MEXICO JOURNAL
This is my journal, for anyone who wants to read it...some is left out cause some is personal but you get what we did.
August 9 --> Day 3
well yesterday and the day before we were driving non stop...insanity, and right now i am on the bus once again driving to el carmen...last night we stopped off in san antonio, texas, to sleep...man was it nasty
the outside was fine, but the inside was so sick. we slept in dorms w/ 4 beds each(2 bunks) and the beds...eww there was blood, pee and whatever else stains there were on the beds...and auntie debbie found a bug crawling in her bed, i almost cried. i was so close to sleeping on the floor, but i sprayed lysol on the beds and put my air matress shell on top so it was okay.
me & meg took a shower together (in bathing suits of course) and i dropped her soap down the drain whole it was hillarious and we were laughing so hard. i hope i dont get eaten by spiders, that would be dissapointing. we're driving to loredo right now to eat and peet up with a Ukandu guy. then off to the boarder. i hope it'll be an easy crossing i dont want them to meess my bags up but i got nothing to hide so search away.
i have a new obsession -> CORN NUTS...anazung things...
im wearing stripped gitch, and a pink skirt that you can see thru it, it stinks but its funny.
we're in loredo right now, , just arrived...the temp is 36...im gonna die out hree.
signing off
-katie
I'm back, it's the same day and we are in our sleeping arrangement in El Carmen,, its not too bad inside im suprisingly happy with the way ti is, theres windows and doors everywhere and the walls are white but kinda dirty, the floors just cement but its better than dirt. theres ants crawling all over the place but it doesnt bug me. sprrising huh?
well there was a thunderstorm tonite and we had many power failures, so we went outside to watch the lightening, during the lightening we found a mother of a frog, man it was huge.
but anyway we came to el carmen at around 10-10:30 i heart ehre was a scorpion like an hour ago so i went to check it out but when i walked out of the building there was a freaking spider...wait TARANTULA!!!! and i freaked, and i MEAN freaked, and i cried. it's been a touch day, and that darn tarnatula just put me over the edge.
anyway it was big and gross and it was far away but i could still tell it was MASSIVE. man what did i get myself into? spiders, scorpions, ants, oh sorry i didnt mencion we have to take millitary showers, we cant drink the water and we cant flush our toilet paper!!! EWWWWWW
i juts pray i survive and learn not take what i got for grtanted cause we got so much compared to them, im getting tired, so im going to sleep
-katie(ps tomorros our first work day!!!-
aug 10-tuesday-day 4
HOLA! today was fun yet exhausting, but mainly fun
k first off we have this ukandu guy, KRYS who takes us around and stuff and shows us teh orphanage and thigns, and anyways we woke up later than usual cause we all got to bed at lie 2 and we woke up wewent to this womans house who is our cook and she cooked us breaky, lunch and supper. supper was teh best!! we had quesidellas, they were amazing. anyway we went to the orphanage at around 3 and met the children and man they were so friggen ute. then we worked on construction from 4 - 6 but it seemed so much longer. first we had to dig some soil/rocks up so we can expand the b-ball court, then after that i went on the foor anwd was a memeber of an assembly line. it was mighty fine. fun but i thought i was gonna drop a brick, which would suck.
oh man we were having a team meeting someone either ripped one or a sweage exploded. it smelled so nasty for so long. everyone thoguth it was pablo, i wouldnt doubt it but who knows. we have this wall of encouragement and its cute cause people write nice things about you!
driving to the orphange, we saw many wild cows and a dead cow...mr wrinkles...johns a weenie, he just turned out hte lights and its really dark...well im still doin okay....
anyway we went to our second mexican store and bought a coke. it was like 3.5 pesos, so cheap. i love it.
we have to put a deposit on the bottle, we dont keep the bottle, we just get the liqued inside, and give the bottle back. its pretty cool.
i love mexicans, their so friendly and carefree. im gonna goget to bed, its dark but tomorrows our first full work day, tell you how it goes later
-katie katch
aug 11-wed-day 5
hola yo
today we ended up at a half work day yet again, we got to the orphanage, played with the kids till...well the whoel day basically, becasue it was a slpw work day we just ahd to haul bricks and wood but besides that it was slack. we went to the roof and talked and i just looked at the mountians and sky and stuff and i bet you i iwll NEVER see anything as becauful as that ever again. we are in a valley with mountians surrounding us with clouds hovering above them, it's toob eautiful for words. i will take pictures
then tonite we went to a mexican church and oh howi love it. everyone is so passionate and welcoming of us it is very comforting. when we sang they just dance hardcore and its just awasome. i did childresn ministry and the kids are adorable but apparently in the service people were crying/fainting when a pastor blessed them...crazy, pretty cool i hear. i gotta sleep now
adios journal
-katie
aug 12- thursday - day 6
Buenos,
i'm sleep and cranky so im gonna mak e this one short. today was a full work day, man was it hard. i worked with the kids from 9-12:30 then we ate, it was SO FUN!! i love them like crazy. then i went tousdie, it was hard, but fun. then we went to another chruch just for the worshioip then left, we sang ALABORE! infront of the congregation, but then we went out for ice cream and teh guy ripped me off cause i have blonde hair and blue eyes, dumb eh? oh well, im going to bed i am WASTED
august 13 - friday - day 7 (one week left :'( )
hola journal
it's after 12 and i had a ownderful day.
