I'm taking a trip with Youth With a Mission (YWAM) starting on Sept. 1 and I won't be back till March 31st, 2008. I"m taking a year off of school to do this! The specific discipleship training school that I will be attending is a photography school. The first month will be intensive photography training, the next three months will be the discipleship training portion, and the last 3 months will be the outreach phase. I will be headed off to Thailand on January 6th. We will be living in the northern region of Chiang Mai doing a lot of youth ministry with the university students, working in a coffee shop, heading into the jungles for a couple weeks to work with some of the tribes, and then spending two weeks in Bangkok working with some missionaries there. I'm excited! :) If you'd like to send me mail, my address in Herrnhut, Germany will be: Katie Akamine JMEM/DTS Untere Dorfstr. 56 02747 Herrnhut/Ruppersdorf Germany I love snail mail...and frankly....my mailbox has been bare