Well, unfortunately due to minor sickness, I am missing out on our first community centre task :-( Hannah and Lois went this morning to help out in the Saturday morning homework club. This is something we've offered to do every week. We had a planning meeting on Thursday night for the holiday bible club and met the rest of the team. Everyone's lovely and I'm looking forward to it, it'll be the second week in July I think..! Next meeting is this Thursday inc a BBQ at Marcos yummmmmmm
This barrio (or community, but even when we talk in english we refer to the 'barrio') in which Marcos and Gwen moved into is crazy! haha Seriously, the stories that Marcos has told us about some of the people, their backgrounds, what has happened there, *cough* how many of the kids fathers are in prison *cough*, it's unbelievable. And if im honest a little scary, but it's great, because obviously this place has such a need for this centre, for this church, for this opportunity to change the way of life here! Already in the community Marcos and Gwen have established themselves and have obtained a level of respect, although Marcos admitted how difficult it was at first! 'Who are you? What you doin here? What you buildin there?' He talks about this project with such compassion and enthusiasm, and as he gave us the tour 2 years on, we couldn't quite believe the progress and the potential still building! Their blog address is http://quinterosclan.wordpress.com/ if you'd like to follow their progress..

Last Sunday hannah and I went to our old church Calama. We were gutted to discover that there is no longer an English service here! We were so looking forward to getting involved and it being a great meeting point for other foreign missionaries and travellers. Entering Calama for the first time in 2 years was strangely not as strange as I had anticipated.. It just felt 'normal'. We were warmly greeted at the door and throughout the service and after :o)

We enjoyed the Spanish service although to be honest by the end I was exhausted from concentrating so hard on the spanish sermon etc! After the service I got to hold my friends 4 month old baby ignacio who I was sooooo looking forward to meeting! I held him for a couple of minutes before he started crying hahaha! I think he was hungry though, nothing to do with me..

Normally on Sunday evenings in Bolivia we went to the Portguese service then out for a bite to eat after. This day we didn't feel brave enough to go, so we just agreed to meet our friends from the service after! We swapped stories and filled each other in on the last 2 years, and just like that it was just like the good old days and no time had passed. They've invited us round to their place on tonight to play guitar hero, can't wait! In all seriousness, these guys are class. They've always been like big brothers to us, looking out for us and checkin to see if we're ok, lettin us know to ring them if we need anything at all. I mean, where we live is safe, but it's nice to know we got people like that nearby :o)

I had Spanish classes every morning this last week. I don't feel I've learnt anything new, but it was good to refresh and I had a lot of talking and listening practise. I also got to meet the amazing teachers and some other students. Last night a few students and teachers got together at one of the students house for a games night. It was really good craic! The girl whose house we were at is called Laura and she's out here with Latin Link Stride working at Free Hands - www.freehandsbolivia.org (it's worth a look)
We had tried to find the new Free Hands building during the week but couldn't find it, so hopefully now we'll be able to meet Laura this coming week and offer her any help she needs with that work.

I've just imported my photos from my camera so I'll try and get some pics up asap...!