k well we went to the orphanage and i had a full work day, no kids or anything, we were hauling concrete and bricks and making concrete. tough, but good! gabriel IS SO CUTE!!! i just want to eat him. hahah
k well i found out today that meg kinda likes justin, as do i, and mel. mel doesnt know about me and meg but i know about meg and meg knows about me...were starting to think he likes mel cause he always waits for her and flirts like crazy with her and stuff.
oh well me and meg came to the conclusion that we think we are so deprived, but hes' hot/nice so you know.
oh how crazy, his cup is right in front of me:P:P
moving on.
KRYS the ukando guy, is SOO FRIGGEN CUTE. he's only 22, turning 23 soon, he works with kids, builds things, aka orphanage, hes super NICE, has a wonderful heawrt and he speaks spanish. man if only i was older. he loves us canadians! and canadian cookies!! haha but seriously he's so great, hes the kinda guy i want when i am older. he was wearing this red hat today when he came to visit at night, and he looked like such a boy, and i love it. mel thought it was cute too. MAN did i mencion he looks exactly like ELBER BUCKER? exactly!!!!
moving on.
paul(pablo) is pissing me off, so bad... i dont want to be mean but i cant help it this is my journal i can express it. he pissed me off before but now he is more he doesnt know how to take hints,he just keep soing and going, just playing his guitar as if theres notomorrow. i wanna kill him, no thats mean, but what you gonna do...freeloader
anyways man tonight was hillarious we had a night off, we we walked to thru the town to centre sqaure, town sqaure, whatever...and bought cokes and sat and enjoyed them till it turned ark. oh man
it was "CRUISE NIGHT IN EL CARMEN" all these cars were driving around ONE block showing off their "pimped out" cars pimped means rims and a stereo, there was a bunch of super old beetles cruising and some trucks, in total there was about 5 cars, it was too funny. there were theres 2 creepy guys they kept staring at us when they drove by kind achekcing us out, kinda not. not cool, but it was hillarious. they've never expericenced a real cuirse nite i guess.
its a real shame, but it crates some good humor for us city folk. man this trip has been a blast, im sitting outside wrting this, probably around 1-1:30...but im not goin in for a bit Tengo Hambre (i'm hungry)
why cant Krys be ugly and not cool, so i wont miss him when i leave. some serious tears will be shed when we leave.
man when we go to the house we eat at there is this dog and its so sad, its all sknisnny, no, bony and bug eaten, bleeding and dying its so sad. everyone here is so frenidsly you walk down the street and everyone says hola and its cool. winnipeg sucks, its so beautiful up here, i could live here, mountians, palm trees, beautiful people, beautiful children. i LOVE it out here. god made some pretty beautiful stuff, i appreciate it. god is great. well im gettin tired, we're driving up to saltillo tomorrow, no, san raffiel, to go to a church and talk about a vision for somet hing...i'll update tomorrow. we have to pack everytihng up cause were staying the night and im not happy about that but whatever, (ps saturday/sunday are our days off..._ this weeks gone by already, crazy. i dont wanna leave the kids!! i gotta go in soon so i'll leave now
adios
-katie
august 14- saturday - day 8
well today was day one of tewo of our days off. we took the bus from el camen 3 hours to san raffiel and that is wehre i am sitting right now, first ofa ll this place is two times as poor as el camen, and we arent allowed to leave the campus without asking. oh well...tomororw we are going to a water park, it should be fun, but you know who stopped by for a nice monthly visit! boo, oh well, i got tons of bites and their preading, its gorss and im covered in calamine lotion, i can now see the affects of missionary work...i used to tihnk i wasnt cut out for this but i've come a long way and im proud of myself.
