Rob's Rave and Silvina's Stories Living life at the end of the world
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Where is Ushuaia?
Ushuaia is known as being the “End of the World” and the southernmost city in the world. So where is it? This video gives you a look at not only where Ushuaia is in the world, but also what it is like during summer days.
Los Cambios de 2010
El primer cambio es mudarme El segundo cambio requiere residencia permanente en la Argentina Y el ̼ltimo cambio es acerca de familia Ushuaia base de JUCUM Рel lugar a donde pronto me voy a mudar.
…HabÃa estado planeando ayudar en la base de JUCUM Ushuaia con su página web y EDE de octubre 2009, pero cuando los planes de ellos cambiaron, asà también los mÃos. … Asà que, después de enamorarme con esta mujercita por quien era ella por el teléfono, ya era tiempo a visitarla para ver si las cosas entre nosotros iban a cambiar o no.
The Changes of 2010
What I am about to tell you is something that I probably should have told you a while back. Not that it really affects your life in any way greatly, if at all. It does affect my life however, and for me the changes that it is about to bring will most certainly be permanent. [...]
Church and Buildings
Today, I wrestled with a powerpoint in the house for the morning. The electrical tubing in the concrete wall ended inside the wall and it took a while to work this out. Jorge and Isa Rios and Miguel and Olga Montt both arrived with their families in their cars. They had come from Puerto Madryn [...]
Taking the Right Step
Today was a stair day. The team went down to the local steps that climb from one neighbourhood to the next, with over 300 steps in all, to clean them up. I ended up welding a broken step in the base that had cracked, using a borrowed welder and a lot of luck. It has [...]
Clowning Around
Down in the centre of town, some of our team dressed up as clowns to help with some of their varied presentations of the gospel to the people in the Civic Centre. There were skits, music, and some funny acts all put together for the people who were present. I was busy working in the [...]
Fixing the Base
One of the things that all YWAM bases end up needing is maintenance. So today was a day dedicated to doing some of the very necessary maintenance tasks around the place. The rock pathway that had been laid two years ago was now covered over by grass and needed re-laying. The guys headed outside to [...]
Sending Them Off
The team head off today to go evangelising in the city. They will be visiting people in the hospital also, as many there receive no visitors and so they go to spend time talking with and listening to the people who are in the beds. After this they spend a time walking around the city [...]
Free Day
Today was our free day. We get up early to head over to the YWAM base where we will be staying for the next week and discover that one of our co-workers from Puerto Madryn has arrived in Bariloche. He was still asleep but we went and woke him up in a very friendly fashion. [...]
Outreach – Bariloche Day 6
Today is our last day in the church that has hosted us for the last week. After a later start to the day, I head out with the pastor to the girl’s house. Just near here are hundreds of apartments in high-rise complexes. With a lot of robbery and violence in these complexes, we walked [...]
Outreach – Bariloche Day 5
After the new year break, we are now back in the church again, working as much as we can. Today most of the team helped out in the kitchen to make and sell empanadas, a specialty similar to a meat pie but much smaller, very common in Argentina. Miguel and I helped the pastor move [...]
New Year’s Day 2010
With a free day, we all get off to a lazy start. This is also partly due to the very late night we had last night while welcoming in the new year. By the time we eat lunch, it is past 2pm, and we have a new commitment awaiting us. We had all agreed to [...]
New Years Eve
New Year’s Eve is a time to celebrate with friends and family. We left our church location this morning to come and spend the time here in the YWAM base in Bariloche, with friends. This had a secondary benefit of allowing the pastor and his family to get together without worrying about us being present [...]
Outreach – Bariloche Day 4
Today we climb a mountain. The idea was to reach the top, but after a late night last night, and with a very late start to the day, our chances were diminishing rapidly. Add to this a very large group of people, and you start moving quite slowly, according to the abilities of the weaker [...]
Outreach – Bariloche Day 3
Today I wake with one eye stuck closed. After washing it with water and heading to the doctors I am informed that it is conjunctivitis, a common ailment here often contracted through dust entering the eye. Unfortunately, all of the pharmacies are too far away to get the needed eye drops, so I continue the [...]
Outreach – Bariloche Day 2
Our second day is quite different, and we spend the morning building brick walls, cooking bread and gnocchi for lunch. All of us get to do something that we have not done before, and have fun doing it too. After lunch we then put on multiple layers of jackets for the cold and the rain [...]
Outreach – Bariloche Day 1
On the 26th of December, Boxing Day, we gathered our team together and heading off on an 18 hour bus journey from Puerto Madryn to Bariloche. Upon arriving in Bariloche, we head out to the church with which we will be working for the next week. Our outreaches tend to be organised per week more [...]
Christmas Night
In Argentina, it is the night before Christmas that is celebrated. Everybody gets together to enjoy the night with a large meal and times of reflection until midnight when we all take hold of our glass and toast to Christmas and celebrate this day. When the next day comes, most are either sleeping, or spend [...]
Puerto Madryn from Afar
It was a sunny day that I decided to head out to the hills around our YWAM base in the Quintas, an area outside of Puerto Madryn city. Here are some photos that show just where the Quintas are located and some of the environs around this city that I have called home for almost [...]
Football Championship
Every year our YWAM base now hosts a football (soccer) championship between all of the churches of Puerto Madryn. Last year our YWAM team achieved third place. This year we did not even make a position, but it was a fun game and we all had a lot of fun. Here are some photos of [...]
Scorpion under my pillow
That is a rather unusual sounding exclamation, but it is exactly what happened to one of our workers here in YWAM Puerto Madryn. Actually, finding a scorpion at all is rather uncommon here, so when he found one underneath his pillow we were all quite concerned. However, in my four years of living here this [...]
Farewell to Palma Real
Today we said goodbye to a team of four workers from our YWAM base. They are heading into the jungle in the south of Peru for six months, to relieve a missionary couple there who have not had a rest for over five years. Our team will also be working towards starting new ministries and [...]
Pedro and Yanina’s Wedding
A couple from Puerto Madryn had become good friends of ours, and through us they became good friends of many in YWAM Puerto Madryn. As a result, when they decided to get married they wanted to get married here on our YWAM base. So we decorated everything and prepared it for the happy couple, and [...]
A Day of Duties
Every day everybody on the YWAM base heads out to do some work around the place to help maintain the place. What follows are some photos of some of the things that we have been up to lately… Brad and Jake fixing a crack in the roof with tar-strip