Oh my goodness I am so sorry I haven´t done this for ages! I cannot believe that it is already the last week in Temuco, I really don´t want to leave! The work is going great, although we´re working really hard this week to get everything done in time. If we finish everything, we will have sanded and re-varnsihed the church benches, painted the walls and window frames in the church, painted the walls and furniture in the children´s room and re-painted the "salon" (general meeting room). Apart from the sanding, I have really enjoyed the work, I think my favourite job was repainting the underside of the arch in the church, cause it involved being up a really high rickety ladder only being held by Sarah :)
Other than work we have also been able to get really involved with other things, for example every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon we have been going to help out at an Anglican school for deaf children. To be completely honest, I found it really hard because for one thing it was really difficult to communicate with the children, as I had to fist think what I wanted to say in Spanish, then try put it into sign, which I haven´t really got the hang of! It´s been a really good experience though, and the children were always really excited to see us so hopefully we were a help to the teachers.
We´ve been having Cueca (Chilean national dance) classes every Tuesday evening, which has been more fun for some of the team than others, but I personally really enjoyed it. It looks really silly...it´s supposed to be based on a cockrel trying to conquer a hen, and it really does look like that, but its been a really good way to bond with the church youth, as after the classes we usually go out for coffee (or in my case raspberry juice :) ) with them.
The last 2 Sundays I have had the opportunity to play in the worship band at church, which has been really good. For one thing it meant that I could have a bit of much needed time away from the rest of the team whilst I was at practices, and I´ve also learnt lots more guitar chords, and Spanish vocab.
After we leave Temuco we´ll be going on a team holiday to Valparaiso, and then we are all splitting up to go travelling in different places in South America. I will be travelling up Chile, and into Peru, keeping mostly to the coast. This week I´ve got to try and lighten my luggage because I´ve got to carry it on my back everywhere...prayer for that may be needed :P Or I could just stay in Temuco forever maybe...
Hope you are all doing ok, and in all seriousness I will return home soon, and I can´t wait to see everyone again :)
Laura xx
Tuesday 7 July 2009
Friday 5 June 2009
New Project
Hi everyone. We´ve now been 2 weeks in our new project, and I´m loving it :) Our new church is at the edge of the square in Temuco, so it´s pretty much in the centre of the centre. The house we are staying at is just across the road, and it´s alot bigger and not quite so basic which is great- there are no fleas or rats!
There are alot more youth at this church, and we are already making friends with them, which is really good for my Spanish. The church has more members than the one in Cajon, probably about 40 or 50.
On Saturday we all went and helped out at an English class that Mariela (a girl from church) takes. I´m looking forward to going along weekly to help out, because in many ways it´s like a backwards Spanish lesson for me. After the English class was the grupo de jovenes (youth group), and because it was Sarah´s birthday it was a social. They made us Choripanadas (like spicy hot dogs) , and most of the evening was spent trying to teach us the Cueca (Chilean national dance). It involves alot of weird foot stamping and "vuletas" (turning around your partner in a sort of figure of eight), and not surprisingly none of us were very good at it. It was a good way to break the ice with the youth though!
On Sunday we were taken to a football game (my first ever!) which was held in the Temuco stadium. Temuco were playing another city, and it was a draw 2-2. Other than that I can´t really tell you what went on; I was too distracted by the hilarious man who thought he could stand on the railings, but kept falling off.
Most of the week has been spent sanding benches in the church, ready for them to be re-varnished. This is quite a long tedious job, as each bench takes about 2 hours and there are over 20 of them. Yesterday we were given an electic sander to help speed up the process though, which was a novelty for the boys for about 5 minutes, until they realised it´s actually really heavy and hard to use! We´ve nearly finished them all now though which is good.