the pastor of the church we are at just talked to us about a mission and he just got back from today, and man people were living in mountians, trading pots for clothes and stuff like that, like way back ehn. like pioneers, that would be cool to do, im seriously considering it for a career when i grow up, like kyrs, i look up to him, and i wan tto do what he does. its people liek that, that actually make a difference...but yah, the people in the mountians were just mind blowing we have SO much compared to them, they have ika 50 sq ft house and i have a 3500 sq foot house.i feel so guilty, but i cnat help it. i've grown so much this trip, in maturity, in some ways, with god and with my relationships, i love it and i wanna do this more often, but im only 14...and im on a mission trip, i think my lifes flowing pretty well, i've accomplished alot, the lights just got turned off and i lost my train of thought
anyways wehn i got here i had a nap cause i was pmsing and i needed a break then i went outside and everyone was sitting ontop a tree fort kinda thing and that was basically the teen hangout the whole night...man when we were coming here we sopped off for lunch and had some sketchy beef tacos, so sick...it was injected with heppititis i swear, mm what else? uh tomorrow were going to monterrey to go swimming and to a waterpark it'll be fun! crap i said that already, oh well...my disc man is skipping...i miss dad, oreo ty and my fish, i havent been away from dad this long ever, it'll be fine tho, im alive, hes alive, its happy
gotta sleep
-katie
august 15-sunday - day 9
well today we packed up from san rafiel and headed on down to monterrey where we stopped for lunch at mc dicks where i wanwst feeling too well but i ate anyways, then we went to the waterpark where under NO circumstances a girl could go alone anywhere. we had to have a guy at all times and now i see why. we were walking around and we gota ll thses whistelles and stuff and it was nasty cause theyre all old nad we were on a waterslide line and tehre was this old guy who looked at me then looked at him then pointed at me then him and yelled & whisteled things to me, ewww
also when we were at teh wave pol, there was guys who came just to watch us they stared at us for like 5 mins each ad didnt look away onced, it was nasty and this creepy buy followed meg and it was gorrs
on the bus going back to el carmen, we had a hardcore talk about hop hop culture, with jon, and minimizing women to sex objects and it was just a really good talk...time for bed i think, oh i got a massage from Krys today...and it felt so good i cried...well good night
-katie
august 16- monday- day 10
k erll its the morning today but big drama broke out, we still havent left for the orphange yet cause we missed the bus but it will come back, k here the drama goes.
Steve-the bus drive is no longwer with us, yes we have no ride home...this is because he has done some inapropriate things, the last week and the leadershop crew told him to go home and he did something to sara, angelita and arlene, and made them feel uncomftorable...ntohing criminal but enough to get the creeped out, and sent home...man its early and alreadyt here is drama...it makes me wanna puke, its ogod he got sent hom etho, for the saftey of us...
i juts had to update what happened...when its still fresh in mymind...
write later, gotta go orphanage it up!
k well at the orphanage it was quite un-productive, all i did was cut plastic piping with carolina for Krys but only 2 full work days let to get the ceiling built, i hope we will get it one, man i hope so, we gotta give it our all. i wish krys live d in wpg, hes such a good guy, everyon loves him, he'd be a wicked awesome big brother...i wont see him again probably, unless we come back next year...but it still makes me sad, maybe jon'll keep in touch with him cause they sure hit it off and their like brothers.... man what would we do if we didnt gert a ride home? that would suck, but be good so we could finish the roof if we didnt, god iwll come thru he always does, after all, he did bring us this far.
k going to sleep now
-kaite
Tuesday - august 17 - day 11
k well today we got a HECK of alot accomplished and i am proud of me and the group, me because i would have never thought of doign that but i am pulling thru hard and i hope im making a difference, we went to the town square and got some coke and ice cream and i trieed to call daddy but he wasnt home! so i just left a message, but i talked to tim and charlie was over it was pretty good. tomorrow is gonna be the sad, the last time we ever see the kids at the orphanage. we got a ride hom ewhich is good, its apparently really nice, luxury bus which is nice, im gonna miss here so bad, ive grown so fond of it, i'd live here for a year if dad ty and orero were here, maybe hwne i grow up hopefully. i loe this kinda work, i will miss the kidas at the orphanage, krys and just el carmen/mexico completly...maybe i'll come back, its just so darn beautiful, im laying on the steps right now and i hope i never forget this moment, its too perfect, i didnt expect me to like it this much here as i do. its all the experience.
arlene has a crush on krys, isnt that cute? shes all giggly around him and it makes me happy
well me meg mel dustin andrew and kari are talking on the stops right now, oh ryan just walked up so i think i'd better go and talk...might write later...till next time
-katie
wednesday - august 19 - day 12...
