batch one

So I'm back and it was good. We did ltos of travling, lots of walking, and witnessing and yeah it was an experience. When i have time i'll write up some exciting testimonies.
Here are a bunch of photos. I went to Arequipa, Puno, Julliaca, Cusco and I stepped into Bolivia for like 10 minutes.

Leila and Me witnessing.
A temple in Cusco
In Cusco
A pretty church -Cusco.
they say the Incas we're smart they made 12 angles in one stone to make sure things fit together. Count it.
In Puno
Leila, Her dad and I in Puno.
Lake titicaca. The largest lake in the world.
they had a festival while we where there in Julliaca.
At the festival with monkey man.
My one photo in Bolivia.
In Arequipa
This church is 1623 years old. All stone.
In Arequipa, Beautiful scenery.

Kire jyanai desuak?
Batch 2 is comming. ( also i already have all the photos posted in FB, check it out.)

Finally

I'm going on a 2 week road trip to machu pichu and La paz to see the sites, do some hardcore witnessing, renew my visa( In Bolivia), and experience this country fully. It'll be good.
These last 3 days have been full of fun. Friday we went to Esperanza's birthday party, Saturday everyone came here for Stephanies birthday party and we played games and danced till 5 in the morning. It was actually pretty fun, we had these black lights up and people were dancing with pieces of tissue in thier hands pretending they were glow sticks (because the black light makes everything white 'glow'.) waving them around like freaks, stuffing them in their ears and noses and generally doing their best to impersonate a glow worm. And yesterday everyone came over again for a Mexican lunch, some yummy mouth water enchiladas. Then me and Linda went over to Sebis apartment for a dinner which was really nice. I tried to make some cookies but unfortunately they burnt, very, very badly.
And now i'm trying to pack and stuff all of my belongings in a bag that is too small and I dont know how this is going to work properly but I have 1 hr left before I leave for the bus station and I'm only thinking about what snacks I would need to bring along to make my trip a good one.
I dont know if i'll have Internet while i'm out there doing Gods work so if you need to communicate with me lets try to do telepathically, okay?
Ciao cyber world, I know i'm gunna feel the withdrawls.

doing the new...again.

It was beautiful and sunny today, it hasn't been this sunny in many days so i took advantage of it and went jogging down by the beach, which was AWESOME! Its been cold so this was the first time since April that i went to the beach and it was just what i needed. Some fresh air, a sea breeze, the sun, the waves, the cuties, and I got to witness to this guy I met on my way back home.
Also this evening we had a bday party for Franco. We made some wicked pasta and ravioli and Francos wife made a lemon custard cake. yummy!
In sad news our kitty died. yup got hit by a car and is now flying in heaven.

Life IS good!

I've been having a good time with everyone away (ehehe) its been fun. Food has been extra yummy, i've been more busy, i've painted our fence, lara has come over to spend a few days, I gave 4 12FS classes, i've watched fun movies, heard about the Jacton FDTPers adventures and saw many photos on their blogs, i've gone to a BBQ, learned 'what a wonderful world' on guitar, had some quality time with my man, done things at my own pace, and it i dont want it to stop. but life continues to change and i'll have to keep on changing with it.
On a diffrent note, i should be going on a road trip to machu pichu soon. I know i'll have a great time visting the sights, singing in restaurants, witnessing to english speakers and eating even more delicous peruvian food.
After I come back I going to try to take a nursing course with the Red Cross here and that will be my first step in fullfilling that goal.
Besides that we will be entering cmas push very soon and we need more personnel, for real, so if you're available and want to make our home even more awesome then it is then PLEASE write and apply, because I would love to see you! Hey no one said you have to commit years and years here, if the lord puts in your heart and mind to join us if only for c-mas then DO IT! (cuz christmas really isn't the same without you.)
I'm waiting for you. I know you want meeee, you know i wantcha! 1, 2, 3, 4, uno, dos tres, quatro!

Fellowship photos

Leila and Stephanie have gone to Colombia to attend the FDTP for a couple of weeks and that leaves this house very empty and me with a lot of time to fill all by myself. so maybe i'll start blogging a little more faithfully now. heh
Here are some photos from last weeks fellowship.

Sammy, Pablo, me and Jemino.

Natalie, Stephanie and Lara.
The FGAs ( a pretty good crowd.)
and some of the young ppl.
It was pretty fun, we had a pot luck for lunch and a lot of singing and fellowshiping. It was really nice.

This weekend

I went to spend a couple of days with Linda which was lovely. We did girlie things, ate yummy food, went on walks, watched a movie and we went to a country club, which was gorgeous. Some photos from the Country Club.

Check out the horses:), I like'm.


Has a pooland a trampoline and lots of grass.

Lindaand happy, happy me.
Good friends, good times. PTL

Birthday

We had a birthday party for Anya last night and invited most of the younge poeple form the area for a dance. It was worth the effort.

Me and Anyas sister

Group shotYummies

Food and dance make me very happy.

I'm thinking

Of losing weight...again....its about that time....but then again its just an idea....a good idea...hmmm...

New profile photo

There is this one...

Then there is this one.

One is my underwear pose..... and the other is my swim suit pose,can you tell the difference? :D (If you get it, you get it.)
In other news I saw a kid today playing Kawa Bunga! Aaawwwsuuum.