We didn´t work on Wednesday as we were taken to the Anglican church school in Chol Chol, where many members of our church work. I´m not sure how many pupils there were, but probably about 700, with an age range of 4-16. Many of the children board at the school because they come from poor families who cannot afford to keep them at home, or because their parents are not fit to look after them due to reasons like alchoholism. We spent the day at the school, visiting classes and allowing the children to ask us about ourselves and about England. I took the guitar, and every class we went to noticed and asked for us to sing a song for them in English! I think the highlight of the day was visiting the music class and hearing some kids play The Beatles on the Xylophone :)
Well I better go. I miss England loads and am looking forward to seeing you all again in August.
Laura
x
There are alot more youth at this church, and we are already making friends with them, which is really good for my Spanish. The church has more members than the one in Cajon, probably about 40 or 50.
On Saturday we all went and helped out at an English class that Mariela (a girl from church) takes. I´m looking forward to going along weekly to help out, because in many ways it´s like a backwards Spanish lesson for me. After the English class was the grupo de jovenes (youth group), and because it was Sarah´s birthday it was a social. They made us Choripanadas (like spicy hot dogs) , and most of the evening was spent trying to teach us the Cueca (Chilean national dance). It involves alot of weird foot stamping and "vuletas" (turning around your partner in a sort of figure of eight), and not surprisingly none of us were very good at it. It was a good way to break the ice with the youth though!
On Sunday we were taken to a football game (my first ever!) which was held in the Temuco stadium. Temuco were playing another city, and it was a draw 2-2. Other than that I can´t really tell you what went on; I was too distracted by the hilarious man who thought he could stand on the railings, but kept falling off.
Most of the week has been spent sanding benches in the church, ready for them to be re-varnished. This is quite a long tedious job, as each bench takes about 2 hours and there are over 20 of them. Yesterday we were given an electic sander to help speed up the process though, which was a novelty for the boys for about 5 minutes, until they realised it´s actually really heavy and hard to use! We´ve nearly finished them all now though which is good.
We didn´t work on Wednesday as we were taken to the Anglican church school in Chol Chol, where many members of our church work. I´m not sure how many pupils there were, but probably about 700, with an age range of 4-16. Many of the children board at the school because they come from poor families who cannot afford to keep them at home, or because their parents are not fit to look after them due to reasons like alchoholism. We spent the day at the school, visiting classes and allowing the children to ask us about ourselves and about England. I took the guitar, and every class we went to noticed and asked for us to sing a song for them in English! I think the highlight of the day was visiting the music class and hearing some kids play The Beatles on the Xylophone :)
Well I better go. I miss England loads and am looking forward to seeing you all again in August.
Laura
x
Wednesday 20 May 2009
Last Weeks in Cajon
¡Hola mis amigos, espero que esten bien! Sorry it´s been a while since I last did one of these- the last few weeks have been really busy. I´m writing to you from a youth hostel in a very rainy Bariloche, Argentina, where we are spending a few days to rest before our new project begins in the centre of Temuco. We had to leave Chile to renew our visas, which is the main reason we came here, but it´s also really exciting seeing another country in South America. Hopefully it will stop raining today as half the team are bike riding and the other half (including me) horse riding :)
Our penultimate week in Cajon was probably the busiest weeks in terms of building, as we were laying bricks. It was quite dangerous when the walls got too high for us to reach, as the scaffolding was only a thin plank of wood resting on more wood. I quite liked risking my life though, and by the end of the week we had built one side of the church!
The last week wasn´t a building week as there was heavy rain and when it rains in Chile, everything stops. We did however ask if there was anything else we could do, and on Wednesday we went to a hospital with a woman who voluntarily visits patients who ordinarily would have no one to visit them. Also on Friday the pastor arranged for us to lead a children´s event, which was held in a field. Which I found quite funny as the forecast was for rain...but thankfully the rain held off for most of the time. We played some team games with them, and then Simon and I did a puppet show for them :) Not only was it fun for the kids, but the event also got the mothers chatting together, some of which had never met before. The pastor wants it to be the beginning of many events like this, as it would be a great opportunity for evangelism.
