venture to new places

the internet has been having issues for days so, again, i shall do a quick review of the past few days..

sunday (the 17th)
the group left after church.. kate, laurin, meghan (laurin’s friend), and i got moto’s to rachel’s art co-op in ascencion (a small village). rachel is a really fun canadian girl who has lived here for about 4 years. to help about 20 women have employment and avoid prostitution, she teaches them crafts and they sell it in this co-op store as their source of income. pretty sweet.. rachel gave us a ride to the highway where we caught public to the house. that night we had ladies night and all went to dinner at taste!

monday (the 18th)
we had a day off- ADVENTURE DAY for me, robin, and anne!! anne and robin both had missions (buy a pot for anne’s plant and check out the chair selection for robin) and, well, i was an accomplice. we went to a cool nursery that felt like a jungle, robin and anne discovered a dog (we named it boris), and we found a fish pond with turtles. discovery of the day: fish don’t eat peanuts BUT they will put them in their mouths and spit them right back out- yes this is QUITE amusing. at the chair store we watched chickens walk all over the furniture and thought anne was kidnapped at one point (robin and i went searching and a man told us where the white girl we were looking for went- to get water- whew!). after turning down a $300 chair, we went to sosua and EXPLORED!! we drove around a bit, found some sweet resorts that we explored with the guard’s permission, ate some amazing fajitas at a restaurant where they had the olympics playing!! i looooove watching and that was the first i have seen bc we have no tv. ahhh.. we met the other girls at the grocery store and gave them a ride back home. that night we had prayer/coffee/dessert time at the girl’s apt in montellano. it was semi-themed as a reflection time for all the staff that was leaving. it was a truly amazing time of prayer and just being all together.
**to see pictures, you should check out robin's blog!!

tuesday (the 19th)
as you might have noticed from the other blogs, i hadn’t really spent much time alone or allowed myself to really rest since i'd arrived. this was day 2 of our days off and everyone had a bunch of things they were doing. i planned on going to santiago (about 1.5 hrs away) with robin and jennie to pick up our mail and meeting camille in chichigua but nothing worked out (plane wasn’t coming in bc of the tropical storm).. and God totally knew i needed that time. after my run i was able to skype with abbi FINALLY which was awesome. i’d really been needing to talk to her and had been really anxious about my sister so she was a huge blessing bc she called her for me. [court has been in the sudan since aug 1st and I hadn’t heard whether or not the group had made it back. there were a lot of nerves from everyone about the trip BUT God brought them back safely ☺] it’s hard not being able to just pick up a phone and call people but everything is ok. i spent the day relaxing, putting pictures up, and hanging out with the storms (the family staying here right now). that night we all went out for a goodbye dinner for the staff leaving.