Another

pretty picture of my sisters, especially you pat. You can become the model mommy always wanted her daughters to be.
Yumi, Angel and Pat being pretty and pretending to have fun.

Home photos

Back row L to R: Heber(30), Anselmo(2)of A and E, Anya(25), Emanuel(26) w/baby(7 months) of A and E, Lara(18)Active member, Me, Leila(18), and Rufus.
Front row L to R: Stephanie(15), Steven(20), Ivanna(27), Dulce, Jeremy(18), Amy(22)
Ivanna and Amy came with Pantida to visit their family(Rufus/ Dulce) for a week at the end of may and having them was really great. they are part of the 'Wild Wind' team so they had lots of exciting stories to share with us about how they live and travel all around the world by faith and ppl they minister too etc. Ivanna is a great inspirationalist so the inspirations we had while she was here were pretty awesome.

A portion of us

Steven and Sebastian
Gypsy dancing
Leila, Pandita and I
Leila, Anya, Pandita, Stephanie, Rufus, Me, Ivanna and Amy.

A photo of my pretty sisters

Kristal, Angel, Patty and Yumi

I wish I was there too.

4th of July

Yesterday was Dulce's birthday so we celebrated it with fireworks, food, music, cakes and lots of fun. Tanoshikata!
Our fireworks
Victor, our main village man.
Dulce, Santi, Elizabeth, Stephanie and Sebs

The lot of us.Food
Steven, Victor, Santi, Dulce, Leila and Steph
Elizabeth (our maid) and Jesse
A chocolate orange cake that Santi made.

Happy Birthday Dulce!!! You're the sweetest of the sweet.

Witnessing, witnessing and ..OH more witnessing!

Recently we've been doing a lot more witnessing and follow up, as it the plan with the Offensive and it has been really fun. like for instance Anya and I were a team the other day and we met some nice people and one potential supporter kind of guy.His name is George. he took us to starbucks and payed for our taxi home and everything! YAY hallelujah for starbucks. He is really into giving so ofcourse we told him our missionary work need financial support and he told us that one of his friends has an NGO that we can work with and that we should write up a list of all the things that we need, not like food but bigger and better things, and then present it to him and he'll present it to his firneds and they'll help us. but he said he isn't going to help us right away other wise we might drop him after he helps. hah, he doesn't even know. anyway then we came home and we went out again around 11 pm ~ 2:30am for some more witnessing and we met some really nice people, got contact numbers and saved at least 10 souls. The team out at night was Leila, steven, anya, chris and I. we witnessed to people from ireland, north carrolina,and....Peru. we prayed a healling prayer for a guy who had a tumor on his wrist, we laughed, joked and witnessed with a fairly successful punk/rock band and got them all saved, and we generally had a really good time.

Lastnight George invited 4 of us to go to a Casino to watch a jazz show and meet the manager and director of the shows at that Casino.We had a good time and Anya and I are going to meet George again this afternoon for an icecream and some more witnessing. He's got influencial friends so hopefully this will be a door to greater things.
That is just one witnessing testimony, there are many more happenings (ie. I met a 23 year old model a few weeks back and he really needs the Lord but hes a little to proud to admit it but we were able to witness to him and he invited us to his birthday party at some disco this weekend. Fun, fun, more witnessing, more dancing, more goodlooking men and more souls to be saved.)
Here are a few photos of our witnessing.

Eman singing world witout end.
Anya and Leila witnessing to some girls
We met this group of young tourists from Colombia, France, Belguim and London. They were quite nice and though some of them weren't intrested in Jesus they were intrested in Heaven and peace for all mankind.

cake

I have this special cake that I really really like and they have it at the nearby department store(Wong) but ever since I've gotten back from the states they haven't had it and it was very disheartening till one happy, happy day we took a walk to Wong and Lo and behold my special cake was there so I payed for one but when the guy gave me the bag
THERE WERE 2 CAKIES! I though about telling the guy and giving it back to him ( like not selling my soul for a nickel) but I decided that Jesus loves me and wanted us to have an extra piece of cake. And it makes me HAPPY! are you happy?

over due photos

Oceanside beach.

Californian Surfers yay!
When i got stuck in Mexico the first time I went out with Mel and this guy for a walk about and dinner.


Flying back to Peru

I'm back in Peru

and I miss everyone that I met on my trip and all the things that I did up there awww maaan. The people, the dancing, the volley ball...AND its memorial day weekend so we all know what that means I miss it much much more then I should.
But on the other hand I'm excited to be back, I passed out all the presents that I brought home with me, I got to catch up and talk with everyone here, I met the other 'Hill' boy and he is pretty awesome I like him, some more ppl are coming to visit the home and I'm excited about that too! Thank you Jesus!

El Beso Del Final

I have not so much to say except I had an awesome time at stephs birthday party(you can check out a few photos on angels blog) and I am now back in san diego.
I dont know for sure when i am going back to peru.
It could be soon and it could be way later...just dont know yet, but what I do kow is that I love this new/old song that I found. It's kinda sexy.

