New Listeners

So shortly I will have a bunch of new listeners checking in on me as I go through my summer in Colorado and I figured I should give you a bit of background into who Alan is and what excites him. That picture makes me look really angry, but I assure you that I am more fun than that.

I just finished my Junior year at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. There I study Mechanical Engineering and am very involved with Illini Life Christian Fellowship (hence the internship).

My interests include sports, video games, learning, talking to people, deep discussion, weight lifting, riding my bike, hiking, and just being ridiculous at times. I love the Green Bay Packers and Illini sports. I'm also a Cubs fan. Video games wise, I have myself a Nintendo Wii, which kicks some seri0us booty.

I love Colorado. It is a gorgeous state and I love the mountains. It really is the perfect place for me this summer.

I grew up in Clinton, Illinois. It's a small town, but it was a fun place to grow up and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

My family consists of a dad, mom, and a younger sister. She just graduated high school and is well on her way to being awesome. My parents have been married for what will be 23 years in June. We go to church at St. John The Baptist Parish in Clinton on a weekly basis.

My Catholic background, along with my current evangelical involvement, has allowed me to see a richness of Christianity from different angles than many people have been afforded. I love discussing doctrine and the church itself in general, even if I don't know what I'm talking about. I really like to listen those times and have people tell me how they feel about something.

Let me know what you think as I write through these coming months. Leave comments. This is a great forum to have discussions. Let me know what you wanna hear about. I'll try to give you more of that. Ask me how things go. I'll tell you.

I leave in a week from tomorrow. Chuck (a fellow U of I student headed to LT) and I will be leaving and driving towards Estes Park. This week I am calling people and following up letters for support raising. I'll also be packing, and cleaning up for my sister's graduation party. All of this will be at home. I'm excited to catch up with my family throughout the process.

More soon...

Alan