On Thursday, a new cycle started and a new team came (only one this time, oh well, that means more personalized attention for them.)
This team is from northern California and they are all asian (they are ok with it and we all joke around with all of the asians about being asian). There is 6 girls and 6 guys with 2 girl leaders and 1 guy leader. All the kids seem to be very nice and well behaved. I think that by the end of this week, we might be able to bring them out of their shells a bit.
So far, there hasn't really been anything out of the ordinary with this team.
Hey, if you wouldn't mind, we could use your prayers. Alot of people have been feeling poorly. We don't know if it is just a bug or if it is something we ate but many of us have felt poorly at some point in the past few days. If you could just pray that we all get to feeling better and have more energy, I would appreciate it.
Quiero ir a dormir así que voy a hablar con usted más tarde. Abi
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
I love Ensenada!!!
So, yesterday, our teams left. After they left, all of the MA staff went and slept for a few hours. It was blissful. In the afternoon, a large group of us went down to the beach and hung out for a bit. It was quite fun until...
Around here, people do whatever they can to make money and alot of people become street vendors. Now, on the beach, there are men (and sometimes boys, women and girls, but mostly men) that walk around with wheelbarrows. These wheelbarrows have a board on top making it a flat cart. Then they load it up with their goods. Many sell different types of candies and these random wierd orangeish wheel shaped crunchy things. They prey on unsuspecting gringos(the term used to refer to anyone from the States, not to be taken offensively) and sell them their stuff.
Now, some of the guys (and a couple of girls) were playing American football down by the water(better ground down there) and Matt was running to catch the ball and he fell over a vendor's wheelbarrow. Some of the candies spilled on the ground. The guy got pretty upset and there was quite a crowd gathered by then. There was a lengthy discussion about who was at fault (it was the vendor because he had left his cart unattended in the middle of what was obviously a game of tackle football) and how much Matt needed to pay to make up for it(the vendor wanted $3500 pesos which was ridiculous, they settled on $25 which was more than fair). Matt paid $25 and the vendor gave him the bag with the candy that had spilled. We didn't really want to keep the candy so Matt gave it to a random group of Mexicans. The kids were pretty excited. Moral of this story: Nothing is ever boring with YWAM.
After supper(meat on skewers, asparagus :-P, and some other things that I am too tired to remember.), Giese (staff here, also lives here) took all of us to Thrifty for ice cream to thank us for doing such a great job so far. They were out of my usual: Mango Chabacano (mango apricot), sounds strange but it is ah-mazing, so I had a scoop of naranja (orange). It was pretty good but not as good.
After Thrifty, we all went back to base and discussed our various options for entertainment for that night and the next day(today). A bunch of us decided to go to the hot springs.
Around here, nothing is ever boring.
Three days later... after an extended time of internet failure and la pereza mucho...
We went to the hot springs. They are basically a grouping of various sized swimming pools fed by some source of water that has various temperatures. There was one that was pretty good sized and was super hot, one that was much smaller and the perfect temperature for a semi-relaxing evening and then there was a really big one that was "cold". There was also a few other smaller ones but I didn't go in them. There was a group of 11 of us. Eight of us were MA staff and the other three were Mission Builder staff. We had a grand old time swimming and relaxing and talking and joking.
We got there at around 10 at night(left the base at 9, stopped at Wal-Mart for some snacks and then drove there), so we swam and frolicked until I think 1 or 2 and then we all camped out in and on our van. The next morning, we all woke up and went for a walk. We walked up the stream that feeds the hot springs. It was quite an adventure. Everybody fell down at least once, some fell more. It was really fun.
After we got back to the van, some people changed and went swimming again. I didn't because my foot and butt were hurting (jumped on a rock too hard and fell on a different rock), so I stayed and cleaned up a bit (because the others seem to be incapable of putting things in the garbage can (; jk).
At about 12 or so, we all decided that it was time to go back to base so we packed up and went back. When we got back, most of us went and slept for a few hours.
That was pretty much the highlight of my break. So, I am going to end this post and make a new one about our new team. Abi
Around here, people do whatever they can to make money and alot of people become street vendors. Now, on the beach, there are men (and sometimes boys, women and girls, but mostly men) that walk around with wheelbarrows. These wheelbarrows have a board on top making it a flat cart. Then they load it up with their goods. Many sell different types of candies and these random wierd orangeish wheel shaped crunchy things. They prey on unsuspecting gringos(the term used to refer to anyone from the States, not to be taken offensively) and sell them their stuff.
Now, some of the guys (and a couple of girls) were playing American football down by the water(better ground down there) and Matt was running to catch the ball and he fell over a vendor's wheelbarrow. Some of the candies spilled on the ground. The guy got pretty upset and there was quite a crowd gathered by then. There was a lengthy discussion about who was at fault (it was the vendor because he had left his cart unattended in the middle of what was obviously a game of tackle football) and how much Matt needed to pay to make up for it(the vendor wanted $3500 pesos which was ridiculous, they settled on $25 which was more than fair). Matt paid $25 and the vendor gave him the bag with the candy that had spilled. We didn't really want to keep the candy so Matt gave it to a random group of Mexicans. The kids were pretty excited. Moral of this story: Nothing is ever boring with YWAM.
After supper(meat on skewers, asparagus :-P, and some other things that I am too tired to remember.), Giese (staff here, also lives here) took all of us to Thrifty for ice cream to thank us for doing such a great job so far. They were out of my usual: Mango Chabacano (mango apricot), sounds strange but it is ah-mazing, so I had a scoop of naranja (orange). It was pretty good but not as good.
After Thrifty, we all went back to base and discussed our various options for entertainment for that night and the next day(today). A bunch of us decided to go to the hot springs.
Around here, nothing is ever boring.
Three days later... after an extended time of internet failure and la pereza mucho...
We went to the hot springs. They are basically a grouping of various sized swimming pools fed by some source of water that has various temperatures. There was one that was pretty good sized and was super hot, one that was much smaller and the perfect temperature for a semi-relaxing evening and then there was a really big one that was "cold". There was also a few other smaller ones but I didn't go in them. There was a group of 11 of us. Eight of us were MA staff and the other three were Mission Builder staff. We had a grand old time swimming and relaxing and talking and joking.
We got there at around 10 at night(left the base at 9, stopped at Wal-Mart for some snacks and then drove there), so we swam and frolicked until I think 1 or 2 and then we all camped out in and on our van. The next morning, we all woke up and went for a walk. We walked up the stream that feeds the hot springs. It was quite an adventure. Everybody fell down at least once, some fell more. It was really fun.
After we got back to the van, some people changed and went swimming again. I didn't because my foot and butt were hurting (jumped on a rock too hard and fell on a different rock), so I stayed and cleaned up a bit (because the others seem to be incapable of putting things in the garbage can (; jk).
At about 12 or so, we all decided that it was time to go back to base so we packed up and went back. When we got back, most of us went and slept for a few hours.
That was pretty much the highlight of my break. So, I am going to end this post and make a new one about our new team. Abi
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