Feliz Navidad!

Christmas morning dawned hot and sunny in Santa Cruz!  A little different that what we experienced here in Saskatchewan.  I have to admit that I enjoyed having snow for Christmas.  It's the one thing I miss.  And it was pretty warm out (for Saskatchewan) so that was fun too. But Christmas in Bolivia seemed fun as well.  I didn't get to enjoy it with the guys this year, but we did Skype and I went around the house with my...

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Merry Christmas from Bolivia!

Maribel and Roberto sent me some pictures of decorating the house for Christmas.  Roberto's pictures were accompanied by the message, "We don't remember where everything goes!"  =)  He also wrote, "When are you buying pizza?"  I usually have to bribe the guys with pizza... But they did a good job!  Getting everything out of storage and organized.     Putting greenery and lights up around the doors.     Yimy...

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It's a new semester!

Hi Everyone! Even though it's summer (sort of) in Canada, in Bolivia it's the start of a new semester!  Which means in August we have to pay for tuition for nine of the guys.  As you can imagine, it's always a bit of a challenge to come up with the money all at one time.  If you'd like to help out, you can click on the link to the right of this post called "To Donate".  Or you can contact International Teams directly at 1-800-465-7601 and they'd be happy to help you. Thanks everyone!  I promise to get some pictures...

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Life.

My friend Corina sent out an update letter the other day and she shared a story about her son, Keiden.  She wrote how he usually has a nap in her office during the afternoon on a little mattress in the corner.  She props the door open so he can leave when he wakes up.  The other day she heard him start to scream in fear, "MOMMY!!"  So she ran to her office to find out what was wrong.  Tears overflowing, he said, “I couldn’t open (snif, snif) the door."  "But, sweetheart!!! I was right here!!!  All you had to...

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Huh...

I still have a blog... Who kn...

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A random conversation...

Larry was at my house for breakfast on Monday.  We do a discipleship thing every week.  After we were done, we were just kind of shooting the breeze.  He was wearing shorts and I noticed a scar on his leg behind his knee so I asked him how he got it.  He said that he got tangled up in some barbed wire when he was a kid and instead of trying to get out slowly, he just ripped it loose and gave himself a pretty good scar. Then he pointed to a scar on his other leg and said that he got that one when a monkey bit him.  I...

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"Bolivia: Treasures Within"

As some of you know, my friend Jacqueline was down here filming a travel show about Bolivia this past year.  I had a ton of fun driving her around and being the entertainment while she did her filming. Well...okay...she was pretty entertaining all by herself.  I think we may have egged each other on a little. If you want a little better idea of what Bolivia is like and where I live, take a look at the 90 sec trailer she posted. ...

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Taxi cab confessions...

Yimy had the truck today helping someone, so I was briefly forced to take a taxi.  Public transportation never ceases to amuse and entertain me.  When I'm in it.  When I'm following it in my truck it makes me want to ram it and drive over it. Anyhow...here's my conversation with my driver. Driver: "That's our casino."  (as we drive past a casino that's been closed for a couple of years)  "It's closed." Then he says with disgust..."Evo." Evo is our president of whom many (most) lowlanders are not a fan of.  He's...

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Why won't it stop raining?!

For those of you who aren't on Facebook...let me recap briefly... I wanted to do something a bit different with this class from SCS, so Tuesday we took the group up into the jungle to our favourite waterfalls.  Yimy and I checked the road out the day before and it was fine...nice and dry and no major issues.  We had a fun (if a little rough) trip in and then the kids had the chance to enjoy one of the prettiest places I know. ...

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My Little Shoeshiner Family...

Last year I wrote a little about this family and how I know them.  I haven't seen them in awhile, but last week as I drove past the Cristo statue and stopped at the traffic light, Christian came running out from the sidewalk waving his list of school supplies.  I have no idea how many days he'd been there watching for me, but I guess he knew I'd drive past eventually. You should read the above link, but just in case you don't, Christian...

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