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      Jay Swanson is working as the copywriter/editor for Mercy Ships' Swiss Creative Pool from Paris, France. The Africa Mercy is Mercy Ships’ flag hospital ship, dedicated to alleviating the suffering of Africa’s poor by providing medical aid and long-term preventative measures.

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      Paris, France

Getting Ready to Sail

Tweet It looks like I’ll have to do another 2-week 1 photo/day post next week since I’m falling behind again. I’m running into all sorts of issues with my phone right now so uploading photos got difficult today. And my kindle got stolen this week (allegedly) so it’s gotten a bit rough. That and the [...]

One Photo Per Day – Round 4 and 5

Tweet Running a week late on this so we’ll just throw them all together! If you ever get curious you can always see them (and often the runner-ups) posted each day on Twitter. Day 22 – 1/5/2011 Aaron setting up to play Settlers of Catan with Claire, a staple as far as games go in [...]

Life Caught Up to Me

Tweet Not that this is unexpected, but it has. I’ll get a real blog post up soon, get caught up with the photos, etc. Until then just know I’m alive and working a lot. We had a big thank you event for our partners and friends here in South Africa yesterday, it was a ton [...]

One Photo per Day – Round 3

Tweet So this has been an eventful week as well, though sometimes I forget to take a photo until it’s almost too late. Usually this happens when something spectacularly interesting happens, and instead you get a photo of an ID card or a brick. Thankfully there are no bricks this week. Hopefully you still find [...]

Oh yeah

Tweet Happy New Year!

Lessons Learned From Driving in South Africa

Tweet After a week of driving on the left side of the road, from the right side of the car (what I once considered the passenger’s side), not to mention along a rather large amount of rural highway, I’ve learned a few valuable lessons. First off, don’t assume you can drive on the shoulder. In [...]