Thursday, February 15, 2007

what is outside your window?

21691585thm Take a look at what you can see outside of a language school over in Mexico.  The Cottrill Family, missionaries who live in Cuernavaca, Mexico, share with us what you can see thru their windows! 

And, another missionary-family-in-training also show us what they can see outside their window in Ontario, Canada. Brrrr!!

Anyone else out there wanna show the online world what the view is like outside the windows that make up "your world"? 

If you do please leave a comment here on my blog or over here at this missionary blog watch (if you are a missionary), so I we can go enjoy your view with you.

Feb 15, 2007 8:13:00 AM | bloginess

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