Okay, man alive... time seems to pass so quickly when it comes to writing on here, so I´m gonna do another overview of the last bit of time at our first project!
20th Apr - We went off to a village called Haulpin... although actually ended up near a place called Tolten. After a long journey filled with bits of sleep and getting woken up by rather large chileans knocking my arm off the arm rest!! :P Long drop toilet again :P We went to a local boarding school, did a little presentation to them, then drove to another school where we stayed for one night - all the girls cramped into one room!
21st Apr - Dave´s birthday! We did an assembly in the school that we stayed in and then packed up our things and moved back to the previous school as we´d be staying there the rest of the weekend! We did a few bits of shopping and visited a new church (where we prayed) and a lady in the village (who we prayed with) and then we went to a radio station where Jonny and Emily and Pastor chatted for a bit, until there was a power cut!!! Everything was in the dark for the rest of the night!!
22nd Apr - 3 of the boys went off the help fix some electrics at a local house, while the rest of us tidied the school and made some posters to go up. And generally had a restful afternoon as at 9.30pm we went down to the church for the start of the 8 hour service... which turned out to be nine hours!!! So at 7am we crawled into bed!!! It was a good service though, full of praise and prayer!
23rd Apr - after 5 hours sleep we were all up and heading to the coast, climbed some rocks, found some weird jellyfish things that apparently kill you, ate some seaweed, and saw some of the new town, as the old town had been devestated in the tsunami last year. There´s still evidence of it in a grove of trees were some are upside down the ground, with their roots looking like branches!! Half the team then went to be on the radio again for an hour, while myself and few others went to a local lady´s house to pray with her.
24th Apr - we got up early and set off back to Temuco, where the whole church was waiting to have lunch with us - asado disco and lots of salads and meat!! We got settled back in and then has another service at Puntilla, all about the message of the cross.
25th Apr - Domestic Day!! Rocky and I were on domestics and cooked some good old porridge for breakfast!! mmmm. The guys all went off to a school to work with some kids, while Rocky and I cleaned and prepped an awesome vegetable filled lunch! We all went out to celebrate Dave´s birthday again at a restuarant called Boca de Lobo in the evening - there was so much meat is was crazy! This is also the day I discovered Turkey Hill Peanut Butter Ripple ice-cream... it was magical!
26th Apr - We went to a girls school today to spend a class with them (very good spanish practice) and all the girls went gah gah for the blonde boys in the team! We came back did the first day of the kids club, but not a lot turned up as it was the first day.
27th Apr - we went again to the same school as yesterday and had a really good time with them all. We got to see where the girls stay and gave us a bit of an insight into their lives. Jonny also got given a white bear by one of the girls... manly. We had a good plan for the kids club, and even though it was raining, we got a good number who came and played games and made some bits and pieces and took home the message of God coming to be their friend.
28th Apr - Some of us popped round to the nursery next door to play with the kids - absolutely MENTAL! loads of running and playing with a parachute but well fun!! We planned the kids club and ran it a more outside coz the weather was better. Got a bit crazy at some points, but we had some good convos too. Went over to Yasmina´s in the evening and wacthed a film and got even beautiful momentos from her and her family!
29th Apr - Today we did a lot of cleaning in prep for leaving to go to Argentina, as well as planning and running the final day of the kids club! We made a load of goodie bags up to give out to the kids filled with sweeties and toys and paper and pens and teddies and all kinds of stuff, so that we could leave them with a present from us. The kids club went really well, and it was actually really sad to be saying good bye! On another note... Rocky and I made apple crumble in the little electric oven and it was wicked! LOL!
We then set off for Bariloche in Argentina....
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