This weekend my parents and I went to Santa Cruz for the day. Here are some pics that we took when we were there.

Last time I posted I was sitting in an empty room. Now I am home and trying to unpack and organize everything in my room at home. Thankfully, my flight home was on time so I did not spend countless hours waiting in airports.

Many of you are probably thinking, “What?!?! Dan had an airport story with everything going as it should?!?!” Well, the answer to that question is yes and no. Yes, everything was on time, but I was disappointed with how much I had to pay to get my …

Well, my room is practically empty, my suitcases are packed,  random stuff in rubbermaid bins for the summer, and only a little more than two days left at Maranatha this semester.. As I was putting some duct tape on one of the bins to keep it closed, I realized that my class notes for a test i have tomorrow where in that bin. OH WELL!!
I am writing to say that it is somewhat depressing to have an empty room. Sure, we didn’t have much decoration in the room throughout the …

Last night I was trying to study for a test but was distracted by the sunsets. Yes, that is right. I said sunsets. It was a sunny day maybe 55ish degrees so I was wearing a sweathirt (my Giants one, of course, because they were playing the Dodgers). As I was walking from the coffee shop to my room, I realized that it was a nice pleasant evening, so I sat down on the ground in front of the library and never made it back to my room. As I …

WOW!!! Only 3 weeks of school left!
Where has this semester gone? It seems like I was just home for Cristmas and now I am getting ready to go home for the summer. I am not sure that I like that idea. Don’t get me wrong, I am excited to be going home, but I will also miss all of my friends. Unfortunately this is not like Christmas, it will not be a short three week break. It is going to be almost four months long.
There will be some good parts …

Well today is the opening day for the greatest sports franchise ever, the Giants (sorry, to anyone that wants to disagree with this, but the Giants are the first and only team in any professional sport to have 10,000 franchise victories). In past years I would have been super-excited, this is not to say that I am not excited because I am. But there is something different about baseball season this year.
I probably won’t watch a lot of games this year. I don’t quite know how to feel about this. …

I haven’t posted in a while because I have been on band tour. We left the Wednesday before Spring Break, returned about two hours ago, and go back to class tomorrow. During our tour we had concerts in 7 different states (Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Illinois) and we also drove through part of Delaware, which means that I have been in 7 more states than I had been in before Band Tour (I was in PA two years ago). We played in churches of many shapes …

So this is what it’s like,
A true winter season.
I’ve had eighteen years without any snow,
Now it seems as if I’ve had nothing but, for eight straight months.
Sunshine used to mean that it was warm outside,
Now it only means that it isn’t snowing.
Weather reports become your best friends,
Especially when they predict a warming trend.
Before I go much further,
This poem was not written so that I could murmur.
But rather to say,
That I want spring to come and stay.
Until that day comes,
I will not twiddle my thumbs.
For to do that would mean,
That I …

I was listening to some music today on my computer and came across the song “Home” from Beauty and the Beast on Broadway. While listening to it I began to think of where home was for me.
Now, anyone that knows me, should not have any trouble knowing that I am from San Francisco. This is one fact that I am never ashamed to tell anyone. Sometimes maybe I talk about San Francisco too much.
Everyone knows that “Home is where the heart is.” As I was thinking about where my heart …

Confusing blog title isn’t it, but it does represent the way I felt the last two days. But before I tell you about the last to days, I have to give you a bit of background information. On my night cleaning crew of seven people and sometimes and eight, I was the only one that was healthy last week. About half of the friends that I hang out with were sick last week…actually lets just say that almost everyone on campus has been sick except for me. I thought that …