Mike Foley's blog
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Barbed wire jump
In a recent meeting (actually a Latter-day Saints testimony meeting) a young lady in our church shared a story of faith that involved praying for her car . . . which reminded me of two incidents where we did something similar years ago in Samoa:
China journal: Shanghai’d!
[Blog and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published July 17, 2009] Shanghai, 2006, with the Yellow River and Bund in the foreground In July 2006 a small group of BYU–Hawaii students, professors and family, and I participated in the China Study Abroad program that took us to Shanghai for four weeks of intensive Mandarin and […]
Rainy Rushmore!
Mt. Rushmore and surrounding region (if you don’t see a video window above, please go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWp2Q05v77E) Almost every time I saw pictures or movies of Mt. Rushmore in the past, its grand-scale patriotism instilled in me a desire to see it in person . . . so, even though it made for several long […]
Cultural serendipity
I experienced a brief moment of cultural serendipity when a number of Fijian and Tongan women performed a Fijian coming-of-age ceremony for several young women before they performed in nearby Kahuku High’s “May Night” program. The young women came on stage wrapped in traditional masi or bark cloth, which their older relatives unwrapped, before the […]