Travelling Home Day!

So got up at 5:30am and left around 5 to the airport, me, austin, jayda and kate were all on the same flight to houston! woo! it was pretty good but our seats were oppoiste! jayda and austin were at the back left and we(me and kate) were at the front right but it was still good and me and kate sat beside this lady and Kate ended up talking about religion and God and stuff and found she shes from amsterdam, and doesnt belive in a God! so she and kate chatted abou that and other things and it was very awesome that kate got to spread the word of the Lord! :) so i hope that a seed gets planted in her heart! made it houston, kate had to book it as she had an hr to get through customs and picking up luggage adn stuff! she missed her flight however and so he got another that same day though so thats nice! going though customs was sups long! and after me and jayda and austin went to this seafood place and wanted to try alligator, so he got some and shared some with me and jayda and it tasted like chicken! not bad at all! than we found out that it was 2:20 and that was my boarding time so we booked it to gate C, which is farther than we thought! we had to go on a train thing to get there and i almost missed it! luckily they just finished boarding when i got there and so i made it on safe and sound! now currently in the seattle airport and my flight doesnt leave until 10:50. all together ive calcuated that im going to have about 16 hrs travel time alone today! its insane, im almost home and its just to bad i have to wait so long! but o well, should be good. oh adn im really homesick right now for Porta! i really wanna be there again and see everyone. miss them soo much! but i know that we will see each other again someday! whether it be here on earth on in heaven! and that was my flight day! cheers :)

The Final Weekend

So this weekend starting on friday was when people started to leave! first it was stephanie and she was the only one on friday, we hung out and had a fire and chilled and it was very fun and relaxing, stayed up till 12 and got up early to see christoph and nina off at 3 than got up at 5 to see sam and the other steph off, went back to bed, got up for breakfast and hung out with everyone, at 10 saw Ethan, Becca, Christena and Abby off and than, went to nova centro and ate at McD's there, and i now have enough money to get out of this country! 28$ is the exit fee. Stayed up until 12 again, made bannack, played telephone pictionary and had a nice fire going :) very nice! and than me and adair chatted for a bit and than up at 4:30 so that at 5 saw Adair, Darren, Deborah, Alicia and Cody and than came back, couldnt really sleep so i had a shower, ate some breakfast, put up pics, skyped with Becca :) for an hr with everyone who was here, it was totally awesome! saw Kiley and Adam off, they had to leave Porta at 9:45 and now back here, had lunch a bit earlier. outside too! it was soo sunny and nice :) went up to the balcony and sang worship songs. it was so awesome, sunny and hot with a light breeze and light rain falling down, once it started to rain harder we went inside and played dutch blitz! we want to watch a movie so we went over to Don Marco's house and got Elf and Enchanted! It was fun! Than Jose asked if anyone wanted to go watch a soccer game with Don Marco and me and austin said yes so we went to watch saprissa aganist la liga! so awesome :) first ever live soccer game thats proffessional and it was schweet. i got some pics and videos and it was just soo awesome wayy to end the sem! im stoked! couldnt ask for a better way!! woo! tonight were planning on wathcing movies and making bannack and so it should be fun. leave Porta at 5am tomorow and my flight takes off at 7:55am!! cheers!

Graduation Day!

So it was graduation on thurs. and it was amazing! The morning we had a baptism and that was fun! jose and adrianna got baptized and than we just chilled until 2 when the sala area was close to get set up and everyone than got ready. crazy afternoon, supper was at 6 and they really fancied the place up. it was sooo pretty. so gorgeous. and we had a nice meal with the staff serving us and than after we had time to take pictures and just hang out until the clean up was done. after everyone went to the sala and kelsey gave a small message and than Don Marco and Tom handed out the certificates and everyone went up there, and Iiego and Isa read the verses we chose out in english and spanish and than we, if we wanted to say something we could and so i managed to be able to and it was not to bad, i acutally spoke clearly and slowly and didnt overally freeze! such a improvement from the first time i punlic spoke in front of everyone! after we prayed for first sem, second sem and returning students and after that it was dessert! :) soo good! and after it was one crazy dance party. we blasted the music and partied it up. danced soo much! it was soo fun! and than Diego came at 11 and told us to turn down the music since 10 was quiet hr! went to bed around 12 and woke up to see steph off as she was leaving port at 5 and that was a Portantorchas Fall 2011 Graduation! happy yet bittersweet at the same time well cheers!

