What’s up People:
Back with a new post. Just a few things to catch you up on. First of all, as of July 22, it marks my one year anniversary of leaving home and being here in New Windsor, Maryland, which includes orientation. I will do a one year review of my project on August 10, that marks my project one year anniversary which is more important to me. However, one year marks in either case is special. I feel really proud of myself that I was able to be away from home a year without any major issues. With the grace of God, I want to extend that accomplishment for the next few years.
Well work had been interesting this past week. Francie was on vacation and I ran the IS department with a little help from Wolfgang. I thought this week went really well. I had a few things on my list that I wanted to get done. Thankfully I was able to complete everything that I wanted to. The most interesting thing about this week happened on early Tuesday when we had an email issue. We couldn’t send email outside of our email servers but we were able to retrieve them. I contacted Mark, the overall IS director of the General Board and we worked on trying to get this issue resolved. He had to restart the servers and the problem was fixed the end of Wednesday. During that time a few people came up to me asking about the issue, and I told them we were working on it. Also, during this week, I was able to add a couple more users to the new server. Francie and I are close to finishing up all users and I believe the next step will be merging to Microsoft Outlook from Novell GroupWise. Another thing I did this week was continue to organize our computer room. I hope to finish that soon. That has been an exciting week in IS.
Just to give you an update about my website that I have been working on: its coming along nicely, but slowing. I’ve been putting some time trying to get the site to be just right and I feel comfortable about each and every page. I will have it for you all very soon to checkout.
Last but not least, I want to give a shot out to BVS Unit 275. Since we are all about to finish up the year, I wanted to take this time and show some “Amor” (love) to everyone in the unit. Some of us already finished up. Some of us are about to finish up. Some of us are staying in longer. Everyone is going on a different journey. It was an honor to ride with them at orientation as well as the retreat. I look forward to staying in touch with each of them. Steve, Simon, Willem, Ben (congrats on engagement to your girl), and Leo: good luck in the future back in Germany. Sandy, hope everything is great and I hope your project went well. Rianna and Danielle (the two most awesome women I know): good luck in Law school and I look forward hearing the great things you will accomplish. Becca C (another awesome person), continue to be the great person you are and good luck in your future. Thomas, the person I like to debate most with, I look forward to debating with you future. Continue doing what you do. Tom, I know you will still be in your second project when the first year of BVS will end, but continue to strive to do what you do in Elkton, MD. It would be nice to visit and see how you living over there. Solomon, another person that will continue to be in BVS as we finish up, hope everything is going great in the Netherlands. Bekah, my favorite person in Elgin, I look forward to hanging out with you again. Maybe you might head back to New Windsor for a visit. Last but and definitely not least, Jillian, another unit member serving outside the states (El Salvador), one of my best friends in the unit. Keep up the good work over there in place I know nothing about. Since I am going to be here in New Windsor for a while, I look forward to possibly hanging out with you when you get back. I want to personally thank the BVS staff for being apart of our process: Dan (coolest guy in the world); Hannah (the comic character debater); Beth (another Californian), Callie, retreat was awesome, and look forward to seeing you during the fall BVS orientation); and Genelle, you are the one that had my back the most and are the coolest friend. Anyway, you guys are all awesome and I look forward to keeping in touch with you all.
Peace!
JCI
BVS Unit 275
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