Oct.25 - 27

Tuesday was good, went to class, had a free afternoon that was super chill and i did barley anything. kinda fun to have those days once in a while. in the evening we had class and than just hung out with everyone and what not. on wed had a early morning skype convo with my family, we had camineta and i was with becca! so fun :) we played guitar and talked and it was awesome. after was work day and i was in charge of clearing out the river... ;s luckily i was with kiley and it wasnt as bad as previous times so it wasnt tooo bad and i managed to get thruogh it. i than went for a 3 mile run, had a missions trip meetnig which we got our shirts and booklets that tell whats hapening,than skyped wtih hillary, than played soccer...lost again and had to jump into the lake, than had a shower and i was soo exhasuted! i could barley keep my eyes open! after supper we had a worship evening night, a special one which we have once every month and do communium. last night it was a focus on the missions trip and the band played, and than we prayed for all the differnt groups in the kiosko in our missions ministry groups and it was super powerful and awesome! than i went to bed around 10:30 and passed out! today got up, had breakfast and than had an hr of prayer and class one esther, managed to finish my paper, and am almost done packing everything :) its exciting! me and kiley are going to the store today to buy munchies for the ride there...about 7 hrs ish to the place but were taking 4 different vehicles so it wont be overcroweded at all!! which is awesome! im stoked! went and bought a lot of food, but they woudldnt take my visa right away because i didnt have ID...first time being asked for ID lol but finally he got annoyed and took it anyways! played guitar for abit! daikel and ody made a cuban meal for us and it was soooooo good :) i love experienceing differnet food from different cultures! than after went and played some b-ball :) so fun! it rained a bit too but that didnt stop the funnes! man i love playing b-ball..i acutally miss it soo mucch! lol but ya mission trip tomorow :) cheers!

Oct.23-24,2011

So sunday was a typical sunday. since i went to church on sat, i didn't go to church on sun morning. i relaxed, played guitar, hung out with people, very nice day off! Pablo came around 4 and i had another guitar lesson and he says that next time theres a lesson i will learn a song :) im soo excited! its going to be soo fun! my first ever song :) after supper we had worship night, and that was enjoyable, i love these nights, worshipping and praising God. its awesome :) i than hung out on the couch with stephanie and kiley and we sang songs and did actions to them while laying down...it was intresting but oh so fun :)us bible school kids...sheesh were crazy :P but that was my sunday, and my new daily duty is room check...hopefully be fun! And monday came around, it was pretty decent of a day. started my new daily duty and its not as bad as i thought it would be! no spiders were found! woo! had another class on esther and than went to my ministry after lunch...it was a very chill hr and a bit. not much running around which is nice considering i was on my 3rd day of fasting. and than played guitar for abit. than in the eveing after supper, had another class on john and we had a guest speaker who did chp.9 and that was pretty awessome. and at the end of the class i have fasted for 75.5 hrs than i had a power bar thing. i guess we"ll see what guidence and direction i get and discernment, there were many things i asked for and prayed for and what not but 2 major ones were my focus these last couple days so im going to see where there gonna go and well God reveal what you want. cheers! :)

Engagement 101

Yes, i have been engaged for one day of my life at Port. And this is how it happened...Okay, im not engaged in any sense! this is what happened...i left my facebook online and jose came on and switched my status without me knowing...and than i found out and left it for a bit to see the comments...than kelsey and jose made a made Austin a fb page, but he really doesnt have fb! (real pics and information apartt from birthday however) but than jose went and switched us to engaged and bam, that was when it started...lol so thank you for the well wishes but im really not in any sense engaged! Austin is a great guy, but were just friends!! but it was really intresting to see all the amount of ppl that actually believed it. i know that it is quite possible that it could of happened but not to me at this time! sorry for all who believed it, if i ever was to get engaged we would be in a relationship on fb first! lol. Apart from that it was a pretty decent day. Hung out and had fun, had fmaily night and we watched nacho libro(i duno how to spell the last part of his name) and had nachos! lol fun fun :) and had first class on esther...that was pretty awesome, its pretty good so far! today i really dont know what im going to do! lol but i like the weekend! lol cheers! :)