The Final Days!

So Tuesday came around and we had our ministry presentations and that was good to see all the different ones. After it was pretty chill, we are hanging out a lot and just trying to spend as much time as possible together under the fire and christmas tree! we had until 12 am to finish our projects and we also had family night! :) so fun! we just ate nachos and chips, brownies and chatted! good bonding time :) on wed we had work day and i was doing the pisos with jayda and rebecca t and that was fun! my camineta partner was sam and that was good! in the afternoon around 2 we had a little group bonding activity. for 4.5 hrs we went around the circle and said nice stuff about each other. it could of gone on longer but we had to cut it shorter than we wanted just because of time and what not but it was a very lovely wayy to just say what we wanted to everyone and it was very nice. i love the people here, they are so amazing and just like my family. wed evening we had a talent show and that was very entertaining! we got some talented ppl here! and after we went into the kiosko and watched a video that jose and austin made. all through the sem austin got so much stuff on film and than made it into a 27 min video! good promo video and the stuff is sooo funny! those guys stayed up all night to make it getting maybe 40 minutes max of sleep! me and christoph than tried to attempt to make a fire and it took forever to get good and finally when it was getting good at like 11:55pm we had to get ready to pour water on it because 12 is curfew so that was fun. o ya, nina and christioph came this week to visit and hang out with usand that was soo awesome so im enjoying my time with them! and today we are getting ready for graduation. and its gonna be crazy! me and becca slept through 6am breakfast with don marco as he finished john. it was taking place in the boathouse with fish and bread and we missed it, but o well, and than steph came and got us for breakfast, it was at 8 and she got us at 8:05 and so we missed the prayer time and so we had to breakfast dishes, it was great. since adair was gone with her family, doing a sleep over thing at jorges house, me and becca stayed up until just pass 12:30 talking about stuff and she slept in adairs bed and it was awesome! soccer is taking place today at 1:30 after dishes adn prolly for an hr and a half and than graduation time! cant believe its already here! so insane. so bittersweet! exciting yet sad because ppl are starting to leave tomorow! but the sala and kitchen area are going to be blocked off at 2 so than we cant go in there until supper so that should be intresting what it looks like. today is going to be a insane day, thats all i can really say. we also(yesterday) made affirmation cards and put all our names on it and so we can all sign and say stuff to ppl, and thats awsome beaucse its always nice to get that. so im currently sitting here in front of the fire wathcing ppl write in different cards while im doing this. we also have a sheet up with our addreess, phone numbers, email etc..and we are putting our skype on there as well so it should hopefully be easish to keep in touch! cheers :)

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday to Monday, Monday, Monday

Sunday was fun. went to the early morning service at vida abudante again, that was nice and carlos drove us so that made it even better! last sunday service there until next sem! seems so werid knowing that next sunday ill be in my church in Canada! its trippy!! got back and its like 9:30 so got the whole rest of the day to party it up! played guitar a bit, hung out. in the evening it was sunday night worship and i played my first worship song :) even though i only used the down wards strums cause up was too difficult it was pretty decent. i got adair to film me and so it will be up on fb! o btw, the joke that i couldnt tell you. well it failed anyways, put exlax in austin's drink but it didnt work on him! too bad! lol. but at least adair managed to get it in there and so that was pretty swell! been staying up soups late the last week and planning this week because its the end and so i wanna spend time with everyone! so on monday we had class on john and than after lunch i went to san jose and that was fun. got a really pretty blue scarf! and than came back, uploaded photos and i had a lovley skype conversation with my brother today :) and that was awesome just to catch up and get updated in each others lives. called the claim insurance place yesterday, talked to a guy named Joshua and it was pretty sweet. talked about costa rica for a bit and what not and than he sent me the claims forms and so now gotta fill them out again but i think ill send them when im in canada..hopefully it gets there faster. so 2 claim forms in 4 months, not too bad for me considering im accident prone! lol. now currently playing dutch blitz and been playing for a while! so fun! but as the night goes on, we get slower and slower but than thats to be expected at 11:50pm at night! lol. curfew soon! cheers :)