k well today we finsihed the roof on the orpahnage! WOOHOO!!! and put a little concreet onto the bball court and carved "SIRVA 2004" onto the roof...:) and after the day was done, we had a party for the kids it only lasted 45 mins for us casue we had to go to dinner but it was better than nothing right? we played with the kids andhung out and stuff, but aw man, krys and fernando were so adorable, (i got a picture) Krys was holding fernando an dfernando wasnt letting go and he kept hugging krys and they both looked so friggen adorable, ah i almost cried it was so cute. anwyay
we all hula hoped it up and did somme side walsk chalk, made necklaces, hats and just goofed around. then we had to leave =(
man was it emotional, i think i was the first one crying...David(benjamin bratt look-alike) started praying, the kids repeated it, and krys translated it, when the kids started repeating it, thats when i started to cry, i looked at meg then she cried cause i cried, then mel, then kar, then when we were actually saying bye, alot of people cried, most of us and a good mount of kids. ryan even cried. im gona miss those kids, they totally impacked me and i hope we impacked them. i know krys had impacted me, like i wish i was like him, so much, he's so young and he has done alot and is doign alot, he's almost 23 and man, when im 234, i want to acutally do something with my life, when i graduate im gonna do this...missionary work...totally, krys inspired me.:P
anyways, it was a very sad goodbye, allehandro started crying which got everyone else going and it was a big sob fest full of hugs, so sad.
the plan tomorrow is to drive to loredo, then go to the mexican boarder market, wooo and the sleep ther eand go back to wpg, ah i gotta go to bed, we're all leaving the outside steps
-katie
thursday - august 19 - day 13
hey,w e are on the bus now, leaving el carmen:( i am so sad, when i went to brush my teeth my mom was looking at something and i asked what and she pointed to the school and tehre were teh kids from the orphanage and mat and some other people were ther eso i ran over and we were playing with some and i was so sad we had to leave, i almost cried again, it might sound weired, but i look up to those kids, they have so little and their happier than i am when i have alot. it makes me feel guilty, maybe, hopefully things will change when i get home. we're driving to loredo where we picked up krys and sleepin ghtere then getting ab us to piuck us up in the morning. i cant believe we're acutally gone, it feels like a big hunk of my life is taken away, im looking forward to seeing those kids up in heaven. after the kids went in for school, they all came out with their grades and we saw them cause we were waiting for the bus and we gave them all high fives and my eyes started to water, then teh older kids came and did the same thing, like marcos, linda ext. t was so sad. krys is too lucky, the moutnaisn are gone, the coke shops, the freindly people...cruise night, im gonna miss it but enough with the sad stuff we're going to the mexican market where i can get bootlegged movies! woo and buy stuff for family!
im totally doign this agian, i dont care if its next month or in 20 years from now, im doing this again
i gotta go and maybe write more tonigt
-katie
Friday august 20 - day 14
well teh trip is now officially over. before i got to the sad stuff, last night was so much fun, we got the place we picked krys up and it was so nice and we had HOT SHOWERS, and i shaved my legs iwth shaving cream and washed my hair so good and my hair feels wondeful today, then wehn i got out of the shower, pizza came, and we had pizza hut, yum it was the best pizza i've ever had. then we just hung out for a while then krys had an idea to crack out Dutch Blitz, i've seen a side of him i never had! he's crazy! that game got intense, and so did he, it was kidna scary, but mostly funny, and just overall, fun. Mel started crying in the middle of the game, yelling "AHH EVERYONES FIGHTING" it was so funny, after that game we had a game of zip-bong and it was great. Dustins face was friggen funnny! he got me out but we were all doing good, then after we went into the bathroom (mel kari carolyn, naomi meg and i_ and just laughed so hard. then we just went to bed. in the morning we had to pack up and leave. krys said bye to us and i cried. man i've gotten emotional, but it was sad, i hope we see krys again, hes super cool, when krys hugged me the firs tiem i felt tears comin up then he gave me another massage and man it was so good, i felt 100x better than i ever have this whole trip, then the second time he hugged me, i started to cry. im an emotional wreck...im gonna miss him...but i gotta go we're playing zobmondo
-kaite
k im back, same day, i forgot to write about the boarder marked. we're still on teh bus by the way, we're in groups of more than 4, i was w/ mel meg kari dustin spence ryan joel maybe more, and there was tons of silver jewlery and just touristey stuff, you knmow...no bootleg dvd's tho:( oh well...i bught a wicked pink purse with a flower on it and words froma pocahontas song on it, oakleys for ty, a bracelent for serena, bubbaloo pour moi, and a snake thin gfor dad, it was dumb tu the only thing i could find for him.
i acutally bardered some, actually everyhthing but snake and bracelet. i lamost bought a knock off louis vitton wallet but i couldnt get her down to 15 dollars,...oh well...then in the middlle, me mel and someone else, i forgot got tditched by our group so we just went alone, it was better that way anyway, then a guy tried to pick pocked jon but he didnt, good thing, then krys almost got hit by a car, and we tookt he city bus to the pplace we sayed at, it was cool, we were talikin to jon when we got on the bus and he said next year ukandu is building a new orphanage outside of saltilly and if we go to help we would most likely get krys as our leader, that would rock! i'd be so happy. next time we should go for amonth, with the same people accept soem.
this is the last couple sentences in my mexico journal...which saddens me but until next year...
