Im dreaming of a white Christmas :)

It was an amazing Christmas and New Year!!! I spent tons of quality time with my family and Rio, realized how much more fun your parents are when you aren't hating them for "holding you back" a.k.a you grow up, and ate some great home cooked and restaurant food.








We went to the circus!!! And even though it was all in Russian we had an amazing time. The costumes were great, the elephants was stinky, the clowns were silly, Rio was brave, and we had an amazing time and Rio got it all on tape :)


We suddenly became Museum aficionados. We looked at paintings and even became a part of the show.









Added to my list of things I never thought would happen is.... my mom and dad let me go clubbing while under their roof... they even gave me money... we made some friends and had a blast!!

Yossy Maria and Alejandra chillen on a girls day out :) good times

IM BACK!!!!! Its been almost a year, wow what a year, from the crazy internship in Maryland this summer to my wonderful internship at the hospital, the trips to Kings dominion with good friends and family, The wonderful time spent with my cousins and their cousins, the craziness of fall 05, working with the crazy people at LU Men's Basketball, new friends made old friends lost, it goes on and on. I cannot begin to document it all; in fact I should really learn how to put pictures on here so you can see for yourself. I've had a blast and also had some tough times. By far the hardest part has been no being done with school in December and having 1 credit left. I guess I should thank God and be grateful to him. The next post will be when I learn how to put pictures on here!!! hahaha till then my dear friends keep warm wherever you may be!!

Putting the face of propaganda and dishonesty on public relations

As is commonly known, Public relations is often seen as propaganda.Propaganda is the negative connotation for the work that most practitioners do of informing and relating to the public. At Liberty University young men and women are being encouraged to be honest, so that one day they will be able to get good jobs with reputable firms. What are we supposed to think when those who are supposed to serve as our role models are the very ones defaming the image.

Two former ad agency executives convictedAssociated Press
NEW YORK - Two former senior executives at the Ogilvy & Mather advertising agency were convicted on Tuesday of conspiring to overbill the government for a campaign warning children about the dangers of drugs.
A jury deliberated over the course of two days before reaching guilty verdicts against Thomas Early, 49, of Rockville Centre, and Shona Seifert, 44, of Southport, Conn., prosecutors said.
Each defendant faces up to five years in prison on multiple counts of fraud, false claims and false statements. Sentencing was set for May 16.
The fraud occurred after Ogilvy & Mather won a $684 million contract in 1998 to work on a national media campaign for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, a branch of the executive office of the U.S. president.
Prosecutors said the defendants persuaded hundreds of employees at the distinguished advertising agency to overbill the government by exaggerating their work on the project.
Defense lawyers said the defendants had no motive to cheat the federal government and committed no crimes in the advertising campaign.

What would you do if you were an employee?

While I appreciate the United States being speculative and suspecting, I will be very happy if one of my heroes, Secretary General Kofi Annan is proven to be the honorable, careful and intelligent man I have always known him to be.

For those of you who don’t know Kofi Annan is the Secretary-General of the United Nations. A national of Ghana who is fluent in English, French and several African languages, he was appointed on 17 December by the General Assembly to serve a term of office from 1 January 1997 through 31 December 2001.Prior to his appointment, Mr. Annan served for thirty years as an international public servant in the United Nations. He will have been the U.N secretary general for 10 years in
December. Mr. Annan served as Under-Secretary-General for Peace-keeping Operations, and for a year before that, as Assistant Secretary-General for Peace-keeping Operations. In these positions, he helped to formulate new approaches to the complex uncertainties of a post-cold-war world.

This great mind is now being asked to resign due to speculation on the U.N. oil-for-food program, which is under investigation for corruption and mismanagement. Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany and dozens of other countries have rallied to support beleaguered U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan after a U.S. senator called for his resignation - but the United States has stayed quiet. Three years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Annan is the target of escalating attacks in the United States.
The Minnesota Republican Sen. Norm Coleman who is leading one of five U.S. congressional investigations into the oil-for-food program, wrote in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal Annan should resign because "the most extensive fraud in the history of the U.N. occurred on his watch.” Outside the United States, there is no clamor for Annan's resignation, and the secretary-general has been receiving letters and phone calls of support.

I can only ask for prayer concerning the situation and that the truth be known.

Some of this information is aken fromt he washington post.com and other sources. To know more about his go to: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30649-2004Dec3.html?referrer=email

Shake the rim ( Missions in need of help)

The Pacific rim region is a very vast region that stretches from Japan to Australia.
Church planter evangelist Gerald Davis working with the International Mission Board
uses his media experience in Southeast Asia the worlds largest location of earthquakes to work to identify and promote the very diverse pacific rim to to southern baptists and other denominations. It has proven difficult because this is a high area of political problems, natural disasters and persecution where missionaries are not accepted and have even been thrown out of certain countries. The greatest problem is balancing the need for people to pray for these people and at the same time convince them to come and be missionaries in this place of great suffering. Currently the project struggles with identifiying itself and coming up with a logo and identity so that they can begin to promote this mission.
To learn more about the International Mission board visit: www.imb.org

Our very interactive world

Today we encounter a merging of the traditional form of evangelism and modern technology. Its about time that we catch up and I am proud that liberty is heading it up!

The "Internet Evangelism for the 21st Century" conference will be held at Liberty University Apiril 1-2, 2005. This conference expects to draw attendees from the 8,000 member residential student body as well as pastors and leaders from Central Virginia and beyond. LU's state of the art wireless campus is an ideal venue for IE-21st Century.

Please take a miniute and for more information visit http://ie-21stCentury.com and/or email Professor Daniel Henrich at mediastrategy@readmail.biz.

AIRLINE SERVICE!!!!

As I try to plan my trip home to Moscow, I have come across many obstacles including people who are unhappy with their jobs, instead of finding satisfation in helping other people solve their problems they create extra problems for them. The Delta airlines lady sent me on a ( i mean are you kidding me) I call back Delta and get the nicest man and PLEAD with him to SAVE me from this hole I am slowly digging. Only to find out that if I moved my flight from the 15th to the 14th my ticket drops by $500 dollars $500 dollars people! This means that now I can go SHOPPING!!! no not really there is this little thing called college that I am in whic sucks you DRY till u are grabbing dimes off the floor that fell out of a pinata so you can wash your clothes. Ahhhhh college life!!! If you are ever looking for a cheap ticket go to JUSTFARES.COM or call them, they are geat it's like a free travel agent.