Team 2 arrived yesterday and we’ve been touring around some of the villages where we’ll be working this morning and they’ve just got a bit of time for a swim now before we organise any donations and plan our children’s programme this afternoon (I get the impression most of them are dreading the drama! We’ll soon knock that out of them!!!)! But I’m really looking forward to getting to know this team and watch them, hopefully(!), flourish in this beautiful country of flourishing! So sorry for the radio silence over the last week. My week to myself ended up not being particularly interesting. I went out to a couple of villages and played with a few kids; went up the cable car up the Mount de Isabel de Torres; oh - and went body-boarding in the WAVY sea of Cabarete! I have to admit, that was SO MUCH MORE FUN than in England, with warm waves crashing over every few seconds and a beautiful display of kite-surfers, wind-surfers and paddle-boarders just behind you! I enjoyed that a lot!!! :-D There were also a few of days where I did very little, as my laptop threw a tantrum (and then miraculously started working again a few days later! ¡ALABA!*), and I realised I depend on it A LOT in my free time… By the second day of this technological drought, I had come to the conclusion that if the vast majority of people here could have fun without any technology at all, then I certainly could too! So I jammed on the guitar and painted a picture! Hahaha! Not that most people here have guitars or paiting stuff lying around either, but… ah well!
So I had a good and restful week, even if there wasn’t much to report back about it! Hope you all had a good week too! *’Alaba’ means ‘praise’, and just shouting out this word has become one of the most recent catchphrases of our Translator! He’s a funny man!!!
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Ruth Haslam
24/10/2015 19:13:55
Bit of a change from Rutland Water! Not jealous at all.
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Rebekah Blyth (Moderator)
24/10/2015 19:14:24
Hahaha!!! Yeah! I'm hoping to get some surfing in at some point on one of the time-off weeks too! A guy from church does a lot of 'Christians in Surfing' stuff or something, so hopefully that would make for the perfect way to spend a day here at some point! :-D
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