Okay, funny...I happened to have some time on my hands this morning and so I was checking my e-mail. There was an e-mail waiting from my college with a link to our school's magazine, so I was putzing around looking at it. Low and behold, tucked way at the end was a link called "Briercrest grad helping Bolivian street kids become responsible adults".
I was like, "Well...that kind of sounds like me. How many of us can there be in Bolivia?"
So I checked it out and low and behold it was me! The reporter interviewed...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Yimy's (one of the guys who lives here at the house) mom lives in Argentina and his dad works way off somewhere in the jungle (they're separated). But the family has a house an hour or so outside of Santa Cruz (where Yimy grew up). His two younger brothers live there and his mom comes home to visit every month or so.
This trip she bought the family their first fridge! So Yimy and I hauled it out there on Saturday. ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Most of you probably remember when this happened (and a bit more here)...even though it was way back in May of 2011. Seems like a long time ago doesn't it? And it is. Certainly long enough for my truck to be fixed and sold long ago.
Except it isn't.
Almost a year later, I'm still fighting with my insurance company to get everything done. The details are too long and frustrating to bother getting into here, but suffice it to say that I finally lost it today. After all the delays and lies about when the truck would...
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Back in 2007 when I was still working at the boys’ home, I used to come into the city and make use of different coffee shops’ free WIFI. I got to know a family of brothers who were all shoe shiners in the area. The youngest was probably two and the oldest ten or eleven. You can read about the first time I met them here.
Over the years I’ve stayed friends with them. I run into them every once in a while and we stop and chat. ...
Saturday, March 10, 2012
After multiple tries, this video is finally uploaded. I may have built it up a bit too much by saying it was the coolest video ever...maybe it's not, but I'm sure you'll agree that it's pretty darn amazing none the less.
I'll let you watch now and judge for yourself. Watch the video before you read anymore...
A couple of things that I love...
- I said in the video that Mary understood what was going on. She didn't. She said later that she thought Uncle Norman was buying her a new door for her house. ...
Friday, March 9, 2012
"Oye" is our catch all word in Spanish for a variety of things. In this context in means...
"Oops, I just forgot a 7 AM doctor's appointment for a 82 year old gentleman we're helping....the 14 minute video I'm uploading seems to be stuck at 21% after 25 hours of uploading and says that there's 3256 minutes to go....the storm that swept through Santa Cruz last night did a number on my room (I wasn't home) and literally flooded the entire floor of my beadroom and soaked everything and now my room smells like a musty basement....my bank card...
Friday, March 2, 2012
I've started this post probably three times and then deleted it and started over. It's tough to know what to say. In a lot of ways things are improving...and that's encouraging. But we're still dealing with the consequences of the past few months and that can be difficult. The good thing is, I (and Maribel as well) feel God's peace in the midst of all of this. So that helps. =)
I guess I have my moments though. I texted my friend the other night and asked her if she ever wished she didn't care...
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