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Cindy in Brazil
A good friend of mine from my days in New Zealand, Cindy Ruakere, has brought out her third CD and is now at the beginning of a one year world tour. It starts in Brazil, and involves living in a slum and ministring to the people here. Cindy Ministering in Brazil Here is a small [...]
Three Months Engaged
NOTE: Carolina and I are no longer engaged. We broke up in April. Carol has moved on to another YWAM base where she is studying. I will remain here and continue to work in Puerto Madryn. Today Carol and I celebrated our third month of engagement. In July we will be getting married in Colombia, [...]
The Time Between
Well, it has been a while since I updated this blog. What has been happening since Corrientes? Carolina The first and most important thing that has been happening is that I have met a beautiful girl from Colombia. Carolina was a student on the outreach in Peru that I was leading and since returning from [...]
Engaged
That’s right. Last night after dating Carol for almost two months we are now engaged. A lovely girl from Colombia, I first met Carol in the team of students that I was leading in Peru, and by the end of our time there it was obvious to everybody that there was something happening between us. [...]
New Zealand – it’s all over now
After five days in New Zealand, I am now on the plane back to Argentina. My time in New Zealand really flew past during the race around to try and catch up with as many people as possible. Met at the airport at midnight by Walter and Gail, we managed to stuff the large amounts [...]
Old People – Photos While Waiting
Some more photos taken while waiting for the paperwork to be completed on my motorscooter. This time it is of old people that lived nearby or wandered past. The photos are taken in the same section of town, but in different areas. Owner of the house of the previous photos entering his garage. Old man [...]
Old Houses – Photos While Waiting
While Sergio and I were waiting for our Escribana during the paperwork saga on my motorscooter, I snapped off a number of photos. These were all in the same area of the one street. Old house on Misiones Avenue. The same house’s number as it is pegged to the wall. The door of this same [...]
Lehman Ready for Church
Every day is a different day here, and sometimes it rains so much that there is large puddles of water and mud everywhere. So getting to church in good shoes can be a daunting task. Lehman has solved all of these problems by an ingenious system. It is a combination of farmer and city-boy. Here [...]
Football Match in Entre Rios
It is Sunday today, and upon my arrival in the bus, I search out Guido, a good friend from the mission. He is down at the church, where the service has just finished, and I find him farewelling his parishoners. After greeting and catching up a little on where life has taken us since we [...]
Our Local Shop in Corrientes
Having been here for a long time, it was only recently that this shed situated right next to our property was opened as a shop. The guy that runs it, Ariel, actually started his Discipleship course with us back in July 2004. Now he works next to us and loves chatting with all an any [...]
Isaac and Natalia Marry (Civil) in Corrientes
Isaac was in my Discipleship school in 2004, and he stayed on and worked with us in the mission here until December last year. During this time he fell in love with a young girl and today they both got married. This is the first part of the wedding for Argentina – the civil wedding. [...]
Photographing a Wedding
A friend of a friend asked if I could photograph their wedding for them. It was not a paid job or anything like that, but I was given a place in the wedding and reception and all of the food that comes with it. For me it was more the challenge and the opportunity to [...]
People’s Attitudes to Other People’s Stuff
One of the things that really gets on my nerves is other people not caring about stuff that is not theirs. Here, in South America where money seems to be in such short supply, you would expect that people would be extremely careful with stuff that was not theirs because they could not afford to [...]
Brothers Three
Sometime in 2001, while living in New Zealand, I headed with my elder brother over to Japan where our youngest brother was living for a while. The idea was to catch up with him and check out where he was living as well as get to see some of this fascinating land called Japan. It [...]
Shocking Your Friends
Only three days ago I had been talking via email with my good mate Chris who was in Quito, Ecuador. He had been there for a while by now, around two or three weeks actually, which for a traveller was quite a long time. Only minutes ago I sent off an email. I figured that [...]
Bye Bye Mexicanas, Bye Bye
Something happens on the inside as you get to know people over time. It is slow and imperceptible at times, but it happens. Along the journey these people become closer and closer to us. They are the people that mark our lives forever. They change us for having known them. They are our friends. Today [...]
Joining the Wedding
When we were choosing the place that we were going to eat dinner, the thought of a wedding did not even enter our heads. After all, it was food we were after. But that did not stop this fairy tale adventure from happening to us this night. A sign that not all is so bad [...]
Wasting Time With A Camera Phone
I spent the day in town today. Although the morning was busy, the whole place shuts up for siesta for about four hours over lunch. As a result, Pedro and I were left with nothing much to do. To pass the time we decided to play with the camera on my phone. These are the [...]
Meeting The Scotts
TREINTA Y TRES: The main purpose of traveling through Uruguay was to visit the Goodmans. A family that I met via email through mutual friends. They lived in Treinta y Tres, the capital city of the province of the same name. This is where I had just arrived, and I had no idea what to [...]