Well funny things do happen

I got on the plane yesterday from LAX to start what was supposed to a 2 1/2 day trip.
I left LA around 1 pm and i arrive In MEX a few hrs later.I'm in transit, and I go to get the rest of my tickets from the travel agency but wonder of wonders, they tell me that even if I go to LIMA from Chile the Peruvian immigrations wont let me in the country because I've had contact with Mexico. On my ticket it will show that i flew through mex. So the best they said they could do was give me a refund for my roundtrip ticket. I didn't have an option so TTL i've got most of the money back. but this money is not enough to fly me back to the states and then back again to Lima through a diffrent route. Dun DUn DUn DUUUUUN! What do I do, what do I do?
Every once in a while something happens to me and it make me think "TTL for the family ALL AROUND the world." This is one of those times.
Dust and Ahlai's home kindly picked me up from the airport and took me in on freekishly short notice and they are nice anough to let me stay for a few days till i can pray and figure out what the heck i'm supposed to do from here.
Yup funny things do happen.

HOW LONG?!

I've been here 1 month and tomorrow I leave back to Peru.I have a little stop over in Mexico then I hop back on a plane and fly home....at least that's what the plan was. Now, because of this "swine flu" mess, peru is no longer accepting flights from Mexico which means that I am being rerouted to Chile then to Peru. Sound simple enough? It would be if I didn't have a 36 hr layover in chile. That's right I leave here tomorrow on the 8th and arrive back in Peru on the 10th! What kind of mathematics is that?! It should only be a 7 hour flight from here to Peru but no, It has to take 2 1/2 days to make the trip. Sheesh...
Well there had better be someone really inportant for me to meet in Chile because the Lord saw it fit to send me there for 2 days enroute to Peru. Hopefully I dont have to spend all that time in the airport (the airlines are not giving me any sort of accomodations or food coupons for this change) maybe It will work out for me to go and visit a home there in Santiago. That would be cool...cooler still if there are hot single guys there...Anyhow I'm sure everything will work out fine and I will make it home without getting lost or hurt (same goes for my luggage) and I will have some great expirence in Chile. The Jesus is with me so I will not fear. :D

My bothdai

Yesterday was my 21st birthday! YAY! I'm legally an adult.

went to Sizzler, an all you can eat place, for my bithday lunch.
Me, Pat, Mom, Kris and Angel

Came back home to tan and lay out by the pool then we went out again to see a few of our homies at Brunos. Then Kristal and I went to a bar for a shot of Wild Turkey while the others found us a good restaurant to eat dinner at.
Us at a Japanese restaurant.

They gave me this exciting looking birthday hat to wear so I could look like I was extra special.Steph and I. I like her alot.She is fun, sweet, pretty and excited all the time. A jewel to be sure. and shes only a few days younger then I am.

I drove with Kenji on the way home and we rocked out like drunk freeks to every song on the radio and the good times were rolling.
Then after we came home we all got in the pool for some more fun.

...like thisUs in the Jaccusi.
Then since its a must on ones 21st birthday, Kristal took me out clubbing which was really fun. Yay,I'm happy to be 21.
Go to Pats blog for a few more photos if you'd like.

Sunday, freeday

Beautiful day, boys, beach, volley ball, in that order. Combined makes for an Oh happy day. I love it!!

Kristal, Angel and Pat

Oceanside, beach.

mom snaping from behind

Us 4

I wish I had some photos of us playing volley ball. It was really fun. We played for like 4 hrs and in between the games we chatted up thoes guys. I am happy!

provisioning joys

I HAVE NEW CLOTHES!
I'M SOOO HAPPY!
THANK YOU JESUS!
Thank you so much Crystal.
YYYAAAAYYY!!!

Happy Birthday to..

Paula-chan! You're already 22 years old, oh my goodness. I hope you have a really fun year full of love and new surprises. We've been friends for almost 7 years now and although I'm terrible at keeping in touch I still like you just as much as I did when we first met at that first JRteen camp. You were the bomb, and you're still sizzling.
Pretty women, Paula and Marie.
Me and Paula at XD.
Xtreme get out.
Shanthi, Frankie and Paula.
Mari and Paula.

I love you, love you! Even though some times we dont get to talk to eachother for months,whenever we do, we just pick up our friendship right where it left off.I hope i can see you again some day...maybe at your wedding or something..maybe at MY wedding! Whichever comes first. You're a fantastic woman and I love you muchos:*.
Happy Birthday !!

Boat ride

We decided to go boating while there in Mexico so we rented a boat just for us, brought along some beer and had a great time. Here are some of the photos
Kenji, patter, and Me
Kenj sitting on Angel in his kingly manner
Just to happy to be living
We saw some sea lions way up close

Kristal, Me and Angel riding the front of the boat

We went out to choppy waters and were rocking the boat as hard as we could and we got the front end of the boat to dip into the water and rear back up again and again.It was great fun trying to dip the front while trying to keep balanced and stay aboard and trying our best to stay as dry as possible.Good times.
Driving it fast and furious.
LAND HO! DING DI DING!
Kenji doing his best.
Pat practicing for her future 'vogue eyewear' modeling career.
This pose is a winner, Pat. How could the modeling industry NOT want you? If I was tyra you know I would book you in a second.
I'M ON A BOAT! (if you get it, you get it.)
Me and Pat
So I'm sitting there happily enjoying my boat ride, feeling free at last when..
Kenji decides he's had enough of me and attempts..to give me a little shove..INTO THE OCEAN!
Then the shuffle begins, of course with him denying it. (who me? NEVER!)
Push, shove...
FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! (dad's there trying to hold on & make sure neither of us fall over while Kristal just enjoys the spectacle. 'Let them fight dad, there's to many ppl on this boat anyway..')He got me down so I tried to kick him over board with my strong, sturdy legs...

