DONE

today is the last day at the campus. Me and caleb got up at 4am to drive to the airport and say goodbye to everyone. it was sad - i've lived day and night with thoes people for 5 months straight, and now i wont be able to see them for at least 3 weeks.
Calebs brother arrived this morning. tonight were grabbing a hotel in antigua, and then we're off to Tikal for a few nights. after that, not sure where were going.
My flight comes in at sea-tac airport at 2:30 am on june 25th. So ill see you all when i get back.
cheers

almost done

we are just starting our last week with Joann and Slava from trinity. We just finished our last week in our homes and the soccer playoffs in san pedro was yesterday. School ends in 11 days. Most of us are finishing off our gift shopping (sorry guys, but dont expect anything from me. i havent really been in the shopping mood). I've got plans to do the last few things that i havent done yet and feeling sorry for myself couse i have to leave guatemala. but at the same time, i've had enough school and im ready to leave the campus- and i cant wait to see all my family an freinds - and impress you with all my newfound maturity ( una buena broma)(aha).

for thoes who i havent told, me, caleb and his brother ( or "caleb, his brother and i" for all you critics) are taking a few weeks and traveling around central america. The plan is to head up tikal agian, then through the Yucatan in mexico, back down through belize, honduras , el salvador, and if i got time, Costa Rica.

Las Lisas

These are just a few pics from our trip to Las Lisas. and a ruin around antigua.

still alive

so i know its been a while since my last post, and i dont really have any good excuse, but i have been busy. After El Salvador we went back into our homes in san pedro and finished off our final papers and wrote our spanish final exam and did our final oral. For most of us, it went really well. We had a free day before taking off for tactic agian, so we decided to hike volcan Agua. Its not an active volcano, but it has an amazing view. It was 3700 meter up. I was feeling sick agian, didnt eat the day before and i didnt have any energy. i probably shouldnt have gone, but im glad i did. it was one of the hardest things i've ever done. I prayed for strength each step up. At the top, we couldnt see much, except for the clouds bellow us. But Fuego, the active volcano, was erupting nearby. we couldnt see it, but could definitly hear it erupting and rumbling.
We had to run down the mountain because we didnt want to get stuck in the dark. Comming home from santa maria, the town at the base of the volcano, was fun. no buses, taxis or tuk-tuk's were running. eventualy we found a guy with a truck who we paid to drive us back.
the very next day we left very early and sore for tac-tic. This time we didnt do as many kids ministry stuff, but we did a lot of painting and moved a lot of block. We painted the inside of a churh in tac-tic and the outside of a new school nearby and moved block into the back of trucks and then unloaded them at a construction site where they are building another school.
And good news. I went to the docter the other day, and he didnt think that i have a parasite, which means i should hopefully stay healthy. but i do have a cold, and i just gave it to everyone else here - suckers.
And we have some new freinds. there are 10 students from trinity who are living and taking classes with us. So its a big diffrence from 7 to 17 people on campus, but i think its a good change.