This is it.
It's been fun.
-Katie Katchnoski
August 9 --> Day 3
well yesterday and the day before we were driving non stop...insanity, and right now i am on the bus once again driving to el carmen...last night we stopped off in san antonio, texas, to sleep...man was it nasty
the outside was fine, but the inside was so sick. we slept in dorms w/ 4 beds each(2 bunks) and the beds...eww there was blood, pee and whatever else stains there were on the beds...and auntie debbie found a bug crawling in her bed, i almost cried. i was so close to sleeping on the floor, but i sprayed lysol on the beds and put my air matress shell on top so it was okay.
me & meg took a shower together (in bathing suits of course) and i dropped her soap down the drain whole it was hillarious and we were laughing so hard. i hope i dont get eaten by spiders, that would be dissapointing. we're driving to loredo right now to eat and peet up with a Ukandu guy. then off to the boarder. i hope it'll be an easy crossing i dont want them to meess my bags up but i got nothing to hide so search away.
i have a new obsession -> CORN NUTS...anazung things...
im wearing stripped gitch, and a pink skirt that you can see thru it, it stinks but its funny.
we're in loredo right now, , just arrived...the temp is 36...im gonna die out hree.
signing off
-katie
I'm back, it's the same day and we are in our sleeping arrangement in El Carmen,, its not too bad inside im suprisingly happy with the way ti is, theres windows and doors everywhere and the walls are white but kinda dirty, the floors just cement but its better than dirt. theres ants crawling all over the place but it doesnt bug me. sprrising huh?
well there was a thunderstorm tonite and we had many power failures, so we went outside to watch the lightening, during the lightening we found a mother of a frog, man it was huge.
but anyway we came to el carmen at around 10-10:30 i heart ehre was a scorpion like an hour ago so i went to check it out but when i walked out of the building there was a freaking spider...wait TARANTULA!!!! and i freaked, and i MEAN freaked, and i cried. it's been a touch day, and that darn tarnatula just put me over the edge.
anyway it was big and gross and it was far away but i could still tell it was MASSIVE. man what did i get myself into? spiders, scorpions, ants, oh sorry i didnt mencion we have to take millitary showers, we cant drink the water and we cant flush our toilet paper!!! EWWWWWW
i juts pray i survive and learn not take what i got for grtanted cause we got so much compared to them, im getting tired, so im going to sleep
-katie(ps tomorros our first work day!!!-
aug 10-tuesday-day 4
HOLA! today was fun yet exhausting, but mainly fun
k first off we have this ukandu guy, KRYS who takes us around and stuff and shows us teh orphanage and thigns, and anyways we woke up later than usual cause we all got to bed at lie 2 and we woke up wewent to this womans house who is our cook and she cooked us breaky, lunch and supper. supper was teh best!! we had quesidellas, they were amazing. anyway we went to the orphanage at around 3 and met the children and man they were so friggen ute. then we worked on construction from 4 - 6 but it seemed so much longer. first we had to dig some soil/rocks up so we can expand the b-ball court, then after that i went on the foor anwd was a memeber of an assembly line. it was mighty fine. fun but i thought i was gonna drop a brick, which would suck.
oh man we were having a team meeting someone either ripped one or a sweage exploded. it smelled so nasty for so long. everyone thoguth it was pablo, i wouldnt doubt it but who knows. we have this wall of encouragement and its cute cause people write nice things about you!
driving to the orphange, we saw many wild cows and a dead cow...mr wrinkles...johns a weenie, he just turned out hte lights and its really dark...well im still doin okay....
anyway we went to our second mexican store and bought a coke. it was like 3.5 pesos, so cheap. i love it.
we have to put a deposit on the bottle, we dont keep the bottle, we just get the liqued inside, and give the bottle back. its pretty cool.
i love mexicans, their so friendly and carefree. im gonna goget to bed, its dark but tomorrows our first full work day, tell you how it goes later
-katie katch
aug 11-wed-day 5
hola yo
today we ended up at a half work day yet again, we got to the orphanage, played with the kids till...well the whoel day basically, becasue it was a slpw work day we just ahd to haul bricks and wood but besides that it was slack. we went to the roof and talked and i just looked at the mountians and sky and stuff and i bet you i iwll NEVER see anything as becauful as that ever again. we are in a valley with mountians surrounding us with clouds hovering above them, it's toob eautiful for words. i will take pictures
then tonite we went to a mexican church and oh howi love it. everyone is so passionate and welcoming of us it is very comforting. when we sang they just dance hardcore and its just awasome. i did childresn ministry and the kids are adorable but apparently in the service people were crying/fainting when a pastor blessed them...crazy, pretty cool i hear. i gotta sleep now
adios journal
-katie
aug 12- thursday - day 6
Buenos,
i'm sleep and cranky so im gonna mak e this one short. today was a full work day, man was it hard. i worked with the kids from 9-12:30 then we ate, it was SO FUN!! i love them like crazy. then i went tousdie, it was hard, but fun. then we went to another chruch just for the worshioip then left, we sang ALABORE! infront of the congregation, but then we went out for ice cream and teh guy ripped me off cause i have blonde hair and blue eyes, dumb eh? oh well, im going to bed i am WASTED
august 13 - friday - day 7 (one week left :'( )
hola journal
it's after 12 and i had a ownderful day.