Then he stared tickling me....and... he won...
But the good news is I'm still alive and I managed to keep from falling off.
I am definitely doing this again next year.

wedding photos

Congratulations Angel and Kenji Yamaguchi, Live forever!

Mr. and Mrs Yamaguchi

My fam: Dad, Patty, Me, Angel, Kristal and Mom
Parents of the bride and groom
The happy couple
My good looking parents
Kenj and Ang at the restaurantYummy food

Ang feeding husband a chocolate coverd strawberry
Afterwards we went to alps for happy hour.
In da jacussiWith magaritas and chips

In the house playing and drinking it up
Playing gamesDad lost so he's taking a shot

Kenji, Kristal, Jer
Hik drinking it up.
Congrats Ang for being the first one of us to get married. Kenji is like no other (Captain Kenjo). I'm so glad I'm here to enjoy it with you.
Yay and of to Mexico we goooo.

All of us sisters from the first set are here with mama and paps and today is a happy day. We are now readying ourselves for the marriage. It's gunna be a simple ceremony at the courthouse then we have reservations for lunch at a nice restaurant then we'll be off to happy hour.
Photos will follow.

USA

I'm sitting here in the new apartment we moved to on Saturda, doing my transcribing job and eating 1 1/2 ltrs of ice cream. YAY!(good icecream in Peru is pricey so i'll make the most of what I can get while I'm here.) I'm happy. This apartment complex has got a jacuzzi and a swimming pool that we can go to an time we feel like. The food we're having has, of course,been delicious(its easy to make good food if there is less people.) and yesterday, Easter sunday, we were invited to go over and have dinner at the 'Alps' home. It was really good and the fellowship was great as well.
Yes, thank you,I am having myself a good time.

Treasures

Pat look at these jewels I found in your blog archives. We look smashing!

Yay and I'm gunna see you soon so be ready.

On a different note ; I really wish I could be back in Japan right now for Sakura. There are so many good memories of Sakura and its so sad that this is the first Sakura I've missed since we started way back when I was 13.
Good times, good times...

I'm so happy!

I went to the beach this weekend with the other young people here,we stayed with our friend at his beach house and it was lovely. We did all sorts of good things like played volley ball and American football, had some romantic moon-lit walked along the beach, saw some delicious looking men(HALLELUJAH!) , got a beautiful tan, made some yummy food, ate an ice cream, had a fun time in the water tacking the huge, clear blue waves, watched the sunset and had many good conversations. YAY!
I'm leaving to the states in 2 days and I still gotta pack and do a few other important things before leaving so pray for me!

Let everything that hath breath..

Praise equals happiness. You might not be wreathed in smiles, but the corners of your mouth can turn up, even if just a little. That is the nature of praise coming through. Praise will make you a happy person.


Praise not only brings us into Gods presence, but it brings Him into our presence. In other words, it attracts His Spirit to be present with us and then to work in the situation as we need and desire. Praise activates God's power. Praise releases the help from the spirit world that we need. Praise is one of the most effective and positive ways of defeating the Enemy.

Smile, under any conditions, and keep on smiling. Smiling exudes a spirit of happiness and faith, which shows those who are watching you that Jesus lives and breathes and works through you. Smile, and you will be a true reflection of His Spirit.

an old photo

We all look a lot like mommy now that I think about it...

Nieve Nieve

La CasaLvRm

Dng RmOutside Dinning
Stairs
Balcony
Pool
Fountain


This is the gorgeous 'Swiss-Family-Robinson' like resort I just came back from. It's about 1 hour away from Lima,is completely secluded from anything and everything(ie, no internet, no phone lines, no TV, Nada.) and is owned by Santiago(who is an MMer). He invited this young guy,Ed, who comes from the high society of Lima, to go there and asked Stephanie and me if we wanted to go there too for a few days to help him witness to Ed with our music and happy, smiley faces.
So we stayed there 4 days and the first night I was there I was like "Ahh its so boring, I want to go home." But of course after 4 days of music, witnessing, pool, FANTASTIC food(Santi is a professional pastry chef and teaches at a cooking school), night time bubble baths, prophecy time, and nothing to worry about, I wished the excursion could have lasted a few days longer.
I must've gained 1 kg a day the food and deserts were so good. It was so relaxing I didn't even know I needed that time away to unwind and find peace of spirit. It was really, really nice...I'm so going back there again in a few months to do it all over again. TYL

Hola Peru..again

I made it back home without getting lost, having my things stolen, or having difficulties at the borders so I would say this was an all together lovely and successful trip.
The worst that happened was that I was out of money so I pretty much starved on the way back home. See what I did was I spent the last of my money on a nice sandwich, some yummy apples and plums in Chile for my trip back home and I was happily set but when I got to the border of Peru they took the bag of food away cuz you cant carry fruit across the border. I was heart broken, I wanted to eat those apples and no matter how much I smiled they wouldn't give my food back to me (damn them). Yup there was nothing I could do about it. But the Lord was kind and supplied a bag of Cheetoes for me to munch on.(They'd never tasted so good.)
Chile was great. The weather there was perfect, the beaches were lovely, the country is clean(er then peru), the chocolate was cheap, and the company was good.
Well I'll be leaving again in 1 month to see mi familia in America and that should be fun. It's the next big thing I'm planing for. Yay! I haven't been to the US in 4 years and I think I'm gunna like being in a country where I can understand the language.

