Spring Fever.

One of my favorite times of the year is the spring season - not just for the weather, but also for the silent renewal of most every living thing. Add to that the bi-annual occurrence of the General Conference of the LDS church every spring and fall, and it becomes even better!

For the first time in my life, I was able to attend General Conference at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City - which was an experience to behold! I was glad to be able to attend there - and at the same time is was a different experience than the one that I had envisioned. I suppose I expected that everyone there would be paying close attention to what was said, but I was surprised to find that many people appeared to be only half-interested in what was said, and the other half of them was engaged in conversations with their neighbor, and sending text messages. This while people outside who had traveled hundreds and even thousands of miles would have eagerly paid wrapt attention to the proceedings, but didn't have a ticket to enter. I suppose I shouldn't have let the irony distract me - it just seemed un-necessarily unfair.

Aside from that this spring looks to be a good one! That's one thing that I've had as a first in Utah this year, watching the change of seasons. Arizona and Texas had a quasi-winter season - and Nicaragua was a perennial summer with wet and dry being the only tangible variables. Utah, on the other hand, has a bit of everything, including flowering trees, which I don't recall seeing much in Nicaragua. I've been here for a year now, and I'm getting used to the idea of having hot and cold at different times of the year, all over again!

I've been going to school for over a year straight now, and I think that I'm doing myself a favor by taking a break from the intellectually taxing classes, and carving time out for social livelihood, and to work and save up some money. As I'm looking for work here, I'm trying to find somewhere that I can learn something practical and useful, not just something that is a proprietary singularity - like Verizon's filing system, or UPS's pre-load system for packages... something that will actually be a useful life-skill! If I can find something involved with real estate or banking, so much the better!

I'll add more information as I get it, but I think it's time for me to wrap this up.

Until next time,

A. M. Taylor