On Friday evening a youth group from the centre of Temuco came to our church and led a service. They were all really musical, and the highlight for me was definitely singing with them afterwards. I don´t think I´ve ever heard so many spontaneous harmonies sung at once ! :)
Our last weekend in Cajon involved many, many goodbyes. On Saturday the church threw us a surprise leaving party, with quite possibly the biggest barbecue I have ever seen in my life- sooo much meat! So on Sunday we decided to invite the pastor´s family round for a typical English lunch. There were more goodbyes at our last service Sunday evening, and it was then that it really hit me how much our presence meant to the church these past few months.
I´ve learnt so much from the people of Cajon, about their way of life, but perhaps more strikingly about their love for God, and for his people. We were just 10 strangers (some more strange than others) from England, but from the word go they have treated us like their own children. If we needed something, they´d get it for us, if there was even a mention of one of us being ill they would do their best to fix it and I don´t think we were ever hungry. It´s definitely an attitude I´ll be taking home with me.
Our penultimate week in Cajon was probably the busiest weeks in terms of building, as we were laying bricks. It was quite dangerous when the walls got too high for us to reach, as the scaffolding was only a thin plank of wood resting on more wood. I quite liked risking my life though, and by the end of the week we had built one side of the church!
The last week wasn´t a building week as there was heavy rain and when it rains in Chile, everything stops. We did however ask if there was anything else we could do, and on Wednesday we went to a hospital with a woman who voluntarily visits patients who ordinarily would have no one to visit them. Also on Friday the pastor arranged for us to lead a children´s event, which was held in a field. Which I found quite funny as the forecast was for rain...but thankfully the rain held off for most of the time. We played some team games with them, and then Simon and I did a puppet show for them :) Not only was it fun for the kids, but the event also got the mothers chatting together, some of which had never met before. The pastor wants it to be the beginning of many events like this, as it would be a great opportunity for evangelism.
On Friday evening a youth group from the centre of Temuco came to our church and led a service. They were all really musical, and the highlight for me was definitely singing with them afterwards. I don´t think I´ve ever heard so many spontaneous harmonies sung at once ! :)
Our last weekend in Cajon involved many, many goodbyes. On Saturday the church threw us a surprise leaving party, with quite possibly the biggest barbecue I have ever seen in my life- sooo much meat! So on Sunday we decided to invite the pastor´s family round for a typical English lunch. There were more goodbyes at our last service Sunday evening, and it was then that it really hit me how much our presence meant to the church these past few months.
I´ve learnt so much from the people of Cajon, about their way of life, but perhaps more strikingly about their love for God, and for his people. We were just 10 strangers (some more strange than others) from England, but from the word go they have treated us like their own children. If we needed something, they´d get it for us, if there was even a mention of one of us being ill they would do their best to fix it and I don´t think we were ever hungry. It´s definitely an attitude I´ll be taking home with me.
Friday 1 May 2009
Birthday Week
Well this has been an eventful few weeks! I have lots to tell so I hope you stay with me and read till the end :) If you have any other questions please email me! The address I´m using is: laura.millyard@hotmail.co.uk
For my birthday we all went (apart from Matt) to a Marco Barrientos gig in Temuco. Marco Barrientos is a Latin American worship leader who is well known by most of the young people I have come across so far in Chile, so it was exciting to actually go and see him live. the gig was held in a school gym, which was a bit like an American basketball court, and we were in the stalls. Leo (the pastor´s nephew) came with us which was good cause we really wouldn´t have known the way otherwise! Once we were sat in the audience I started to feel less like an English tourist and more like a Chilean, which was great :) Everyone really enjoyed the evening, mostly because it was just so different to anything we´ve done so far in Chile, and it was so good to experience something of the Christian youth culture.
On the day of my birthday I was woken by Anna who was dressed like a birthday candle, which was odd...and the breakfast table was covered in gifts from the tacky present shop in Temuco. There were plastic flowers, millions of sweets, a pink pony complete with hairbrush, a family of squeaky hippos and a "te quiero" bear. I also had some clothes from Mum and Dad, which I really needed after living for 5 weeks with the same few clothes! It´s tradition in Chile to have a big cake, and then the birthday boy/girl has to take a big bite out of it, and as they do they get their head pushed in...so of course I had to inkeep with tradition! At church in the evening I had to stand at the front whilst everyone sung "Happy Birthday"...that was embarrasing.
