Jason Shim

Photo Credit: Victor Nuno

For the last month, my friends Erika and Jared have been walking the 800 km Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain. In English, it is known as the Way of St. James and it is a centuries old pilgrimage route. Erika and Jared are both individuals with big hearts and they are using this opportunity to raise money for War Child Canada, a charity dedicated to providing urgently needed humanitarian assistance to war-affected children around the world. Jared is certainly no stranger to long distance treks as he cycled coast-to-coast across Canada a couple of years ago to raise funds for the World Wildlife Foundation.

They have been sending out detailed updates via their Facebook Group during their journey and they are currently about 70 km from Santiago.

You can make a donation here and join their Facebook group here.

Over the Christmas holidays, I picked up a guitar and decided to try my hand at learning how to play it. My skills are still pretty basic, but my sister has been an enthusiastic supporter, nudging me to learn more music so she can sing along. This past weekend, Cliff brought over his ukulele and we decided to try a cover of Ingrid Michaelson’s The Way I Am. I’m not really playing any chords, just plucking one string at any given time, but I’m working on it. The sound is pretty low, so you’ll have to turn up the volume.