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at akron sitting, sipping coffee:

yesterday we took our personality tests and i know everyone is dying to find out which box i fit into. initially, we all had to determine where we thought we fit. i thought i was right in the middle of the ex int scale leaning slightly more towards the extraverted side. i also thought that i was more intuitive then sensing. much more so. then i thought that i would be more thinking, much more thinking than feeling. finally, thought i was a perceiver. i wasn't really sure where i would fall completely but we did go through a thorough process in determining where we thought we would fall. it turned out that i was exactly right in the extravert/introvert part: slightly more extraverted, but not much. i'm also right in the middle of the intuitive/sensing part. exactly in the middle. it also said that i was more of a feeler than a thinker. this shocked me. i was pretty sure that i was much more analytical. finally, i was right in the middle of the perceiving/judging scale. it turns out that i'm pretty much in the middle of everything and that where i thought i would be and where i am is not at all the same. none of the descriptions were really accurate. it was pretty frustrating and i felt that the whole test was pretty hyped for nothing.

my time here has been really rewarding. there's another kid here who everyone confuses for me. i'm continually called will. (his name) and once, after i was given two tums by a lady named theresa, will was approached by her asking about his stomach. he was very confused and finally realized that she was looking for me.

what else. oh.

i went out to a vietnamese restaurant with jim amstutz. that's the closest that i've been to vietnam this whole time. it's pretty pathetiuc but that's not the point. we engaged in a lively discussion and ate with broad grins. finally, our fortune cookies came. konwing that they are not prophetic, i opened mine with much sarcasm. (i know what you're thinking dad, "jon, sarcastic?") it said "there is an immediate adventure in your future". i couldn't believe it. somehow god had entered my cookie and written my future on a piece of paper. i stammered and stuttered but finally showed jim. he was also impressed and i am now coinvinced that vietnam will be wonderful. what a wonderful dessert god we have.

i will leave you all now. do everything in love and remove fear from your decision making.