Me and Sally made a campfire in the back garden on Saturday evening, which we were very pleased about, mostly because we did it without any help of the boys :)
On Wednesday evening we finally had a delivery of bricks to the building site!! We are just waiting for a man to come and check that the work we´ve done so far is safe (haha) before we start the brick laying work.
Yesterday (Thursday) I stayed in bed for most of the day as I hit my head on the edge of a table and made a dent in it! It was quite funny admittedly- I can´t believe how a knock on the head could make me feel so unwell, but it did. Ok, I´m exagerrating slightly with the dent....but it really hurts!
This evening the church are throwing a joint birthday party for Abner (Pastor´s son), Claire and me, so most people have gone into Temuco to buy things for it. Me and Antoine have stayed home to get a bit of peace and quiet...it´s nice living with lots of people my age, but sometimes I really crave alone time, so I´m glad I´ve got some today.
Ok, I feel I´ve written enough now! Please stay in touch. If you´d like to write (I love getting letters!) the address is :
C/O Ruth Gardener
Quetru 1044
Millaray
Temuco
Chile
For my birthday we all went (apart from Matt) to a Marco Barrientos gig in Temuco. Marco Barrientos is a Latin American worship leader who is well known by most of the young people I have come across so far in Chile, so it was exciting to actually go and see him live. the gig was held in a school gym, which was a bit like an American basketball court, and we were in the stalls. Leo (the pastor´s nephew) came with us which was good cause we really wouldn´t have known the way otherwise! Once we were sat in the audience I started to feel less like an English tourist and more like a Chilean, which was great :) Everyone really enjoyed the evening, mostly because it was just so different to anything we´ve done so far in Chile, and it was so good to experience something of the Christian youth culture.
On the day of my birthday I was woken by Anna who was dressed like a birthday candle, which was odd...and the breakfast table was covered in gifts from the tacky present shop in Temuco. There were plastic flowers, millions of sweets, a pink pony complete with hairbrush, a family of squeaky hippos and a "te quiero" bear. I also had some clothes from Mum and Dad, which I really needed after living for 5 weeks with the same few clothes! It´s tradition in Chile to have a big cake, and then the birthday boy/girl has to take a big bite out of it, and as they do they get their head pushed in...so of course I had to inkeep with tradition! At church in the evening I had to stand at the front whilst everyone sung "Happy Birthday"...that was embarrasing.
Me and Sally made a campfire in the back garden on Saturday evening, which we were very pleased about, mostly because we did it without any help of the boys :)
On Wednesday evening we finally had a delivery of bricks to the building site!! We are just waiting for a man to come and check that the work we´ve done so far is safe (haha) before we start the brick laying work.
Yesterday (Thursday) I stayed in bed for most of the day as I hit my head on the edge of a table and made a dent in it! It was quite funny admittedly- I can´t believe how a knock on the head could make me feel so unwell, but it did. Ok, I´m exagerrating slightly with the dent....but it really hurts!
This evening the church are throwing a joint birthday party for Abner (Pastor´s son), Claire and me, so most people have gone into Temuco to buy things for it. Me and Antoine have stayed home to get a bit of peace and quiet...it´s nice living with lots of people my age, but sometimes I really crave alone time, so I´m glad I´ve got some today.
Ok, I feel I´ve written enough now! Please stay in touch. If you´d like to write (I love getting letters!) the address is :
C/O Ruth Gardener
Quetru 1044
Millaray
Temuco
Chile
Tuesday 14 April 2009
Easter Weekend
Hola! Hope England (or wherever you may be) is treating you well. We have done quite alot of the building work now; the foundations have been dug, the metal stabalisers have been wired together and theyre now cemented into the foundations. We´ve also found the water pipe that we´ve been digiging for for ages :) The hole is so deep though, it covers me when I stand in it.