I´m in Chile and its todo bien. Crossing borders was easier then I thought ( The guy at imigrations not only stamped my passport but also gave me his email address along with it.)
We went to the beach today and I now have a beautiful tan, much better then the last tan I had anyway.
I´ll be staying 1 more day then its back to peru and 24 hrs on the bus but this time by my lonesome.
It´s to bad my camera is broken. if it wasn´t there would be many photos to go with this post.
Well, well I´m of to have some delicous chilean wine. Cheers

Visa trip

I'm going to Chile on a 5 day road trip for my visa. Pray it goes really well and that I don't lost anything or get robbed or lost or killed. I'm going with 3 family guys that came here to Peru on a road trip and they happen to be on their way to Chile so I'm joining the wagon, its perfect timing.
I hear that the bus ride is anywhere from 14 ~ 24 hrs, one way. Yikes! I'm gunna spend the weekend there in Chile and we're gunna go to a beach, yay! (Sucks that my cameras memory card is not working,I wont have any photos from this trip.I'm sad.)
Anyway i'm depending on your prayers since i dont speak spanish and if anything happens I'm screwed.

Happy Birthday Family

We had a little bbq out on our terrace for our 41st family birthday celebration. It was nice and simple. We heard stories from Rufus about the "Early days"(he joined in 1970) and it was so funny and plain ol' groovy to hear all of that. Then we had a little inspiration (everyone has coughs so we didn't last long), a cake and we watched the movie "Yes man" which is a good prelude to the feast materials. Yay!

(P.S. I'm taking some antibiotics for my cough but its still strong so any and all prayers will be appreciated. I miss jogging...)

Friday the 13th

Was a nightmare. I got sooo sick. It started out as a cough a couple of days back but hit me, and all the other girls in my room, like a bomb. I came down with a fever, had a crazy headache and my coughing got really really strong it felt like I was going to cough out my stomach.
I was cold, then I was sweating buckets, My coughing would make my head feel like it was gunna explode and the worst, I almost fainted. It happens just like in the movies. I got super dizzy, then I got the loud ringing in my ears, then I couldn't hear anything expect my very loud and glorified breathing then on the verge of having an extremely hard fall, I sent up a prayer and was saved by none other then the Almighty himself. No joke.
I'm so thankful I didn't faint, I'm so thankful my fever only lasted a day, I'm so thankful my headache is pretty much gone and I'm so thankful it's been a really long time since i've been sick and hopefully will be a really long time before I get sick again.
Please pray that I don't get a relapse and that this crazy cough goes away asap. It's not nice being sick. I hope you're well!

Turn around baby

So funny I found this song on the family members and it brings back a whole bunch of hilarious memories of the summer witnessing event we had at the F.I.T. center back in 2006. Seiko you know I'm talking to you ;).
Mark, Amanda,MJ, Melinda, Yuto, Richie, Pat, Yurika, Rosy, Seiko, Mariea, Hikari and a part time Dan Dan were all a part of making that summer witnessing experience an unforgettable one. (Although I've tried many times to forget, believe me.) Mimi loves you all.Peace and love, smoochie woochi woo. Hurray for Clay and the twin guy! Hurray for silly games that went to far! Hurray for Suma beach! Hurray for beef packets! Hurray for the FIT center and the terrible climb it was to get to A+! Hurray for a funny Indian dance taught to us by Seiko! Hurray for Tokushima!

HURRAY for memories!!

P.S. Seiko if you still have that Indian song around somewhere send it to me cuz I really want it.

New old pics

It's been a while since I've posted photos, my camera's memory chip has a virus on it. So I went through my photos and I'll post a few that I dont think you've seen yet. We'll start in Japan then make our way towards Peru.

DeSantis family in Japan. This one you might have already seen but we all look happy and it's kind of for my Mam.
The Spring and I. (She's to beautiful.)
Me and Yurika being good witnessers.

Last photo with the girls from Kobe.
Giving Cathy a final squeeze before leaving for the airport.
...Moving on to Peru...

Area fellowship with all generations groovin'.


Jeremy and sister Stephanie.Being a little bit gay...we love you.

Yay I'm so glad

I get to make a trip to the states, go to Angels marriage, see a portion of my family there, buy many needed items, take a little time away from home life to try out road-trip life, and much more. I am a happy little oyster.
I'll see you guys there. Weeehooo!

I...

want to go to Lamu. I want my yummy pizza chips and some oishi, sesame covered mochi and deep fired chikuwa and it doesn't end... It never ends...
Sniffle sniffle.

