12, and after dinner we had around 2 hours to sleep before we had to leave to catch or flight back to Charlotte. Yeah, LONG travel day.

I'll post some of my favorite pictures later on when I get time!

-Devon

Love this song

Kinda how I feel right now.

Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie

Be back soon

Having a rough couple of weeks- broke up with Andrea, fought with my Best Friend, High School started, and I'm overall pretty stressed out. I'll start posting again soon, once I get things settled out.

Devin

Dominican Mission Trip: Friday

Well, I got back on Friday after some god awful traveling, and I've spent the last couple of days resting (and running cross country twice a day, 2 hours each...blegh). School is in a week, so I'm kind of racing the clock on summer. Anyways, here's my rundown of the trip (starting with Friday)

Friday: Travel day. Arrived at the church at 11:00 on Thursday and took the two-hour car ride to Charlotte in the middle of the night. Our driver, Trey, who is honestly the funniest guy I've ever met (he is 22 and in college, and was chaperoning us the entire trip) probably made this one Indian guy's night...singing and making fun while he was leading us from the parking lot to the airport.

Got to the airport around 1:30 and had to wait till 4 until the terminals opened up. Some of the kids started racing and everything in the wheelchairs and overall being loud and rowdy, which meant 0 sleep at all for Devin (and the other people sleeping in the airport). Finally got on the plane at around 5:30 after going through security, and spent the rest of the 2-hour flight to Miami trying to get some sleep on a three-seat-to-a-row plane. Extremely uncomfortable. Got to Miami, immediately jumped on a much larger plane to the Dominican. Another 2-hour flight, than customs and security and we were in.

Met up with our four local "chaperons" from COI (christian outreach international), who were probably the happiest people I've ever met. 45-minute car ride to San Pedro, the city where we would be staying at, and immediately had lunch. Pasta, but not like I've known..they put goat cheese on EVERYTHING, and it was...unexpected to say the least. Had about an hour of rest at the house we were staying at before going to some local bible camp. Kids were really cute, but I couldn't understand a word they said :p Rested for another couple of hours before going to church, which involved two hours of singing and dancing and more Spanish. Soooooo confusing.

Went out to some Calzone place (no idea how to spell that) at around 11, then came "home" and went to sleep. Thats after 36 hours of staying wide awake. Suffice to say, i was pooped.

I'll post on the other days throughout the week!

Off to the Dominican!

Leaving for the Dominican Republic at around 11/11:30 tonight with the church. Taking a bus down to Charlotte for about 2 hours, than staying at the airport for another two or three. Finally board our plain at 5 in the morning.....UGH.

And, I have anxiety problems...and I hate flying...so this should be fun :P Everything will be alright I know, but I'm already nervous and its what...6?

Anyways, while we're they we're going to the beach for a day (Andreas going with me so that will be fun :) ) and visiting the actual site where they filmed Jurassic Park. Other days we're going to spend working at a Dominican Village, helping build a school and other charity stuff. Should be fun!

Anyways, now for the bad stuff...Malaria (I'm taking pills, so I should be good) unclean water, disease, 100+ temperatures (ugggggh) and all that fun stuff. I hope everything is going to be okay :(

Well, wish me luck! I'll post again in about a week!

Devon