Author: Adventures

  If you personally know me, you probably already know that I spent 5 years working at camps. I started working at an Outdoor School (AKA Science Camp) back in September of 2003 as a camp counselor. As a camp counselor, I spent 24 hours per day / 5 days a week just pouring into the lives of the children that were entrusted to me. I later became a Naturalist at the Outdoor School, teaching 5th and 6th graders about Environmental Education along with other parts of Science. I have also worked for the Christian camp that is on the same property. I worked my first...

I post this blog out of my great love for Calie Flynn and in honor of the humor of translation.   We were at a youth servie at the little church in Kara, Kara on Saturday night, and Calie, out of her great love for me, was translating the sermon.  We were sitting to the side of the santuary (I use the term loosely), and the service had been fairly long.  The pastor was preaching on “appropriate dating” and such.  It was at the height of the sermon.  The pastor had his serious preaching voice on.  Everyone was intensly listening. ...

   Bolivia Has A Navy? As we were on our way to the internet today Margaret was filling our minds with random facts and trivia information and one of them was… ¨Did you know Bolivia has a Navy?¨ This fact may not seem that dramatic but let me remind you that Bolivia is a completely land-locked country… and so their Navy is located in the only major body of water Bolivia has Lake Titicaca. What?… This does not make sense to me… As I was reflecting on how random and pointless a Navy is for a completely land-locked country I realized how many things...

As I have written about recently, in Bolivia, I look like an alien.  A mixture between the height and the long blonde hair make me stick out like a sore thumb wherever we go, but in the orphanages and schools that we visit, the children love it.  You can hear the cries from a mile, “Bonita! Bonita! Bonita!”  (which means pretty in Spanish) and they run up start petting my head.  Zulma, a thirteen year old girl from La Casa, asked if she could have one of my hairs this last week, and I gladly gave her one.  The next day when we returned,...

Although we have only been in Bolivia for three weeks I have already fallen head over heals for the people, culture, and language. So often we use the phrase, “God put Bolivia on my heart,” but God used a more literal example on me. Last Saturday we spent our morning at a boy’s orphanage in a rural area. We shared a bible story, sang songs, a short skit and after we challenged them to a soccer match. Long story short, we got our butts handed to us, but one particular boy did leave a serious impression on me. LITERALLY! He was kicking at the ball and at the time it seemed...

If there were a couple words to describe week 4 they would be:  awesomegrowthwithGod — all shoved together because I feel as though I have been yanked through a intricate mess of thoughts/ideas/beliefs/truths in a limited amount of time.   Ephesians 5:9 was the verse that instigated my journey:  for it´s the light that brings a rich harvest of every kind of goodness, righteousness, and truth.    On a biological basis the sun is the source of life.   Plants caputure light from the sun and turn it into storable energy, which allows plants to grow and...