Wed y Thurs

So wednesday was awesome. had caminata in the morning and my partner was alicia! that was nice to get to know her better and than my work day duty was cleaning the pisos which are the floors in the sala/dining room area. that wasn't too bad, and than after we had a missions trip meeting and had to present what we were gonna do down there and my speaking was a bit better...still not the greatest but getting there and than after soccer time :) at first everyone was lame and said i wont come because of this and that and random excuses so it was just me, adair, tanis and jorge and we had jose join us and we started a bet...whoever lost...jump into the lake...now the lake here is gross, simply awful and yucky and you just dont go in there so first one up to 10 and than we had more ppl join like austin, alicia, steven, pica, diego and than it ended up being staff against students and loser had to jump in the lake. it was a most intense game!! the score came to be 9-9 and well the staff won in the end and so yup...we gotta jump in the lake..now it wasnt as bad as i thoguht it would be...i was sooo thankful my head didnt go under the water! after that had a shower than it was supper time and than class on feasts of israel once again! thurs rolled around and had an hr of prayer, than had our last class on feasts of israel, next came lunch and than worked on my paper, played guitar and got ready for the passover! so we had a full out fledged passover! it was soo cool and neat to experinece something totally different! so awesome! pics will be up soon! but ya i love it here, its absoutly amazing! :) so fun! cheers :)

Sun - Tue

So sunday was good, since I never got to go to church on sat, i was planning on going to the early service at vida abudante with a bunhc of ppl, but i set my alarm for one hr too late as my computer time has not switched and well i got up when they left...so than i didnt really wanna go out walking by myself to catch up to them so than i ended up listening to spanish worship songs and 2 sermons of my dad. that was very nice. first time since ive been here that ive understood everything!! lol. and than after it was lunch and in the afternoon i didn't do much. chilled and played guitar, baked cookies for our ministry on monday afternoon and than got a guitar lesson from pablo :) he is soo good! and than had worship in the evening and than just chilled and hung out. Monday came around and had our first class on Feasts of Israel which is really cool, Im enjoying it. Quite intresting adn than monday we had our ministry and so we went to the soup kitchcen adn it was different than usual as it wasnt as hardcore, there was barley any spinning or piggybacking! lol. and than came back had a shower and than played some more guitar. After supper we had another class on Feast of Isreal and than played guitar some more and chilled. Tue came rollign around and went to family sm group and that was nice. i enjoy it! and than had class again adn than my afternoon was free so i went to NovaCentro with steph,kiley, and adri and we hung out and bought stuff we need! i got guitar picks :) its exciting!! im soo stoked, expect there kinda thick the ones i bought so they arent as nice as the one pablo gave me but at least i have guitar picks! woop! and than class in evening and i attetmpted to go for a run in the afternoon but it was rainign and the track was muddy and i wiped out on the path and my leg felt not the greatest for a while but its fine now. than i was in the computer room and i started to get up to leave and i tripped over my computer cord and fell on my butt...ya that was kinda embarrassing...but hey its to be expected as im accident prone! lol. today is wed and off to caminata i go. cheers!

Thurs y Friday y Saturday

So thurs was good, had class on kings and family night! :) we had a christmas party with ugly sweaters! ya that was fun. pics r up on fb so check them out! we had pumpkin pie, chai tea and it was fun! On friday finished Kings and wrote the paper. After supper just hung out and chilled. played some card games with austin,adam,heather,kate,abby and me. Today went to san jose and got more things for my family and friends. and it has been raining for the past 4 days but luckily today when we were there it didnt rain until we were watiing for the bus to go home! so that was a blessing. had wednys for lunch. still raining and im soo sick of rain but oo also found out the potentials for next sem! we may acutlaly have more boys, we have a potential of having 13 guys! hahaha which will be a big change from this sem since we only have like 7 or 8 guys so not too much but 5 more guys will be a big difference. should be intresting. my dad should be happy to hear that. i may acutally find my husband like he thinks i will :P haha gotta love the teasing of a dad! practicing guitar some more and Pablo gave me some cords that i need to do fluently so that it can be easier to play guitar so ive been working on that and tomrorw he will be here again so ill get another lesson :) im stoked! i told my parents i wanted a guitar for christmas so if i got one that would be amazing! i had a chance to skype with my family for a tiny bit and so that was nice, were gonan try for 9:30 tonight because my dad went hunting this afternoon but i still gotta talk to my paretns for a wee bit so that was nice! attempted talking tonght but the connection was bad so gotta re scheudle sometime but im off to bed soon. cheers! :)

