rainy season is definitely here!

We have safely made it back home from another mountain adventure! This time the road was much a much better one, and the trip only took 2 hours. We spent our time at a place called "Camp Kewina", an SIM run camp for youth. This particular camp was for Quechua country kids, ages 6-10. Camp Kewina operates with 5 staff members, and the rest are volunteers. There were about 200 kids for this camp... so kids were running around everywhere! I was photographing the cabin with the 6 year old girls, and the counselor had to leave to get some things, so thru a game of charades I figured out that she wanted me to watch them and make sure they didn't run outside. Well that is all fine and dandy, but these girls are speaking Quechua, not Spanish... so anything they said to me I had no hope of understanding! I could figure out most things they were asking just by the direction they were heading or what they had in their hand, but needless to say i'm sure the only word I said while the counselor was gone was "no." What a fun counselor I am, huh?

World Vision has quite a few projects in the countryside of Bolivia, where kids are sponsored by lovely people like yourself, and then are given the opportunity to attend camp.
So this happened to be one of those World Vision camps, which happens about ten times a year. And to achieve the full effect of camp, the rainy season proved faithful in providing us with non-stop showers while we were there. They told us that this has been the rainiest rainy season they have had for the last ten years.

The camp is set perfectly on the mountain ranges with a lake out front, where I'm sure if it were America, would be packed full of huge houses, seeing its prime real estate property! The seventy acres include 12 cabins, dining halls, meeting rooms, a gym complete with a rock climbing wall, trails throughout the mountain, and a challenge course. Plenty of things for these kids to do!

We are now back in Cochabamba, busy editing and preparing for our next photo shoots this week. Thank you once again for your prayers, and continue to pray for us as we start to pull things together project wise, and that our desire to tell their story meets their needs for their ministry.