Last weekend was really busy, but it a good way definitely. On Friday evening we first went to see a choir from Santiago who were singing in Temuco, then went on to a vigil which was about half an hours drive from Temuco. We sang three songs for the congregation- one in English, one in Spanish and one in both! The loved it so much when we sang in Spanish. Afterwards I was bombarded with young people, who had realised I spoke Spanish and wanted to know everything about out team and why we are here. It probably was the most Spanish I´ve ever spoken since I´ve been here, but I didn´t feel our of my depth at all, which was great :) We left the vigil, after many photos, at gone 12, and got home just after 1am.
Given the late night before, you´d think that we´d have a lie in on Saturday, but apparently Chileans don´t need as much sleep as we do! We were woken at 8am for a trip to the beach, which was about a 3 hour drive away from Cajon. Yay! The yay was said sarcastically at first, but actually it turned out to be one of the best days I´ve had yet in Chile. The car journey was hilariously cramped as we had 4 people in the back of an estate car. I say hilariously cause if I didnñt laugh about it then I probably would have cried at how numb I was! After about 200 stops, some for snacks, one for a punture, some cause we were lost, we finally arrived at the beach. It´s a miracle we got there, what with 4 in the back and 3 in the front of the pastors car...
It was such a good day though- so refreshing to get out of Cajon and experience a bit more of Chile. The best part had to be when us girls went running around in the sea and getting all wet and sandy whilst the boys lay about on a rug, as far from the sea as they could get. They complained about the sea being too cold, and that it would be uncomfortable if they got sand everywhere. I just think they didnt want to get their hair wet.
Sunday we lay in, then did an Easter egg hunt, though the eggs aren´t as nice here as in England. At church we did a drama about getting sucked into sin, and Jesus paying the price and setting us free, which was greatly received by the congregation.
Today (Monday), we were surpised with a day off the building site, so we went for a walk and found the most gorgeous spot by the river. we had to walk through some dodgy looking underpasses under the motorway and clamber down a steep slope, but when we got there it was so worth it! Right now I´m sat on a rock listening to the water and watching a heron on the other side of the river. This is way better than where I last wrote my blog!
Today is actually Tuesday, but when I wrote the above it was Monday. After writing that, we went and got everyone else and went back to the river. I was determined to reach a big rock that was quite far into the river but hopping from other rocks, like stepping stones. I was so close, but when I was almost there I fell completely in...in my clothes. It was so embarrasing! Especially walking home dripping wet.
Well my hour is nearly up on this computer so I better go. Please keep in touch.
Laura x
Last weekend was really busy, but it a good way definitely. On Friday evening we first went to see a choir from Santiago who were singing in Temuco, then went on to a vigil which was about half an hours drive from Temuco. We sang three songs for the congregation- one in English, one in Spanish and one in both! The loved it so much when we sang in Spanish. Afterwards I was bombarded with young people, who had realised I spoke Spanish and wanted to know everything about out team and why we are here. It probably was the most Spanish I´ve ever spoken since I´ve been here, but I didn´t feel our of my depth at all, which was great :) We left the vigil, after many photos, at gone 12, and got home just after 1am.
Given the late night before, you´d think that we´d have a lie in on Saturday, but apparently Chileans don´t need as much sleep as we do! We were woken at 8am for a trip to the beach, which was about a 3 hour drive away from Cajon. Yay! The yay was said sarcastically at first, but actually it turned out to be one of the best days I´ve had yet in Chile. The car journey was hilariously cramped as we had 4 people in the back of an estate car. I say hilariously cause if I didnñt laugh about it then I probably would have cried at how numb I was! After about 200 stops, some for snacks, one for a punture, some cause we were lost, we finally arrived at the beach. It´s a miracle we got there, what with 4 in the back and 3 in the front of the pastors car...
It was such a good day though- so refreshing to get out of Cajon and experience a bit more of Chile. The best part had to be when us girls went running around in the sea and getting all wet and sandy whilst the boys lay about on a rug, as far from the sea as they could get. They complained about the sea being too cold, and that it would be uncomfortable if they got sand everywhere. I just think they didnt want to get their hair wet.
