Mandatory fun day.

Yesterday was the YWAM San Diego/ Baja fun day. Basically, all the people at the Ensenada and Tijuana bases and at the San Diego office got together for a "family reunion" type of thing. We all drove to a resort near to Ensenada and then spent the day playing at the beach. We had a volley ball tournament in which, my team kind of sucked; but we did have a good time playing so...

Someone brought a jet ski and gave people rides on it and on the tube. I went on the jet ski with Montse. She is staff here and has super long hair. She is really sweet. I had never ridden on a jet ski before so I enjoyed the ride immensely.

We just lounged around, splashed in the water, built sand castles and socialized with other YWAMers.

The thing that really topped the day off for me was the jelly fish. It was dead when it floated up to the shore but I have never seen a medusa before so it was pretty cool. The medusa was a really dark red and was apparently quite large for a jellyfish. It really amazes me that something that basically looks like a molded jello salad could actually be alive. I am kind of sorry that this one was dead but I suppose it had to happen sometime and this way, I got to see it.

The mandatory fun day was really fun; the only low point was that I failed to apply sunscreen as frequently as I should have. Consequentially, I am now very red on my back, shoulders and arms. Those, I can handle. What is causing me the most pain is my legs. My legs rarely see the light of day so being exposed to the sun for an extended amount of time caused them to become an extremely bright red. The only time it really hurts is if I move them so I am doing a lot of lounging today. I suppose it could have been worse...

That is all I have to tell you about yesterday. Tonight I will tell you about today.
Adiós por ahora. Abi

yeah...

Hey all! Sorry my posts have been inconsistent. I have been rather busy/tired/unable to get internet/tired/lazy... Nothing too remarkable has been happening though so you are not really missing anything.

We have two teams here and they are both building houses and they are both pretty cool. Because I was assigned to a team last time, I got to stay back this time so someone else could have a chance.

Two days later...

Hi! I am going to finish this post now. I don't remember why I didn't finish this, I probably fell asleep. I am going to finish it now though.

Lately, I haven't been doing much of anything. Because I wasn't assigned to a team and because there haven't been any projects for me to do, I have been doing alot of lounging about and facebooking.

The teams finished their houses yesterday. Today, the Florida team is doing some ministry with Pastor Felipe's church and then after lunch they are going to the red light district (basically the part of town where upstanding people avoid like the plague: lots of prostitution, drugs and bars and stuff like that) to do prayer walking and ministering to the people there. The Oregon team is going to the church they visited on Sunday and then after lunch, they are going to be going out to La Boufadora. (The FL team went on Sunday afternoon)

Then tonight is the closing rally. Tomorrow morning, we say good bye and then relax for a few days. I don't know what else to write except to tell you about the birds that are building a nest in the overhang above my window. There is like 5 birds and they have been flying in and out of the overhang all morning. I should probably tell someone about it so that they can get the nest out before it is too far built.
Who knows...

I'm gonna go now. Bye Abi.


Here is a random picture of a flower for your enjoyment.

OH!!!!! I just remembered that I forgot to tell you about Meadow. Meadow joined us as more MA staff. She has been here before so she knows how things go.
Meadow: aged 16, from somewhere in Canada, she seems kind of shyish around some people(namely me) but seems very sweet.

uhhhhhhh..............

hi all. it has been a while. i havent written lately because the internet around here is goofy and because i have been too tired, mostly because i have been tired. but i am writing now. i am still tired though and that is why i am not bothering to capitalize or use proper punctuation. oh well.

anyways, since i last wrote, two new teams have showed up. one from winter park florida and the other from portland oregon. the portland team has ten people, six students and four leaders. the florida team has like 25 people, 7 leaders and the rest students. both of the teams are pretty great.

i am a co-dorm mommy (with Beth) for one of the rooms of florida girls. in my room is Donna, the leader, Molly, my friend from last summer, Annie, Courtney, Claire and Amy. they are a great bunch of girls, very giggly and goofy, but i enjoy being their dorm mommy. basically the role of dorm mommy is to go in each night and make sure they have everything they need, talk with them for a bit and then tuck them in for the night. it is a blast.

yesterday, we all went to pastor felipe's church. (not the same felipe we met last summer-for those of you who know about our trip last summer) when we got there we organized ourselves into teams and went about the neighborhood and invited kids to come and then had a little shindig for them. there was a bouncey house, futbol, lemonade and just playing. we played for a bit then the teams did the dances we taught them for the kids and the dramas. then we played some more and then we packed up and left. it was really fun though. i was able to give out some of the yard dolls i had. i forgot my camera so i dont have any pictures but i will try to get some pictures from someone else.

there is other stuff that i did in these past two days but that was mainly washing the passion play costumes and working in the cafe so i will spare you the boring details. I am going to go get caught up on facebook now(temperamental internet connection). bye. abi