A Great Birthday!!
WoW!! What a blessed and wonderful surprise to have received a box of “delicious” birthday cards for my birthday. My church sent me a box of cards and well wishes from some of the members. I had enough cards to begin opening 2 each day for 9 days before my birthday and then opened 7 ON my birthday. It was a great time of anticipation to read them each day.
I had a nice birthday celebration at the school. They had some great cake and took lots of pictures. The students made me a card and they all signed it. It was beautiful. They put the picture of me blowing out the candles on the cake on their school’s web page. What a surprise for me to get to work the next morning to open up my e-mails and see that picture! Go to http://lukio.pyhajoki.fi/ and take a look (among other pictures of school activities).
I had a nice birthday celebration at the school. They had some great cake and took lots of pictures. The students made me a card and they all signed it. It was beautiful. They put the picture of me blowing out the candles on the cake on their school’s web page. What a surprise for me to get to work the next morning to open up my e-mails and see that picture! Go to http://lukio.pyhajoki.fi/ and take a look (among other pictures of school activities).
If anyone stateside wants to call me, you can use the # 330-871-4811. It has a 330 area code so it will only be at a rate like calling to or in Ohio and not as an international call. It will come through my computer. If I’m not at home, it will go to my voice-mail and I’ll call you back. It’s a really cool system called Skype (http://www.skype.com/). It’s free to talk “computer to computer” and very inexpensive for me to call land lines. I recently read in Time or Newsweek that the creators of Skype sold it to eBay for 2.6 billion dollars. They are now working on this system called Joost to get TV onto the Internet.
I spent the birthday weekend in Kestilä doing the final phase of the vocal studio work for the CD. I am doing some checking on locating a CD packaging/distribution place in the states so that I don’t have to purchase and ship from here. The CD’s will be a lot more expensive if I ship from here. I went to Oulu (about 1 hour North-West from there) for a newspaper interview about the CD and concerts; went to the movie theater to see “Mr. Beans Holiday” movie, then back home to Pyhäjoki (the previous week I saw "Dreamgirls"). The band and I will begin our concert tour Sunday April 15th. There are 11 concerts planned so far with another 3 or 4 being negotiated.
This 6-week period of school will be over April 15th. Then we begin our last 6 week period with a June 2nd graduation date. I will be going to Switzerland April 20-27 with some of the students for a Physics Camp in Geneva. I am really looking forward to that. I haven’t been to Switzerland in 17 years – great to be going back for a visit.
I spent the birthday weekend in Kestilä doing the final phase of the vocal studio work for the CD. I am doing some checking on locating a CD packaging/distribution place in the states so that I don’t have to purchase and ship from here. The CD’s will be a lot more expensive if I ship from here. I went to Oulu (about 1 hour North-West from there) for a newspaper interview about the CD and concerts; went to the movie theater to see “Mr. Beans Holiday” movie, then back home to Pyhäjoki (the previous week I saw "Dreamgirls"). The band and I will begin our concert tour Sunday April 15th. There are 11 concerts planned so far with another 3 or 4 being negotiated.
This 6-week period of school will be over April 15th. Then we begin our last 6 week period with a June 2nd graduation date. I will be going to Switzerland April 20-27 with some of the students for a Physics Camp in Geneva. I am really looking forward to that. I haven’t been to Switzerland in 17 years – great to be going back for a visit.
Well, the snow has begun to melt, the frozen rivers are starting to flow, and it’s finally trying to look a little like spring.
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