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November 27, 2007
A Busy and Dusty Road
Riding home from the city is fine during calm days and when there is not a lot of traffic. Being in such a dry desert zone, dust is a real problem, and the moment a car passes by on a dirt road, huge clouds of dust swirl up behind it. The…
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November 26, 2007
The Frustration of Christmas in Customs
I am angry, annoyed, and frustrated. If I could be more things then I would be too. It is not as if I didn’t know… nor that I shouldn’t have been aware of what was going to happen. Still, each time it drives me crazy. Archaic laws from a…
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November 23, 2007
Felling Trees by Hand and Its Dangers
Nope I am not talking about using an axe to fell the trees although we did use one afterwards to chop it up. What I am talking about is getting a bunch of guys on the end of a rope that we have tied to a tree and then by brute force…
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November 22, 2007
Light the Fire Conference
It was a great day full of sun and a gentle breeze. Perfect for the long walk to town to get to the bus terminal. There were 24 of us altogether but before long we were pretty spread out along the road according to walking speeds and…
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November 19, 2007
Indecision and Thornbushes
It was quite an unstable situation to have a huge bag of washing on my back and my backpack hung around my neck as I tried to ride down a narrow track hedged in on both sides by gnarly thorn bushes. I had been down this track many times…
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November 18, 2007
Fiambre Man
Fiambre is the Spanish name for everything to do with sandwiches such as salamis and cheeses. One of the more favoured snacks here in Argentina is salami and cheese on bread and it is one that I too have grown to really enjoy.
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November 4, 2007
Ricky and Rosy Married
Well here I am in Santiago again. It seems that in the last few months I have been here a lot… if you count three times as a lot.
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October 29, 2007
My Dad is the Ex-President and my mum is the New President
Well, this was one of the articles in the local paper after Cristina Kirchner won a clear victory as the new president of Argentina yesterday. The article spoke from the perspective of her daughter, as Cristina has just taken the…
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October 22, 2007
Lazy Day at the Beach
Today was a lazy day at the beach. Nothing much to do except watch the little sailing boats in their regatta and find dead soccerballs in the sand.
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October 21, 2007
Soccer Tournament
In the YWAM base we have a need for new musical instruments in the worship ministry team. The gear that they have is mostly broken and repaired and broken again and repaired again. It has gotten to the point that they cannot depend upon…
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