Tue y Wed

So the last couple days went well, nothing overlly exciting happend. It has been raining a lot. and i mean a lot! but than it is the super rainy season right now and we have been fortunate in the weather so far but now its getting colder and rainer but still super nice here! Tuesday had family group in the morning, gave my testimony! good practice casue i wanna say it in front of everyone sometime before the end of the sem as it would be good to get over my fear of public speaking! Kings took place as well on Tue and that is an awesome class! I like it a lot. the speaker is good and the material is prettt decent. Gotta write my paper on it today...Wed was caminata and work day. I had Alba as my partner and she knows only spanish really and so i understood everything she said! iwas super excited :) i couldnt reply as much as i wanted to but i did some and it was really good practice for me! than it was work day and I with jose, cody and jayda gotta clean out the lake. that was intrseting, not tooo bad acutally. i saw no spiders so i was happy! also had a missions trip meeting and got everything finally finished, well at least for my ministry that i will be doing there which is sunday school. than the La Cumbre(its a camp) people came here and we played a hardcore game of soccer! mostly guys and there was like 8 or 9 ppl on each team and mostly everyone had soccer cleats! it was defintly the most intesne game ive played here yet. It was la cumbre against the Porta people. So fun! it was raining the whole entire time and it was like pouring and it was cold as well iwth the wind and what not but we still played and it turned into mud ball. the field was mudddy and had puddles of water an dwhen you ran and tried to stop you slide a lot and pulled up the grass and it got more muddy and whne your runnig the mud and water are flying everywhere. o ya it was good times! so fun though depsite all of that! it made it more fun and a better challenge :) than had kings in the evening and than i practicced guitar some more. Pablo is gonna teach  me and were gonna jam together on sundays so that hppefully by the end of the sem i can play in a sunday worship night. :) so im on the course of Mighty TO Save right now, and Becca kinda showed me how to do it so that when Pablo comes Im not too bad! haha but im soo excited! should be fun :) ive always wanted to learn how to play guitar and now its finally coming true :) and this morning me and adiar slept in...and i mean slept in...we missed breakfast and got woken up at 8:10 lol it was great! but at leats we had a good sleep. my finger still hurts though because i practiced for so long so it hurts to put pressure on my finger but thats okay! im willing to do it so that i can play and get half decent! lol cheers! :)

Monday!

So on monday our new class started. It was on kings. the speaker is the director guy of the texas campus - his hill and thats really cool. its an english class so thats nice to have it switched up! attemptd to go for a run yesterday but iset my alarm one hr ahead by mistake....i was supose to set it back so today i tried and it never went off....i dunnno..this is not working out for me so ima gonna download another one from the internet and try that. After morning worship and class and lunch, had ministry again and so went to that. so fun! the kids are soo cute and we are forming relationships with them :) and than i finally uploaded the first part of my pictures and had the class on John in the evening and that was cool. Heard the testimony of a buisness man, one of Don Marco's best friends. Today got King's class again and family group devotional and so that"ll be fun. and myafternoon is free today so im hoping to get done my ruth and titus papers from last week...there due this friday with the kings paper! cheers! :)

Panama!!! :)