Sunday we lay in, then did an Easter egg hunt, though the eggs aren´t as nice here as in England. At church we did a drama about getting sucked into sin, and Jesus paying the price and setting us free, which was greatly received by the congregation.
Today (Monday), we were surpised with a day off the building site, so we went for a walk and found the most gorgeous spot by the river. we had to walk through some dodgy looking underpasses under the motorway and clamber down a steep slope, but when we got there it was so worth it! Right now I´m sat on a rock listening to the water and watching a heron on the other side of the river. This is way better than where I last wrote my blog!
Today is actually Tuesday, but when I wrote the above it was Monday. After writing that, we went and got everyone else and went back to the river. I was determined to reach a big rock that was quite far into the river but hopping from other rocks, like stepping stones. I was so close, but when I was almost there I fell completely in...in my clothes. It was so embarrasing! Especially walking home dripping wet.
Well my hour is nearly up on this computer so I better go. Please keep in touch.
Laura x
Wednesday 1 April 2009
Finally Here!!
Hello friends, family, whoever may be reading this! I know it´s been ages since I first posted on here but hopefully it will be weekly now that I´ve got into a bit of a routine. Well, I say routine, but actually everything is pretty relaxed here- I don´t think Chileans understand what routine is!
Last week I tried to write but my hour at the internet shack (it really is a shack) didn´t really give me enough time, especially as half an hour into it my computer crashed, much to the internet man´s amusement! It was just as I was about to send an update to church as well, so then I spent most of my remaining time time doing that again. That´s why now I´m writing my blog on paper first and then just typing them out later.
Right now I´m in our little ´garden´, which is a rectangle of bare earth with a few little trees and a rotting shed, and I´m accompanied by Gerald the horse and a cat that we haven´t named yet. Random animals are pretty usual in these parts! Next door has lent us 3 cats because our shack (yes, shacks are the only way they can be described) has a bit of a vermin problem... :S As for the horse, well I have no idea! I think it belongs to one of the other residents.
So far the garden has been the only place I can be completely by myself, and it´s SO refreshing. It´s a beautiful day as well- there are no clouds in the sky ans it´s definitely suncream weather. SO much for it being Chilean autumn! I can´t imagine how hot sumer must be!
So....Chile Chile Chile, what else shall I tell you...there´s just so much to tell, I don´t really know where to begin. We´ve been here just over a week and it´s already beginning to feel like home. Although I´m totally overwhelmed by the new culture, I also feel like there´s no place I´d rather be right now. We have been made to feel so welcome here- the people from the church we are working with are so loving, they treat us just like family. For example, when we got off the bus in Cajon at some silly hour after our 37 hour journey, the whole church was there to greet us, and they had prepared a meal for us at our house! And anytime we need anything, they´ve managed to get it for us, sometimes even before we´ve finished asking them. Even though they don´t have much themselves, they want to provide us with as much as they can, because they say we´ve been such a blessing to them in building their new church.
Oh yeh...building. It´s quite hard work! There´s not alot to do at the moment because we just don´t have all the materials, but what we can do, we get on with doing. So far, we´ve dug some trenches, wired some metal rods together, and cememnted the rods into the trenches. I don´t know alot about building, so I´m just doing as I´m told and hoping I´m getting it right! Most of the time it´s been fine though. It´s amazing how much we´ve managed to do in such a short time, actually.
I´m not going to lie, I do miss England. I miss my bed! A matresss and a sleeping bag is comfy, but just not quite the same...and there is no space for anything in the girls´ bedroom, we´re all just living out of our bags. Clothes avalanches are becoming a regular ocurance :P I have managed to put up some nails to hang our towells and coats on though (go me :D ) Also living in a team is quite challenging- it´s hard to get real alone time, and I´m missing having chats with people who know me properly. But we as a team are getting closer every day, especially us girls, so I think it will get easier in time.
I hope you are all ok. Hopefully I will update soon!!
