Jamie Fehr

This will be quick. Some weeks ago I went and I tried to put some money on my phone. Everything appeared to work and I left with a receipt and waited for some money to actually show up in my phones account. A few days later I still didn’t see the credit (it never takes [...]

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It’s hot. We’ve arrived at the point in the summer where the outside ambient air temperature exceeds my core body temperature and I’m just left wishing that my shower was capable of producing colder water. All this is to say that I really don’t feel like doing anything these days.
That said, I have several websites, [...]

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This was too wild an experience to not be publicly documented. My pilgrimage to Essaouira, Morocco for the Gnaoua Festival (Music Sample) began halfway through my fifth tour of Morocco in Rabat and while I had bothered to make a few plans about how things were going to happen, there was nothing very concrete. So it [...]

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Now finding myself in the midst of my fifth tour (that’s right, five) of the popular North African country I really feel like there should be something in the archives of this site sharing with the masses a little of what I’ve learned about life in this sometimes difficult but always interesting, incredibly diverse country.
Getting [...]

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Being a missionary is neither easy nor comfortable and requires a tremendous amount of emotional stamina. A lot of people have shared with me their envy of the adventures that I’ve been on not realizing the crushing loneliness of forging a new life in a foreign country.
It’s uncomfortable and difficult in that your life is not your [...]

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Growing up you probably heard your parents saying you should eat your vegetables because there are some starving orphan kids from Africa who would probably die to have them. Well, these last few days a group of eight North African orphans and there caretakers have been staying in the house with me and this morning [...]

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I gotz tagged in some blog meme thing, almost a year ago and I would feel bad about not completing the requirements set for me sooner, but Kirsten has also not bothered to even touch the topic. So there.
The Meme Rules
I’m supposed to post rulz, but I just don’t feel like it. Refer to aforementioned [...]

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الوتموبيل - Automobile
كلينيك - Clinic
مسترفين - Mstsharfin, meaning “Pleasure to meet you”.
محمد - Mohammed
شويا - Swiya, meaning “A little”
واخا - Waha, meaning “OK” or “agreed”
بزّاف - Bezzaf, meaning “A lot”
جمي - my name, as best as I can figure
The first four days of class have been fun and I looking forward to some more learning.

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A year ago good friday I was in Cordoba, Spain checking out the Mezquita. It might as well have been lifetime ago. A lot has happened since then and I am really grateful for this online record that I have from which I can remember the twists and turns that life has given me.
Normally, I [...]

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I just wanted to say that my home town, La Crete, just got it’s very first set of traffic lights this week. I anticipate that there are a lot of people who won’t know what to do and that they may cause more accidents than they’ll prevent.

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