New woman

We got a live-in maid. This will be a new experience. She's 26 years old and has never really been down to lima. She's been living in farmland. I don't know how to feel about it though. Should I be happy shes here to keep our house clean or should I be sorry that she's going to be our maid. it's a little confusing at the moment but the good thing is we are giving her room and board and paying her a little and we'll be including her in our fun recreational times.
Anyways yeah, just that.

PAULAAA, I know you're out there!

This is just a shout to my karaazie friendito Paulita to let her know that she's da' bomb and it would be a good time for her to hear from the lord about moving in with me and marrying me and then having a big family with me and taking care of all the children while I tarry to make enough money to support us.( You are too good with kids to be taken of them.) Paula, the lord has been putting this on my heart for a while now and I havent been able to shake it so I fugure I'll be a good messenger and just go ahead and let you know about your future plans. So there is no need to worry about your future, me and the Lord already work it out.

Te Amo.

I hate teeth nerves, l think I'll get rid of them

My teeth are so mean to me. I'm getting a root canal tomorrow. Thank God for provisioning and nice dentists.
(P.S. TYJ for pain killers. I would be dead without them.)

some oldie photos I found

Pretending to be tranquil.
This is more me. Me and Mercy.
This guy is awesome, pure awesomeness.
Dawn, you beautiful woman you.
shakin da' boootay.

Happy new year

We ended 2008 with snacks games,

and the funnest candle light service I've ever had!
And kicked off 2009 with a lot of fireworks, screaming on our roof top, running around outside and, again, screaming our heads off, and dancing for hours till we all were nearly dead. It was fantastic!

I always knew you had it in you Kris...

Look at this photo I found of Kristal and a child looking peaceful and happy and sweet together. Awwww. Que lindo.

Also this I found and its funny.

Cmas photitos

Merry Christmas to my family, my friends and my lovers. I hope you all had a good one. I had 2. One at Stephanie's grandparents house, with the turkey and the whole bit, and one at home with home members.
At the grandparents we stayed up talking and eating till 12, cuz we were going to open the presents at midnight, then all these fireworks went of around the neighborhood and we went outside to watch. Then we opened the present. woopdiedo.
The second one was just a home dinner and thats what these photos are from

Me and Leila

Rufus and I
Leila, Me & Anya.

A lot of us.
Lara and Johnathan being lovers......gross...;)
Karen, Leila, Lara, Me and Anya
Merry Christmas everyone. Aishitemasu!

Happy Birthday

Happy 19th pat!
19 is so close to 20.
You are missed and you are loved.
sorry no photo.

Yesterday was Laras birthday so she invited us over to her house for a sleep over. We had pizza, drinks( she turned 18 and was "legally" allowed to drink.) a big, colorful cake, her awesome brothers,( Trivia: Lara's oldest brother is a famous soccer player. He plays for the national team and is going to join the national team in Belgium soon.), alot of singing and talking and yeah just that.

The Birthday girl with her crazy cake.
Lara, Leila and Mwa.

We had 2 big pizzas for just the 4 of us girls. Don't tell me you're not jealous. Steph, Lara and Leila.

We were foolish enough to stay up till 4:30 when the next day we had a show at 10:30. Yup pretty much.
Happy birthday Larita!

Youtube

Here is a little clip of us being famous and singing on TV. It starts around the 45 second mark. the link

Cmas shows

So things have been busy and fun and the Lord is opening some crazy doors for us to go through and it's all pretty exciting. here are a few photos from a few of the places the Lord has been leading us to.

Singing on live TV and just, you know,being famous.
Our group with Mr. and Mrs. Claus
Singing at the Hotel Bolivar
Being on TV with some famous magicians.

The guy in back is supposed to be a Christmas tree. Hehe
And one for the road.

Military show

Last night we Had a show for 1,200 military ppl and their families. It was muy divertido ( so fun) and I was all swoons and giggles the whole night. What can I say? The outfits do it for me EVERY time. I have more photos from other shows we've had but this one we did for the cadets deserves a whole post of its own.
Top L to R: Steph, Leila, Lara, Mimi. Bottom L to R: Jonny, Johnathan, Emanuel, Richardo.


Leila, Mimi, Chris and Steph.

Steph and Lara showing Johnathan some love.Johnathan, Mimi.

Rufus doing what he does best. (These are some salsa dancers that were dancing all over the place last night.)I know its hard to see but all those white collars behind me are Military guys!!! If they were American guys I probably would've died right there.
Steph, Mimi, Uniform, and Leila.

Chris and I.
I have a video of our show that I hope I'll be able to upload for all of you to see. The video shows the huge crowd of ppl that were there watching us. Yay for the uniform!

1st Show this year

Ok here are photos from our first show this year. It was in thanksgiving day. Enjoy!


The whole gang Singing into one of those cool mics

Feliz Navidaaad

Smiles

Jingle bells lalala..

Ding dong ding..

Leilabee , Me, LaLa, and Stephaleecie

WOOOHOOO!

Yay, and it was fun and lara needs to work on her smiling.

We are going to have a bunch more shows from now till Dec 25th. Yay.

