A Bit About Ben

We have decided that each of us write a little bit about ourselves so that those of you who don't know all of us have an idea of who everyone is. Since I wrote the first newsletter, I'll go first.

I'm Ben Herr, the tall one on the right without any hair if you're looking at our prayer card, or the one with long legs on the left if you're looking at our blog picture. My parents are James and Carol Herr and I have an older brother, Jonathan, and a younger sister Christyn. I'm 18 years old, and graduated from highschool this spring after being home schooled all my life. I attend Mountville Mennonite Church. My hobbies include sports; especially soccer, football, and church softball; playing music; hunting, I can tell many hunting stories, most of which are misses, mis-cues, or buck fever; imitating John Madden; trying new things; finding difficult ways of doing simple tasks; and doing anything and everything to make myself or someone else laugh.

Favorite books: The Oath, The Lord of the Rings, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Favorite sports teams: The Philadelphia Eagles, whoever is playing the Dallas Cowboys or New England Patriots (these teams are a very close second and are collectively doing very poorly this year), and the Baltimore Orioles.

Favorite Quote: "At the end of the day, whichever team has the most points is going to win the football game." -John Madden.

Second Favorite Quote: "The United States and Japan have been friends for over 150 years." -George W. Bush (apparently he forgot about a little something called World War II)

This bugs me: The birthday question, "So what does it feel like to be (insert age here)" because one day really doesn't make any difference.

Countries I've been to: Canada, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, HONG KONG, Nepal, India, Thailand, Singapore, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Italy, The Vatican, France, The United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Kenya.

Something difficult about living in Hong Kong: Putting aside the obvious things like language barrier and such, I'd have to say being 6'1". So far I've found plenty of things to bump my head on in a city built for shorter people.


















This me almost getting run over by a floor sweeper car while sleeping in Toronto airport