k well we went to the orphanage and i had a full work day, no kids or anything, we were hauling concrete and bricks and making concrete. tough, but good! gabriel IS SO CUTE!!! i just want to eat him. hahah
k well i found out today that meg kinda likes justin, as do i, and mel. mel doesnt know about me and meg but i know about meg and meg knows about me...were starting to think he likes mel cause he always waits for her and flirts like crazy with her and stuff.
oh well me and meg came to the conclusion that we think we are so deprived, but hes' hot/nice so you know.
oh how crazy, his cup is right in front of me:P:P
moving on.
KRYS the ukando guy, is SOO FRIGGEN CUTE. he's only 22, turning 23 soon, he works with kids, builds things, aka orphanage, hes super NICE, has a wonderful heawrt and he speaks spanish. man if only i was older. he loves us canadians! and canadian cookies!! haha but seriously he's so great, hes the kinda guy i want when i am older. he was wearing this red hat today when he came to visit at night, and he looked like such a boy, and i love it. mel thought it was cute too. MAN did i mencion he looks exactly like ELBER BUCKER? exactly!!!!
moving on.
paul(pablo) is pissing me off, so bad... i dont want to be mean but i cant help it this is my journal i can express it. he pissed me off before but now he is more he doesnt know how to take hints,he just keep soing and going, just playing his guitar as if theres notomorrow. i wanna kill him, no thats mean, but what you gonna do...freeloader
anyways man tonight was hillarious we had a night off, we we walked to thru the town to centre sqaure, town sqaure, whatever...and bought cokes and sat and enjoyed them till it turned ark. oh man
it was "CRUISE NIGHT IN EL CARMEN" all these cars were driving around ONE block showing off their "pimped out" cars pimped means rims and a stereo, there was a bunch of super old beetles cruising and some trucks, in total there was about 5 cars, it was too funny. there were theres 2 creepy guys they kept staring at us when they drove by kind achekcing us out, kinda not. not cool, but it was hillarious. they've never expericenced a real cuirse nite i guess.
its a real shame, but it crates some good humor for us city folk. man this trip has been a blast, im sitting outside wrting this, probably around 1-1:30...but im not goin in for a bit Tengo Hambre (i'm hungry)
why cant Krys be ugly and not cool, so i wont miss him when i leave. some serious tears will be shed when we leave.
man when we go to the house we eat at there is this dog and its so sad, its all sknisnny, no, bony and bug eaten, bleeding and dying its so sad. everyone here is so frenidsly you walk down the street and everyone says hola and its cool. winnipeg sucks, its so beautiful up here, i could live here, mountians, palm trees, beautiful people, beautiful children. i LOVE it out here. god made some pretty beautiful stuff, i appreciate it. god is great. well im gettin tired, we're driving up to saltillo tomorrow, no, san raffiel, to go to a church and talk about a vision for somet hing...i'll update tomorrow. we have to pack everytihng up cause were staying the night and im not happy about that but whatever, (ps saturday/sunday are our days off..._ this weeks gone by already, crazy. i dont wanna leave the kids!! i gotta go in soon so i'll leave now
adios
-katie
august 14- saturday - day 8
well today was day one of tewo of our days off. we took the bus from el camen 3 hours to san raffiel and that is wehre i am sitting right now, first ofa ll this place is two times as poor as el camen, and we arent allowed to leave the campus without asking. oh well...tomororw we are going to a water park, it should be fun, but you know who stopped by for a nice monthly visit! boo, oh well, i got tons of bites and their preading, its gorss and im covered in calamine lotion, i can now see the affects of missionary work...i used to tihnk i wasnt cut out for this but i've come a long way and im proud of myself.