2nd Last Week of This Sem! Wed-Sat

So Wed came rolling around and instead of camineta and work day..well the staff had a surprise for us! go karts :) woop! so exciting, never done them before. so went to the go-kart place and had a tounrmanet type thing. somehow i made it into the finals against austin, diego, jorge, adam and jose. it was the most intense battle ever! so fun. but they all beat me! but i ended up 6th place which is awesome! out of everyone so i felt pretty proud of myself, represented the chikas. in the afternoon it was free for all and some girls went to get their hair and eyebrows done. i never went because i had other stuff to do. and in the evening it was a class on minor prophets which is our own time assigment. than just hung out late and chilled after
and than on thurs, we had the morning to work on the minor prophet assignment and than the afternoon was free! woo! in the evening for family night, we went out to the mall and ate out and hung out and played some games at the arcade, it was very fun! DDR is awesome :D
and on friday, went to jaco with my small group :) im in clari's group and we went with diego(her husband), his small group so it was girls and guys together for small group half day and we went surfing. :) however the waves sucked mucho! and they were too strong and fast and you just couldnt get out far enough to acutally get a chance to surf, so that wasnt realy fun, at least it was sunny out so that was nice! banged up my foot again a bit! not fun but it doesnt hurt right now so thats nice! Came back and there was a ministry going on, the kids home came here and so than i ended up teaching a girl the cords i know on the guitar and it was super cool! first student i had even though im just learning! it was sweet! and than in the evening, we hung out and had a fire and just relaxed and played some games.
sat came rolling around and i went to walmart and best brand(shoe store) with some of the girls and i got some coffee and a pair of shoes :) i needed one! and it was only like 8 bucks ish! such a good deal! and than came back and didnt do much, in the evening there was a fire going and we played murder games more or less, kinda ironic. we played mafia and wink murder and than we totally did tim tam slams! :) best things ever! it was only me and jayda who knew them! that was good to teach ppl how to do them. than went to bed but woke up in the middle of the night scratching my leg, it was awful :S its getting so worst! so itchty and so hard not to scratch it. but im getting by. that was my week! cheers! :)

Nov.14 - 15, 2011

On Mon, it was just an ordinary day, just without classes. we had a evalluation about the sem to do but than other than that we had zip :) hung out and played guitar some more, and in the evening instead of having class we watched a movie instead! Letters to God, such a good movie! i def reccomeend it! had frozen onix or this banana smoothie thing with popcorn and it was soo good. On Tue we had our first class on minor prophets, its going to be a self study class and so we just got explained whats happening and what to do. we got to pick our own and i picked obediah. should be intrestnig because i know lickilty split about him! went to san jose in the afternoon and got everything needed for gifts :) i just need to buy coffee now than im fully done. Had our 2nd last family small group as well and so that was fun. had supper dishes becuase im on lunch but since we were leaving to san jose right after lunch i had to find a sub, and so austin took mine and i took his supper dishes and after supper there was a class on john and we managed to get through 3 chapters! amazing, for that class lol. than i was exhasuted so i went to bed! cheers :)