So since I was only allowed to be in the country for 90 days off to Panama went the Portantorchas group! It was pretty darn awesome! So nice there :) Took a mercedes benz bus there, that was nice not to have to use the micro buses and we were alltogether so that made it even better! stopped at the border, and went through customs and all those fun things! luckily we got through farily quick :) some years it took like 2 hrs to get through them we got lucky plus we were ahead of schedule so that made it nice! but it was super humidy hot there that it seemed like a lot longer. We had to go across a sketchy bridge to get to the Panama side. Pics will be up soon so you can see how sketchy it really was. Big holes and cracks...oh it was fun stuff :P Panama has the most sketchy bathrooms ever! sheesh...really didnt feel overally safe using them but hey there bathrooms! lol. Finally made it through customs and than we were in Panama and we took a boat to the island we were staying at. Boca del Toros it was called, and that was nice to be in a boat on the carribean ocean feeling the wind and sun on you! but it acutally wasnt overlly tooo sunny the first day we were there but it was still hot and humid! defintly easily to get burned! Got to the island and I was in room 202 with kiley, adri and steph :) it was a party! so fun! and the rooms were really really nice, i loved them and they had air conditioning which was schweet! and we had nothing planned for that day when we arrived there so we just hung out around the town and shopped and saw the scenery and what not. The next day we had breakfast and than went onto a boat and went to various places. We went snorkling, and to a beach and it was sooo gorgeous. loved it! but to be honest, i thought belize had better scenery under the water than the spots we went too but it was still gorgoues and i would defintly go there again!! And i took lots of precautions to not get burned and that day turned out to be a success, never got burned so that was nice! and after we just chilled and hung out, shopped, visited all that fun stuff and got a phone call from the guys saying some really random stuff...gotta love pranks like that :p but than some of the girls(not me, i was just watching) did some stuff to them, nothing major or hardcore just i dont really know how to explain it, you had to be there but it was fun none the less. 3nd day we went out again, went to this area where there was jellyfish and we got to hold some, that was sooo cool, they felt soo werid and we went snorkling in an area where they were and some ppl got stung. luckily i didnt! i was quite glad for that. we also went to starfish beach and there were soo many starfishes and white sands and clear blue waters. so awesome. and i got to hold a bunch of starfishes and that was fun! and than we went to a place for lunch and hung out there and than back to boca del toros and the rest of the day was chill and relaxed and didnt do much. everyone was super tired and what not. than we were leaving the nexxt morning so after breakfast we left back on the boat and went back to the bus which was parked on the land and drove to the border crossing again, and once again we got lucky(thank you god) and managed to get through pretty darn quick was sweet. had to walk on the sketchy bridge again and use a sketchy washroom(there was a couple of them on this trip) but it was all good and made it a more fuller experience! and than we drove back to Port and had supper and now im writing this and deciding if i want to put up pics tonight or not. i dont actually know. lol . but ya thats panama, totally awesome and most defintly go there again in a heartbeat!!! :D cheers! i would reccomend it to anyone. o ya we got invited to a lot of parties, every night, same ones and some ppl even got offered drugs, ya it might be a vaction area but certainly has lots of secular things on it. ooo we also had a devo time and meet some of the locals and they came to join us these couple guys and that was sweet, good to meet them and what not. ya, thats about it. tomorow heading off to Pica's church and than going out for lunch with the other ppl that are going to his church so that will be nice. im stoked! cheers once again!

Weekend Once Again

So just finished this weekend. wasn't too shabby! friday, didn't do much but becca's paretns came and so that was nice to meet them! they are very nice and treated us all to ice cream!! friday our class ended on the bibical charcaters class and so we dont have to write a paper but we have to do a "newspaper" type thing about differnt ppl  in the bible! that should be intresting how i do that...due tomorow and i havnt started!! plus im super busy these last days. i also went to the doctors and paid 50$ for the visit and $70 for the anitbiotics as i had a respitorty tract infection and it's caused by a unknown bacteria and the infrection doesn't go away!! so its good in a way but man, it really drained my account! on sat i went to san jose and was fun! got this really cool sweater type jacket thing but not really and i went with becca, her family, cody, jayda and christena! so fun! and than planned on going to Pica's church in the evening but when we got back we went to change and than they left without us so than that was great...but the staff here are soo awesome. they tried getting a hold of him and waiting with us and it was soo nice! but in the end diego took us to a differnt church - vida abudante and we went to that and than came home and started watcign amazing grace but we quit early to go to bed since were super tired and we were gonna do a race on sundayy! so sunday came....and left Port at 7:30 and went to san jose where we met adri and her mom/brother(who was doing the 8k) and they drove us the rest of the way! i really didn't knwo why i agreed to do it...i have been sick for 2 weeks and done zip for physical activity. but surprise, surprise i acutally ran amazingly well for having those against me. i pushed myself and kept passing ppl. so i guess it worked out not too bad and i really did wanna run the 8k that was taking place but i knew that wouldnt be smart considering im still not 100% better but than we came back, had lunch, and than just got ready for the worship night. it was a fundraiser for our missions trip! it went pretty awesome and than after...well i went to bed as i was super tired. running that race really tired me out! but glad to know i can run again! cheers! oo and in 2 days were off to panama :D