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  1. December 25, 2009

    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…

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  2. December 21, 2009

    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…

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  3. December 19, 2009

    Bonafide

    Bonafide is a coffee shop in Puerto Madryn where, before we connected internet in our YWAM base, I spent most of every day building websites and communicating with other YWAM bases around Argentina. In fact, I visited this place so much…

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  4. December 9, 2009

    Cruise Ship Season Starts Again

    Puerto Madryn is one of the main stops on the Cruise Ship ports. Every summer we receive dozens of these huge ships, filled with tourists who then flood our town for the day before re-boarding and heading off to another destination. The…

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  5. December 8, 2009

    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…

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  6. December 6, 2009

    Going Walkabout

    One day I decided to go for a wander around the local area. What I found was a local dry creek with steep edges. It seems unusual that in a place where it hardly rains there would be a creek that looks like huge amounts of water had passed…

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  7. December 4, 2009

    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…

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  8. December 3, 2009

    Busted Bike

    Today I tried to jump my bike over the gutter onto the footpath. I almost made it… but I didn’t. The back wheel landed on the sharp edge of the gutter and left me with a square rim. Some stomping on my wheel, removing the brakes, and…

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  9. November 30, 2009

    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…

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  10. November 27, 2009

    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…

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