And the crisis continues...

We just finished watching the mid-day news.  It was intersting.  The news from La Paz and Cochabamba was not good.  Thousands of people in the streets protesting...blockades everywhere, including the main highways into the city...tires burning...people fighting with police...all the usual stuff that happens when Bolivians get annoyed.  In Oruro they even set off pieces of dynamite in the city centre. As as side note, I was once...

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La Jornada...the Video!

Our story...the video. ...

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Bolivia in crisis...again...

UPDATE BELOW  Let’s see...Bolivia has been crisis free for what? Like six months? So I guess it seems we were due. Yesterday morning...the day after Christmas, keep in mind...our President announced that the government would be eliminating the fuel subsidy it’s been paying since, well...basically forever. When would they be doing away with the subsidy, you ask? Monday morning. That would be today. As of this morning gasoline and diesel prices...

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A Christmas recap....

When I was a kid, Christmas was an easy holiday. All I had to do was sit there, try not to tell anyone what they were getting for Christmas (I usually only knew like, two gifts and most years I made a deal with one of my brothers to tell them what they were getting if they told me what I was getting. So...let’s just call that even)...and eat a lot of junk food. Oh...and stay in bed until the big hand was on the twelve and the little hand was on the...

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It's Christmas!

Well...two days before Christmas and I'm finally posting pictures of our decorations.  In my defense, it's been a busy week and I didn't have internet for most of it.  AND I have like twenty people to buy gifts for.  Oh yea...and two Christmas suppers to cook.  Ten kilos of pork for the 24th and two turkeys for the 25th... Darn good excuses if I say so myself.  And I did... Tonight Maribel and I, along with Ruddy and Andres...

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Grasshoppers vs. Ants

You know that story about the grasshopper with a hole in the roof of his house?  And when it's sunny he goes out and parties while the ants fix their roofs?  And then when it rains he's all annoyed 'cause his house is flooding and no one wants to help him fix the roof? I'm not totally sure on the details of that story...it's been awhile...but my point is, I think I'm the grasshopper.  I'm sure anyone who knows me is laughing right now and saying, "You think you're the grasshopper?!" I was just sitting here thinking that I really...

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Grad pictures...

We're still working on the Christmas decorations, so those pictures will have to wait.  Yes, yes...I know...it's only ten days until Christmas.  But it's not our fault...the decorations keep falling down.  Everything here is cement, so we've been trying to tape things to the walls. It's cooler than that just sounded...trust me. At any rate, the tape won't hold and every morning everything's on the ground.  We're working...

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And life goes on...

Well...it's no surprise to me or anyone else probably, that there are good moments in ministry...and there are bad ones.  There are times when you trust someone to do the right thing....and then you find out they didn't.  It's not the end of the world, but it's still disappointing none the less.  A friend had the chance to do something well and stand up for what he believes in.  But he stumbled and made a bad choice.  Tomorrow we'll pick up the pieces and life will go on.  But it's a sad night for me.  Please...

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My evening...

It's been an eventful couple of days.  Americo and Cocoliso (Jose Manuel) both graduated from high school last night.  It was a nice grad.  My Facebook profile status states it best... "The invitation said 6 PM.  We got there at 7:30.  It started at 9.  Supper was at 11.  I got home, after driving people to their houses, at 3.  Another grad bites the dust!" I'll post some more pictures and a bit more of...

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What the guys think Canada looks like...

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Painting and Christmas decorations...

We'll start with the painting pictures... This is what it looked like before we started. I tried a few different test colours before I decided which one I liked. Moving right along... I left to buy more paint and this is what I came home to... Roberto claims no one told him we weren't going topaint the ceiling too... Yimy standing on the ledge OUTSIDE the house and painting the OUTSIDE wall because "...that's a part of the house too..."I guess...

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