the pastor of the church we are at just talked to us about a mission and he just got back from today, and man people were living in mountians, trading pots for clothes and stuff like that, like way back ehn. like pioneers, that would be cool to do, im seriously considering it for a career when i grow up, like kyrs, i look up to him, and i wan tto do what he does. its people liek that, that actually make a difference...but yah, the people in the mountians were just mind blowing we have SO much compared to them, they have ika 50 sq ft house and i have a 3500 sq foot house.i feel so guilty, but i cnat help it. i've grown so much this trip, in maturity, in some ways, with god and with my relationships, i love it and i wanna do this more often, but im only 14...and im on a mission trip, i think my lifes flowing pretty well, i've accomplished alot, the lights just got turned off and i lost my train of thought
anyways wehn i got here i had a nap cause i was pmsing and i needed a break then i went outside and everyone was sitting ontop a tree fort kinda thing and that was basically the teen hangout the whole night...man when we were coming here we sopped off for lunch and had some sketchy beef tacos, so sick...it was injected with heppititis i swear, mm what else? uh tomorrow were going to monterrey to go swimming and to a waterpark it'll be fun! crap i said that already, oh well...my disc man is skipping...i miss dad, oreo ty and my fish, i havent been away from dad this long ever, it'll be fine tho, im alive, hes alive, its happy
gotta sleep
-katie
august 15-sunday - day 9
well today we packed up from san rafiel and headed on down to monterrey where we stopped for lunch at mc dicks where i wanwst feeling too well but i ate anyways, then we went to the waterpark where under NO circumstances a girl could go alone anywhere. we had to have a guy at all times and now i see why. we were walking around and we gota ll thses whistelles and stuff and it was nasty cause theyre all old nad we were on a waterslide line and tehre was this old guy who looked at me then looked at him then pointed at me then him and yelled & whisteled things to me, ewww
also when we were at teh wave pol, there was guys who came just to watch us they stared at us for like 5 mins each ad didnt look away onced, it was nasty and this creepy buy followed meg and it was gorrs
on the bus going back to el carmen, we had a hardcore talk about hop hop culture, with jon, and minimizing women to sex objects and it was just a really good talk...time for bed i think, oh i got a massage from Krys today...and it felt so good i cried...well good night
-katie
august 16- monday- day 10
k erll its the morning today but big drama broke out, we still havent left for the orphange yet cause we missed the bus but it will come back, k here the drama goes.
Steve-the bus drive is no longwer with us, yes we have no ride home...this is because he has done some inapropriate things, the last week and the leadershop crew told him to go home and he did something to sara, angelita and arlene, and made them feel uncomftorable...ntohing criminal but enough to get the creeped out, and sent home...man its early and alreadyt here is drama...it makes me wanna puke, its ogod he got sent hom etho, for the saftey of us...
i juts had to update what happened...when its still fresh in mymind...
write later, gotta go orphanage it up!
k well at the orphanage it was quite un-productive, all i did was cut plastic piping with carolina for Krys but only 2 full work days let to get the ceiling built, i hope we will get it one, man i hope so, we gotta give it our all. i wish krys live d in wpg, hes such a good guy, everyon loves him, he'd be a wicked awesome big brother...i wont see him again probably, unless we come back next year...but it still makes me sad, maybe jon'll keep in touch with him cause they sure hit it off and their like brothers.... man what would we do if we didnt gert a ride home? that would suck, but be good so we could finish the roof if we didnt, god iwll come thru he always does, after all, he did bring us this far.
k going to sleep now
-kaite
Tuesday - august 17 - day 11
k well today we got a HECK of alot accomplished and i am proud of me and the group, me because i would have never thought of doign that but i am pulling thru hard and i hope im making a difference, we went to the town square and got some coke and ice cream and i trieed to call daddy but he wasnt home! so i just left a message, but i talked to tim and charlie was over it was pretty good. tomorrow is gonna be the sad, the last time we ever see the kids at the orphanage. we got a ride hom ewhich is good, its apparently really nice, luxury bus which is nice, im gonna miss here so bad, ive grown so fond of it, i'd live here for a year if dad ty and orero were here, maybe hwne i grow up hopefully. i loe this kinda work, i will miss the kidas at the orphanage, krys and just el carmen/mexico completly...maybe i'll come back, its just so darn beautiful, im laying on the steps right now and i hope i never forget this moment, its too perfect, i didnt expect me to like it this much here as i do. its all the experience.
arlene has a crush on krys, isnt that cute? shes all giggly around him and it makes me happy
well me meg mel dustin andrew and kari are talking on the stops right now, oh ryan just walked up so i think i'd better go and talk...might write later...till next time
-katie
wednesday - august 19 - day 12...
