Ben's Post

Well that’s it!!! All over. Had an AWESOME time here!! The people were amazing and just so friendly and open! Campamento was so much fun and I learned a lot from just watching how everyone behaved!!! We made some really good friends, it was incredibly sad to leave them, especially when they told me I had to go back next year!!!
I would love to go back next year but can’t! (Silly school).
We played a lot of football at the camp. I was amazing!!! Unstoppable, unless it was the goal post!!!! But we found that despite the language problems we could still have fun and communicate! I’m also very grateful for everyone who translated for us. With out them we would have been stuck!!

Betty's Post

We’ve be super busy since the last time I wrote on the blog in Porte Madryn. The Campamento was amazing. We met so many wonderful people who we’re welcoming, kind and friendly. Over the week although my spoken Spanish didn’t really improve I found it easier to understand what was being said much better. Isn’t the human mind an amazing thing?
It was an incredible experience to be in a group of people, who were all there for the same reason, united through Christ, and it didn’t matter where we came from, what our home situations were or even, thank goodness for us poor Spanish speakers, what language we spoke.
We have all learnt from the experience and have talked at great length about how we can share our experiences with the people we know back home.
On a lighter note, Ben may have converted to the Argentinean way of life; he even wants to bring Mate to his Geology lessons. I think I can speak for all of us when I say that we will all miss the lovely people we have met and the beautiful places we have seen.
Muchas Gracias Amigos, we had a wonderful time and will miss you all.
Asta Pronto amigos en Grand Britannia, we are now on our way back home.

Betty

Joe's Post

Well the camp is now over we are all very tired but we have had an Amazing time.

The camp was very similar to those in the UK just in Spanish however the kids were very helpful in translating for us.
We felt very welcome at the camp and quickly made lots of friends. When we arrived the camp had started and we were straight into the main meeting telling them who we are and what we do. in Spanish.
One of the first things we did after this meeting was play football which sounds fairly normal but this was actually one of the main ice breakers football those first few games of footie were good fun and very important
The theme was la paz or the peace we had bible studies and talks on this subject in the drama group we did dramas on peace in the home, church and streets these we very good fun with a very good message in them.

Nathan´s blog

Hola amigos! Nathan here our trip is almost at an end, we´re sitting in Buenos Aires airport waiting to board the plain home. And it deffinatly has been a trip of a life time, but this is only the begining! we´ve seen desert, we´ve seen mountains most importently we´ve seen cows and tractors! but more importently we´ve met people and shared stories, we´ve been challanged and humbeled. The people over here have been spot on they´ve looked after us well and taught us so much. we´ve had laughs, we´ve had tears and we´ve had ice cream! but most importent we´ve made friends. the trip is coming to an end but the adventure carries on!
Adios

Bens post 2

so the weather is lovely here, must be around 30 ish!!!! so yeh we will all stand out with our awsome tans! As you probably saw on Carls blog, i said that i was going to stop eating!!!!!! its true!!! i stopped eating at an all you can eat resturaunt!!!
Oh well, were off to campamento now. Should be an interesting week!!! Woo

About to go to Campamento

We have a first - you could say the earth shook at this comment! Sitting at the table with Ben last night, he uttered the words..."y'know I could eat more, I'm not hungry...but I could eat more...but I think I'll stop"

We had a sunny day in Puerto Madryn and people caught up on some sleep, we're getting our clothes washed and making final prep to go to the camp this morning.

We have a bit of a trek to get there, 2 buses and a taxi - I guess we're probably going to get there late!

Please pray for us, this week the key challenges will be the young people mingling, getting across language barriers and having the pace to keep up with the camp.

We have tried to upload some pics, but the connection has been too slow!!!! Will try again some time!

God bless and see you all soon

Carl

Hi from Betty

Hello to everyone back in England.
We´re currently in Madarin taking some time off after a very long, that´s 13 hour, bus trip. Not a patch, though, on our first journey by bus from B.A. to Baraloche which was 24 hours long! The mountains around Baraloche were beautiful and we´ve all got lots of pictures to show you when we get back. I´ve also got a few rock samples as well but don´t worry, not enough that´ll take me over the baggage weight limit!
On Saturday we went walking with a group of people we´d met the day before at the Cowen´s. It was really nice, especially the warm whether, even if the walk was 24km long (I don´t do long walks usually). Everyone we´ve met has be very welcoming also they´ve been very understanding about our language limitations which is very, very, very, very (!) kind of them.
Bye bye for now.
Betty

Nathan´s Post

How do Nathan here, so far so good getting into the swing of things now, eating sweet pasterys for breakfast, and not sitting down for supper before 10.30 at night! Did have one scary moment on the first night i ordered a salad for supper, but i´m glad to report that normal service has been resumed and i´m back to eating propper food (no more salads)! the trip is spot on done a lot of travelling just been on a bus for 13 hours travelling from Baralochie thats a short trip! The people here are really nice and are making us feel very welcome. our next stop is the camp a mento looking forward to it, hope to improve on my spanish. The weather here is fairly warm suposed to get into the mid 30s! The team is getting on well altho the lack of sleep etc is making people do all sorts of interesting things, but you no what they say... what goes on in Argentina stays in Argentina!! laughs are plenty!! pñenty stories to come home with.
Adios amegos.

Bens blog

The flight was very long but i slept for most of it! Buenos aires was a very nice place, the food was very good, especialy the steak. We met Alfredo who showed us round Buenos Aires and took us to a very nice wee resturaunt.
The bus ride to Bariloche was about 22 hours, with a two hour breakdown. It was very comfy with folding seats. Bariloche was very nice and the people were very friendly and the food was even better.

Joes blog

In buenos Aires i enjoyed walking round the city and seeing the s ites, i also enjoyed eating the food.
in barolochie we went on a 24km walk which was verry good with some verry good views. i am enjoying the food and also getting a good sun tan.

In Bariloche

We have an hour before we get picked up to go to the bus station, so a few of us are going to add our blogs.

This is Carl - Up until now we've had a good time. There are 2 key challenges; energy and language!

Yesterday we took part in a 24km walk and have all ended up a bit redder - hopefully, the suburn will fade to a tan!

The bus journey from Buenos Aires to Bariloche was a total of 23 hours (after stopping to have the bus repaired for 2 hours)

We've seen some great sights and met some great people so far - next stop Puerto Madryn and then Campamento!