Sunday, Nov.13th

Went to the early service at vida abudante and than chilled for a bit and relaxed and hung out wiht ppl than after lunch did the same thing more or less but I made KD after lunch and it was soo good :) man imissed it. and than went to diego's and clari's house to bake cookies for ministry and so that was fun! oatmeal chocolate chip :) sooooooo good! and than waited for pablo to show up for my guitar lesson but he didn;t and sent me a message saying he wasn't good and what not so it was esta bien. and he sent me a instrcutional video for mighty to save and so ive been practcing that and im acutally getting half decent! u can kind of tell what song im playing and so on thurs I hope for him to instrct me but for the most part the video he gave me is awesome and ive been learning soo much! :) and than after supper we had worship which was awesome and we just shared what God has been doing in our lives here, during the missions trip etc...and so that was nice and there was a fire going so that made it even awesomeer! After just hung out by the fire and adam and jose were scaring heather and kelsey for whatever reason and that was intertaining and than me and becca went to the dorm sala and hung out, cuddled and chatted and it was awesome with chocolate chips! cheers :)

Nov.11-12 (Bible School Pranks 102, Action Shots/Fire - complements of guys and Jaco Beach)

So pranks, well there have been minor ones going on but a major one is when austin stuck food coloring in some face mask cream stuff and tanis gave it to adair and so her face turned pink, as well as her hands. so the girsl decided to attempt to die his hair. First by the kiosko they tried but he evaded them and than while he was in the computer room skyping they attempted and did get it on his head but he went and washed it off immedatly. But they didn't get up hope. They roped in Cody to give them austin's shampoo bottle and they filled it with some hair dye and well it didn't work. so the girls don't know what else currently to do to austin as nothing seems to faze him and he gets them really good! there is one they have that there going to one of the guys here but I can't say it because they havnt done it yet but when it happens, I will report on it. and so
friday came around and finished class, finished my paper on Colossians, and went to the girls hang out thing at Clar's place. So fun! than in the evening we were just hanging out in the sala and the guys decided to do action shots...so they put a mattress on the floor and jumped and did random stuff in the air...and danced some too and it was very entertaining!! got some decent pics that will be up soon. There crazy. Than they had this fire thing and they put a fire in it and attempted to burn up... First it was austin's leg for whatever reason and than austin and jose tried to get their hands on fire and used rubbing alchol so that it would work better. Got some videos of it and so I don't know what was going on in their brains but ya typical guys :p
And today went to Jaco Beach. It's about a two hr drive and there was a bunch of us that went, left around 8 and started surfing around 1 as that was the time it was good to. got tips from fresia's husband randall and that was very nice. we rented 3 boards between 10 girls and so we each had some time with it. Randall taught me and gave me pointers in the water and it was soooooo freakin fun! omg, loved it! got up a couple times :) mostly made it to my knees and some well I didn't even make it! but first day ever surfing! always wanted to go! and bam, it was in costa rica :) how awesome is that!??! I think it's sweet. Used other ppl's boards when they wanted a break so I got lots of practice in. such a fun day. so exhausted though. it really uses up a lot of energy! and i mean a lot...im gonna feel it tomorow. Cheers :)

Nov.6-10

Missed some days, been busy. Sunday there was no worship, no guitar practice either :( but o well i have this sunday coming up :)didn't do much, hung out chilled like usual. oo the card game thats now popular is scum/president...there are many names for it. but monday we started a new class on colossians and it was my 2nd last ministry day! talked to the kids about the cruxification .reserecution and next week were gonna have a party since its the last day...bittersweet really. tue i helped out with entre amigas cause i needed another ministry thing so that was good and had class again and family small group. my foot still hurts me so i asked for an easier job on wed and i got it...the sheets in the domrms! doing laundry so that was nice! and my caminata partner was christena and so it was good to get to know her better! had class in the evening. thurs came around and had class and a free afternoon so i ended up going to walmart with stephanie to get stuff for our ministry and than hung out with kiley and attempted to do my paper...ya im still not very far on it and its due tomrow...good thing i have nothing going for me..except for the tea party at 2:15..well hope i get it done! tonight had family night and we had brownies and ice cream! and played this game where you had to write up to 100 and u could only write when you got doubles and than people would steal the pen from you so they can write when they got doubles, it was very fun and intense! now im about to multi-task...upload photos and work on my paper :) cheers!

