Livin' my life on the farm

I am back!! Ecuador day 1

I got back home early Tuesday morning around 1am, July 31st.  I have been kinda lazy getting back on here. hehe Sorry about that.  I journaled everyday I was down there so I'll those as I get them typed up onto the computer.

  ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Tuesday, July 17th ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The plane ride down to Miami was pretty good. I sat next to a gal named Debbie. It was her first time riding a plane, too. J She was going down to Mexico City with her friend Rosa. They were both really nice. They asked about the UW, they saw my shirt. So I got to share with them all about what Maranatha was doing. The landing was hard for me. Well not so much me as my stomach. I got pretty queasy.

After landing Matthew said “see ya in Ecuador” and headed off to catch his plane.(Matthew was going on the mission trip too) After walking in circles for nearly a ½ hour I managed to find my luggage. I finally got up 2 sets of escalators; mind you it was really hard! I checked in got my boarding pass and had nearly 4 hours to kill. I finally found a restaurant where I could buy something to eat. A turkey and cheese sandwich for $7.00!! That better be one good sandwich. It wasn’t. It was the nastiest thing I’ve eaten in a long time. Yeah! I threw all of it away but the turkey and cheese.

Around 3 o’clock a girl named Sara showed up. She was real friendly. Not too long after her friend Jael showed up. They started talking and I was kinda bumped out. But on the same flight was Michelle, Alex, Zach, Julia, and 2 other girls, I didn’t catch their names. Michelle and Alex are real cool. MIchelle is not in my group though. Bummer. Alex is though. He’s really funny.

The flight out of Miami was late. They had some trouble getting luggage on. But, it worked out real well. Two teens flight had been delayed and made it to the plane right when they were getting ready to get going! They made the flight! I fell asleep on the plane before we were off the ground. I was so tired. I woke up ½ hour - 45 minutes later when the captain was saying we could get up and when we would be arriving in Quito. Then they started playing that one movie about the farmer building the rocket in his bard. It was kinda boring. When that was over we were well over the ocean. It was weird because the waves didn’t even look like they were moving. It musta been real cold out side cause the windows all had frost on them. Sitting next to me was an Ecuadorian lady and her daughter; she was probably 4 or 5. About an hour from landing she got scared woke up from turbulence. Poor thing cried nearly the rest of the way. About a ½ hour from landing the visa forms were handed out. Haha I was so confused. I had to cross out half the stuff cause I wrote it in the wrong spot. whoops. Zach helped me fill it out. He was in the seat behind me. Close to landing a Korean girl asked us what Maranatha was. We told her and she told us she was with a group of like 30 teens that were going to build a school in Ecuador. How cool is that?

After we landed and got through customs we headed out to meet the staff. Ended up beings our flight was delayed so much the group after us had landed right at the same time so there was a good sized group of us, 80-100. When we walked out the door the staff was all yelling and cheering for us. I got so many high-fives and hugs. Hehe. It was cool. We loaded on the bus and headed to the hotel.

At the hotel we handed in our passports, glasses, and vitamins. I got assigned to a room with two awesome girlies. Anna and Kaileen. They’re real cool. This is their second trip, I believe. Around 1am I finally got to sleep. *phew*

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Our group's shirt...

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{ 8:10, Wednesday, August 8 } { Posted by kember }

I really enjoyed reading your post. I've never been on a mission trip, but I'm looking forward to it! BTW was the movie Chiti Chiti Bang Bang? Funny name!
Well I better go,

Kember ><>