My week in lights

This week was busy and I liked it. A few of the highlights are:
Thursday: we went to have that dinner with Lara's friend.YUM.
Friday: we went to a recording company to audition for a spot on stage at a big shopping mall in Lima. And we got it. (Our show group will be doing a show every weekend in December for these ppl,hopefully we'll get even more shows for other ppl.)
Saturday: Went out shopping for our outfits and I made up a new dance for 'ding dong ding'.
Saturday night: We went out to a disco with Laras friends and had a good time.(photos of this event are coming.)
Sunday: We went to the beach again and it was niiiice and rellllaaaxing AND I SAW DOLHPINS!!! I did I did! There were like 5 of them!!! wooohoooo! They weren't there for very long but next time i'm gunna snap a photo of them.
Sunday night: watched "The Love Guru". hehe its so funny, you should see it.
So that's my week in a nutshell. We are doing lots of practicing so pray our show comes together just the way I want it too. hehe no , just the way Jesus wants it too.

A lot

I've been doing a lot.
Going out a lot, cleaning a lot, cooking a lot, dancing a lot, singing a lot, meeting a lot of new peoples and generally maximizing on my happy life.
Me and Steph went to a Halloween party, the next day we went to a birthday party of one of the guys from the previous night. On the weekend we had an area fellowship/BBQ. Hurray for food.
Rufus, Jer and Mark came back from the states after having been gone for 1 month, and this Saturday night we went to the house of one of Lara's friends to chill out.
The house is so nice and has a huge pool that we are invited to come back and party in when they fill it up. (still a bit chilly for swimming.)
Yesterday, on free-day, we went to Lara's house.It was funny cuz we like got out of the taxi and started looking for her house but the whole neighborhood looks exactly same so of course we got lost and we're looking around for people to get directions from and no one speaks English, Stephanie doesn't want to speak Spanish. We were happily stumbling around the nieghborhood calling "Lara..Laaaraa". Then Steph sees the guy with dark, wavy brown hair and gets all excited and asks him for directions and hes like " you're looking for Lara?"....hah, yes we're looking, have been for 10 minutes now:). And he goes " yeah I've seen you girls in a photo. Her house is right there." I'z like, "...was it a good photo?"
Yes so anyway we got to her house then decided to have a walk around her neighborhood while wearing a cowboy hat and a party mask. That was kinda exciting and Lara was pretty much, completely embarrassed. So there we are looking like retards with these things on our heads and then...we bump into her man friends. One of them was the guy we asked directions from. heh, how charming. Anyway we hung out with them for the rest of the day AND AND one of the guys, Clive, is a cook and He invited us to go to his house this Thursday for a nice, home made meal. I repeat, hurray for food! For good food!
I have photos of the guys but I think my camera has a virus or something on it cuz all the photos come off the cam but they don't upload at all.
That's an over due update for y'all.

Oh just in case I forget,

I saw my future husband today at the local department store. Oh My Good God, he was so good looking. (Way happily for free, Pat.) And he wasn't even a blondie. Kris you told me that you'd be over here on the next flight if I ever saw someone Rodrigo Santoro looking. I'd suggest you go ahead and book that flight.
That's all, Good night. I'm going to pray, and pray hard.

Music obsessions

Guys, this is my newest song obsession.It's a duet by Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini. You have to have a listen, it's so nice.
A little while ago this song was the obsession. It's still pretty fun so if you like, take a look.

Watch out for the sun?

hola this is Stephanie here to tell you all about me and Mimi's weekend

Free night rolled around again and this time we were invited to go to the other home to witness to some guys from a rock band and dear lord, the singer of the band had a FANTASTIC voice!(Mimi: It was so good, no wonder he's pro. I wanted to listen to him sing all night long.) And the guitarist played beautifully! We witnessed to them and sang a few songs for them and they invited Mimi and me to sing with them cuz they wanted to try out songs for their band with girl voices, yippee! yeah so we were all flattered and happy to be famous.
On free day our surfer friends invited us to go to the beach, much nicer then the one we went to last free day. this beach was a sand beach and the water was so pretty, pretty.We had a nice day at the beach, ate seviche(Mimi: which is raw fish seared in lemon juice served with purple onions and sweet potatoes. It's really fantastic,one of my favorite Peruvian dishes and I don't even like Japanese sashimi so that is saying something for this raw fish over here.) and other scrumptious seafoodish things, but sadly little did we know it and as much as we tried not too, we got UTTERLY sun-burnt!! Yeah you should see us, we look like little lobsters, and i got it the worst cause it's only on one side! well, let this be a lesson to us all, may we always wear sunscreen.- Love Stephalee
Mimi: I burnt really bad and all around so after we got home I borrowed some cream and put it all over my sun burn. I did it like 10 times cuz my skin was just drinking up all the cream. Then I woke up today and I'm looking an unusual color I'm thinking "geez, is this how a second day sunburn is supposed to look?" So I took a look at the bottle of cream I'm using and its a "natural glow, daily moisturizer creating a healthy glow all year long by just moisturizing. Designed for medium/dark skin tones." Yeah basically it's give my skin a healthy looking tan but since it's on top of my sunburn I've successfully turned orange. I guess there is a first time for everything, including having your face, arms, back and legs a striking orange. But since we're close to Halloween maybe I can convince people it's going to be a part of my "pumpkin" costume. Yup there's the Romans 8:28 for this situation.
Oh, Oh, Oh, and after we had finished swimming and we were laying on the beach watching the sunset we saw, check this out, a sea lion! A freekin sea lion was like 5 meters off the beach swimming around,catching fish and having itself a good time. I watched it for like 15 mins. It was crazy! I loved it! Next time I'm hoping to see dolphins:D. Hells yeah!