Dios te bendiga
Laura
xxx
Last week I tried to write but my hour at the internet shack (it really is a shack) didn´t really give me enough time, especially as half an hour into it my computer crashed, much to the internet man´s amusement! It was just as I was about to send an update to church as well, so then I spent most of my remaining time time doing that again. That´s why now I´m writing my blog on paper first and then just typing them out later.
Right now I´m in our little ´garden´, which is a rectangle of bare earth with a few little trees and a rotting shed, and I´m accompanied by Gerald the horse and a cat that we haven´t named yet. Random animals are pretty usual in these parts! Next door has lent us 3 cats because our shack (yes, shacks are the only way they can be described) has a bit of a vermin problem... :S As for the horse, well I have no idea! I think it belongs to one of the other residents.
So far the garden has been the only place I can be completely by myself, and it´s SO refreshing. It´s a beautiful day as well- there are no clouds in the sky ans it´s definitely suncream weather. SO much for it being Chilean autumn! I can´t imagine how hot sumer must be!
So....Chile Chile Chile, what else shall I tell you...there´s just so much to tell, I don´t really know where to begin. We´ve been here just over a week and it´s already beginning to feel like home. Although I´m totally overwhelmed by the new culture, I also feel like there´s no place I´d rather be right now. We have been made to feel so welcome here- the people from the church we are working with are so loving, they treat us just like family. For example, when we got off the bus in Cajon at some silly hour after our 37 hour journey, the whole church was there to greet us, and they had prepared a meal for us at our house! And anytime we need anything, they´ve managed to get it for us, sometimes even before we´ve finished asking them. Even though they don´t have much themselves, they want to provide us with as much as they can, because they say we´ve been such a blessing to them in building their new church.
Oh yeh...building. It´s quite hard work! There´s not alot to do at the moment because we just don´t have all the materials, but what we can do, we get on with doing. So far, we´ve dug some trenches, wired some metal rods together, and cememnted the rods into the trenches. I don´t know alot about building, so I´m just doing as I´m told and hoping I´m getting it right! Most of the time it´s been fine though. It´s amazing how much we´ve managed to do in such a short time, actually.
I´m not going to lie, I do miss England. I miss my bed! A matresss and a sleeping bag is comfy, but just not quite the same...and there is no space for anything in the girls´ bedroom, we´re all just living out of our bags. Clothes avalanches are becoming a regular ocurance :P I have managed to put up some nails to hang our towells and coats on though (go me :D ) Also living in a team is quite challenging- it´s hard to get real alone time, and I´m missing having chats with people who know me properly. But we as a team are getting closer every day, especially us girls, so I think it will get easier in time.
I hope you are all ok. Hopefully I will update soon!!
Dios te bendiga
Laura
xxx
Tuesday 17 March 2009
Final Preparations
Hello and welcome to my blog, hopefully it will be updated lots whilst I'm in Chile so you can have a good idea of what I'm up to!
With just over two days to go, it's hard to decribe my feelings at the moment. Obviously I'm excited, but with the excitement is anxiety and a general 'freaking out' sort of feeling! Mostly that's because of the packing situation- right now I should really be packing but I'm so worried that I'm not gonna fit everything in so I've kind of been putting it off. It is the next item on my mental to-do list though. Actually it's the only item left on my to-do list, cause 'start a blog' was the second to last, so really I have no excuses.
I'd better stop putting it off any longer. Hopefully next time I write i will have finished the packing!
Con Cariño,
Laura
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With just over two days to go, it's hard to decribe my feelings at the moment. Obviously I'm excited, but with the excitement is anxiety and a general 'freaking out' sort of feeling! Mostly that's because of the packing situation- right now I should really be packing but I'm so worried that I'm not gonna fit everything in so I've kind of been putting it off. It is the next item on my mental to-do list though. Actually it's the only item left on my to-do list, cause 'start a blog' was the second to last, so really I have no excuses.
I'd better stop putting it off any longer. Hopefully next time I write i will have finished the packing!
Con Cariño,
Laura
x
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