Missions Trip 101

So these past 9 days I was on a missions trip. First day, we left after breakfast around 9. It was approx 7 hrs to get there but ended up taking 9 hrs ish, we got there around 6 - 7 ish. So fairly long day driving but we got the joy of having 3 microbuses to have, the 2 we have at port and a rented one which we had 16 in it and 8 in each of the other buses so it was very nice and spacey so that made it half decent. Went to our families house right away and Mari was my roomate and so that was nice. They had a small house with only one bedroom and so they left every night after we went to bed to go and sleep at her sister's house which was just down the road. The next morning we were picked up and went to the church for breakfast, it was saturday and we had youth group to get ready for, so the whole day we hung out with kids - youth and did different games and what not and in the evening with the youth we had a service where the band played and jeremey spoke and it was very good, and we lit candles and it was super pretty. the following day we had sunday school and so i was in charge of ages 1-3 and that was good, the band played in the service and Daikel spoke and I hung out with little kids with kattia, and adair and it was very fun! than we got a chance to hang out with our tico familes that we were staying with but our family wasnt home so we ended up hanging out with kelsey and adair and went to a coffee shop and met a lot of ppl from our group there and it went from 4 to a lot! so fun! and the coffee stuff there is soo good! after when our family was back, we went there and hung out with them for a bit than monday came rolling around. monday was our first work day and we had 2 projects we were gonna work on, an elementary school and a house for a lady(fixing the ceiling and giving her a new washing area) and most ppl went to the elementary school but me, austin, darren, daikel, kiley, and rebecca went to the house and worked there that week and that was fun! soo good, and other hired workers were there and so we worked with them. mostly just did the shed thing while they did the ceiling inside. however carlos and austin helped a bit with the ceiling. after work day we had the homeless people ministrys and so on monday evening we went around and invited homeless people to the church for the following evening and gave them food and drinks and it was good community. the following day(tuesday) we worked some more and than in the evening it was when the homeless ppl came and so they did and we chatted with them, carlos shared his testimony and we gave them hotdogs and drinks and than asked if anyone wanted to know Jesus and what not and it was a very good night. On wed we didn't work at all. we were in schools all day. the morning we had 7-9 grade and played games, did a skit, jose shared some and it was very fun! met some awesome ppl, and in the afternoon had grades 10-12 and did the same thing for the most part and in the evening we went to the elemntary school where we were painting and hung out with the kiddies there and played games, jeremey told them the story of david and goalith and adam and heather acted that out, quite enteraining! than at the end we had a pinata for the differtn ages, and that was really fun! and than we left. thurs and friday we had no ministrys so we just worked all day! got a lot done! for the most part...however for the house project we were waiting around a decent amount for the cement, for other various things and so it was a lot of sitting but we still managed to get it all done apart from the railing and sticking the sink up but we finished everything else! pics are gonna be up either tonight or tomorow so defintly check them out :) and the rain stopped us some as well but it was good. our team was pretty awesome. on thurs evening some of us went to play soccer with a bunch of ticos at the school we were at and that was soo fun! however my running shoes are falling apart and full of cement so i ended up playing barefoot against everyone with shoes and so my foot hurts soo much! i cant put full amount of pressure on it but its slowly gettting better...slowly...lol. friday we finished early and ended up going to the border for a bit, bunch of cheap stuff so that was good, had no money so i ended up just looking but it was still fun! left after breakfast on saturday morning and got there sometime in the evening and when we got back, we had a surprise from the staff...they put up christmas decorations, trees and decorated the dining room all pretty and had a lovely meal adn it was just soo awesome and feels so much like christmas here now and its great! i love it :) and that is my missions trip in a nutshell!