After an overnight flight and a 2 hour layover in another Greek airport I’m finally in Kalamata, Greece. This journey was long and frustrating for a few reasons. The first being that I when I got here my cell phone didn’t work. I had just gone through torture trying to get it to work in the UK and found a place where I could purchase a sim card for it to work in the UK and, from what the salesman told me, in Greece. Yeah Right!!! I got off the plane and turned on my phone, only for a big NO SERVICE to pop up on my phone, so I was without communication. Not only that, but by me not having a laptop I’m forced to wait to use a community computer, sharing it with the other 40 or so athletes that didn’t bring or don’t have a laptop. The second is that my roommate on this trip smokes. I walked into the room and what is the first thing I see?? 2 packs of cigarettes on the dresser. WHAT!!! Your an athlete and you smoke cigarettes!! WOW!!! A good one at that, he was one top high jumpers competing in the meet. Things truly are different on the other side of the world. Well I’m going to get ready to eat and relax a little before I go to the track. I’ll write more later.
Jun 03
June 25th, 2008 at 4:30 am
God is everywhere. Find a way to keep the smoke away from you by asking him to smoke outside. He may be able to do that but maybe you cannot. Never allow yourself to become bored or lonesome because those are times the devil work best. Here are a few ways to keep focus on your down time: Sing, Place a part of pant under your matress and sleep the wrinkles out, write a poem or story to help encouraged others to stay focus, challenge your roommate to teach each other everyday words in their language, rewrite your goals, tell God how much you love Him and thank Him for your focus state of mind, cast your fears on the water (literally),take pictures (more than usual) for your sister complete a personal scrapbook for you, challenge yourself to not spend any money on a specific day,and if these are not enough let me know. Love Your Michigan Family