Meme: Tell Us About Your Year

[linaewen]

radbooks gave me the year

1992

I turned 35 in June of 1992, and celebrated 12 years of marriage in August of that year. Other than that, if I recall correctly,1992 was a fairly quiet year for me. Which was a good thing, because we were living overseas in Pakistan at the time, and the fact that nothing really significant happened over there (that I can recall) was definitely a good thing, lol!

During the course of 1992:

• We lived in HERE -- where we were among the staff teaching at a technical training and Bible school.
  
• We drove around the country in THIS -- only ours was older and not as nice as this. ;-) Some of the places we visited were villages where the students who boarded at the technical training school were from, many of which looked just like THIS. A lovely time was had by all when we went out on such visits, because even when the drive out was a bit of an adventure, we were always rewarded by wonderful hospitality that included chai and tasty curry and good conversation. ;-)
  
• Our son attended boarding school for part of that year, finishing 3rd grade and starting 4th grade.
  
• We spent the summer months of 1994 HERE in order to get out of the heat. Our summer place was pretty ramshackle -- an old building built during the British Raj -- but we got to look out upon scenes like THIS every day, so that made up for it!
• The Pakistan Cricket team led by Imran Khan won the World Cup Championship.  We still don't quite understand how the game of cricket works, but we do know this -- it was a very big deal that year to win the World Cup, even bigger than the Super Bowl is to Americans, lol!
  
• In December of that year, after the usual rigamarole and red tape runaround getting our passports renewed in a foreign country and getting reentry visas granted and stamped in, we returned to the States in time for Christmas, for a six month stay before going back overseas.

A few interesting things happened in the US during that year, which we heard about on the radio:

• I think there were elections happening.  ;-)  Bill Clinton eventually was elected president that year, defeating George Bush the elder and Ross Perot.  We voted by absentee ballot, as I recall.
• In Wisconsin news, a thing happened in the fall of 1992 that came to be quite significant to all of us Cheeseheads -- Brett Favre was traded to the Green Bay Packers, and began his long exciting career as a starting quarterback with my favorite team.  Here's some trivia for you -- did you know that Brett Favre's first pass as a Green Bay Packer was a completion to himself?  :-D

That's all I can think of for the year of 1992!

If you would like to do this meme, let me know and I'll give you a year.  Feel free to comment on my year, even if you don't want to do the meme yourself!

Comments

[siradaono.livejournal.com]

Howdy,
I watched an interview with Imran Khan just this morning on BBC America.
I hope he and his Party get a larger voice in Paky Politics. He seemed very Democratic minded and has a love for his country.

Fun reading your blog today.

Keep warm
Keep Flying

[lin4gondor.livejournal.com]

Imran Khan seems to be a decent fellow. He's really made a go of politics, and has hung in there pretty well in spite of everything. It would be interesting to see what he might be able to do if his party could get more "clout."

Finally got the DH to watch Serenity, yay! He really, really liked it!

[siradaono.livejournal.com]

"Finally got the DH to watch Serenity, yay! He really, really liked it! "


SWOON........THUD!

[estellye.livejournal.com]

That is the coolest idea for a MeMe. I liked hearing about just one year in your past. It's amazing. It doesn't seem that long ago to me, but your adult son was a child. mindboggling.

You can toss me a year if you like. I probably won't be able to do anything with it until Sunday, though. I have to work tomorrow. bleh. It sort of cut short my postponed birthday plans, but if I don't work I think Cindy will die of stress and that would be worse than a shortened delayed birthday celebration.

[lin4gondor.livejournal.com]

Okay, how about 1988?

[radbooks.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a very interesting year you had! What an adventure you must have had living in Pakistan, living in other countries is such an eye-opening experience.

[meneleth.livejournal.com]

That was interesting. In 1992 we were in North Dakota and Meg turned one year old. I don't remember anything big off the top of my head.

Go ahead and give me a year - I'll see what I can think of for it.


PS - Check out my latest entry for some news I think you'll like!

[lin4gondor.livejournal.com]

How does 1998 sound for you?