k well today we finsihed the roof on the orpahnage! WOOHOO!!! and put a little concreet onto the bball court and carved "SIRVA 2004" onto the roof...:) and after the day was done, we had a party for the kids it only lasted 45 mins for us casue we had to go to dinner but it was better than nothing right? we played with the kids andhung out and stuff, but aw man, krys and fernando were so adorable, (i got a picture) Krys was holding fernando an dfernando wasnt letting go and he kept hugging krys and they both looked so friggen adorable, ah i almost cried it was so cute. anwyay
we all hula hoped it up and did somme side walsk chalk, made necklaces, hats and just goofed around. then we had to leave =(
man was it emotional, i think i was the first one crying...David(benjamin bratt look-alike) started praying, the kids repeated it, and krys translated it, when the kids started repeating it, thats when i started to cry, i looked at meg then she cried cause i cried, then mel, then kar, then when we were actually saying bye, alot of people cried, most of us and a good mount of kids. ryan even cried. im gona miss those kids, they totally impacked me and i hope we impacked them. i know krys had impacted me, like i wish i was like him, so much, he's so young and he has done alot and is doign alot, he's almost 23 and man, when im 234, i want to acutally do something with my life, when i graduate im gonna do this...missionary work...totally, krys inspired me.:P
anyways, it was a very sad goodbye, allehandro started crying which got everyone else going and it was a big sob fest full of hugs, so sad.
the plan tomorrow is to drive to loredo, then go to the mexican boarder market, wooo and the sleep ther eand go back to wpg, ah i gotta go to bed, we're all leaving the outside steps
-katie
thursday - august 19 - day 13
hey,w e are on the bus now, leaving el carmen:( i am so sad, when i went to brush my teeth my mom was looking at something and i asked what and she pointed to the school and tehre were teh kids from the orphanage and mat and some other people were ther eso i ran over and we were playing with some and i was so sad we had to leave, i almost cried again, it might sound weired, but i look up to those kids, they have so little and their happier than i am when i have alot. it makes me feel guilty, maybe, hopefully things will change when i get home. we're driving to loredo where we picked up krys and sleepin ghtere then getting ab us to piuck us up in the morning. i cant believe we're acutally gone, it feels like a big hunk of my life is taken away, im looking forward to seeing those kids up in heaven. after the kids went in for school, they all came out with their grades and we saw them cause we were waiting for the bus and we gave them all high fives and my eyes started to water, then teh older kids came and did the same thing, like marcos, linda ext. t was so sad. krys is too lucky, the moutnaisn are gone, the coke shops, the freindly people...cruise night, im gonna miss it but enough with the sad stuff we're going to the mexican market where i can get bootlegged movies! woo and buy stuff for family!
im totally doign this agian, i dont care if its next month or in 20 years from now, im doing this again
i gotta go and maybe write more tonigt
-katie
Friday august 20 - day 14
well teh trip is now officially over. before i got to the sad stuff, last night was so much fun, we got the place we picked krys up and it was so nice and we had HOT SHOWERS, and i shaved my legs iwth shaving cream and washed my hair so good and my hair feels wondeful today, then wehn i got out of the shower, pizza came, and we had pizza hut, yum it was the best pizza i've ever had. then we just hung out for a while then krys had an idea to crack out Dutch Blitz, i've seen a side of him i never had! he's crazy! that game got intense, and so did he, it was kidna scary, but mostly funny, and just overall, fun. Mel started crying in the middle of the game, yelling "AHH EVERYONES FIGHTING" it was so funny, after that game we had a game of zip-bong and it was great. Dustins face was friggen funnny! he got me out but we were all doing good, then after we went into the bathroom (mel kari carolyn, naomi meg and i_ and just laughed so hard. then we just went to bed. in the morning we had to pack up and leave. krys said bye to us and i cried. man i've gotten emotional, but it was sad, i hope we see krys again, hes super cool, when krys hugged me the firs tiem i felt tears comin up then he gave me another massage and man it was so good, i felt 100x better than i ever have this whole trip, then the second time he hugged me, i started to cry. im an emotional wreck...im gonna miss him...but i gotta go we're playing zobmondo
-kaite
k im back, same day, i forgot to write about the boarder marked. we're still on teh bus by the way, we're in groups of more than 4, i was w/ mel meg kari dustin spence ryan joel maybe more, and there was tons of silver jewlery and just touristey stuff, you knmow...no bootleg dvd's tho:( oh well...i bught a wicked pink purse with a flower on it and words froma pocahontas song on it, oakleys for ty, a bracelent for serena, bubbaloo pour moi, and a snake thin gfor dad, it was dumb tu the only thing i could find for him.
i acutally bardered some, actually everyhthing but snake and bracelet. i lamost bought a knock off louis vitton wallet but i couldnt get her down to 15 dollars,...oh well...then in the middlle, me mel and someone else, i forgot got tditched by our group so we just went alone, it was better that way anyway, then a guy tried to pick pocked jon but he didnt, good thing, then krys almost got hit by a car, and we tookt he city bus to the pplace we sayed at, it was cool, we were talikin to jon when we got on the bus and he said next year ukandu is building a new orphanage outside of saltilly and if we go to help we would most likely get krys as our leader, that would rock! i'd be so happy. next time we should go for amonth, with the same people accept soem.
this is the last couple sentences in my mexico journal...which saddens me but until next year...
This is it.
It's been fun.
-Katie Katchnoski