Another update

Steph and I went out on free night with Lara to her friends house for a little party. When I first got there I was like "...hmmm.... how long do we have to stay here?" But it ended up being fun. When I first got there I was a little stiff and unfriendly but after a while we all relaxed and had a good time.The guys were cool and we had some fun dancing and drinking. After I relaxed and was more myself, the guys were like "Mimi's drunk" and Lara and steph go, "no that just her." heh weirdos.
The next day when I woke up it was Sunny, sunny, sunny. This is the second time in 1 month that I've woken up to a sunny morning. Here the weather is overcast, some times for days on end, but on days that we're lucky the sun will come out around 12:00ish then it'll stay till 5 and goes back into 'overcast' mode. But yesterday was clear ALL day and even through the night!! YAY! I saw 6 stars last night.:D how many did you see?
For breakfast we had pringles and a tub of chocochip icecream (that Lara had kindly bought for us the night b4) then we went to the beach. Usually, like for G.O. or free-day, we'll walk to this huge park/shopping place that has a really great view of the beach but no road or path to get down there. like this photo here. This was the first time for me to actually go to the beach.
The beach is all rocky so its not the best good for swimming but its no problem for surfing.(There were lots of surfer dudes there Seiko.) People do swim there though, they just wear shoes of some sort.It's still to cold to swim so we brought the guitar along to have something to do besides the typical 'drooling over all the hotties who are crazy enough to be out in the cold water.' We stayed a couple of hours at the beach singing, talking, starring at guys, throwing rocks,soaking up the sun and just generally enjoying life. All was good and well till I broke my sunglasses. Yup, those sunglasses I bought just b4 coming here, I broke them...sure did. Elbowed them right in the nose. Kuuurunch. A sad ending to an otherwise happy day.
But anyway, now I'm looking forward to learn how to surf. I have someone who is going to teach me how to once summer comes around.Yay!

I have a blog?

Geez, sorry for forgetting I had a blog. Of course I meant to post but my camera kind of broke so I figured I would wait till my camera got fixed to post, cuz I like to post with photos every time, but my camera is STILL broken and the photos wont be coming off to soon so this will be a nonphoto post.

I'm pretty much loving it here. When I first came there were 19 ppl living here and now there are 9 ppl in the house. & of the 19 actually 7 moved out to start a new home and 3 members of this team are in NYC fund raising. So the house is a bit quieter but I figured I would make up for all the noise that the other 10 would've been making so I'm still having a great time.
There is a good amount of things happening everyday that I never really have time to be bored. And in the rare occasion when I do get bored, I just have to find Steph and with in a few minutes and after a few laughs, cuddles, and candy and/or chocolate, I'm feeling fabulous.
Oh but speaking of chocolate, it's really expensive here. Even more so then Japan. It's sad but true.
Anyway that is my update. Love y'all.

Zee Opera Ouse

Front, side, other side.

Ballet

Lara, one of this homes Active members, invited Stephalee and I to go see a ballet with her.
The story was about a priestess who goes for a walk in the garden one night and falls in love with "Mystery Man". "Mystery Man", who happens to be a prince, is awed by this priestess but upon arriving back at the palace is told that he is to marry Princess "it's-profitable-for-the-kingdom". At first he refuses but then is convinced by the king that this infatuation with "priestess" is a passing thing. So Prince get engaged to Princess, then Princess finds out that Prince is possibly in love with Priestess so Princess invites Priestess over to the palace to tell her to leave Prince alone. Priestess tells Princess that she may have his body but she has his heart. Princess gets upset and they have a bitch fight and Priestess almost kills Princess. So Priestess goes to Prince and tells him to choose between them, and Prince chooses Princess. Drama, Drama, Drama. Prince and Princess have their big wedding party and Priestess is told to dance for them. As she is dancing she is handed a basket of flowers with a poisonous snake inside and the snake bites her and she DIEEES!!! That night the Prince is inconsolable, feeling guilty and everything, and smokes Opium then goes into dreamland where he meets Priestess and they dance a dance of love. Then as he comes of the high he realizes he is truly in love with Priestess and he kills himself to be with her in Never Never Land forever...The End

Sorry, all the photos have been uploaded backwards with the first acts at the bottom and the final acts at the top.
Dream land




Death

the wedding dance
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the wedding party


Bitch fight

Engagement party and lots of dancing






prince told to marry princess

Meeting in the garden



temple

Girls night out

I went To town with the girls the other night. We originally got all dressed up to go to see a ballet that was supposed to be playing, but we got the date wrong and the ballet was the next night. heh. But seeing as we were already dressed up we decided to go out regardless.
We went to a bar, got a little snack, man watched, did a bunch of talking and basically had a great time.
I also found out that I can't even glance at a guy without him taking it as an invitation to "come on over, sit in the vacant chair and follow us for the next hour even though we've already: said no, good bye, I'm very married, I'm a lezbo ( haha, just kidding I would never say a thing like that..:), ignored them, tried to hide from them and just generally showed a huge amount of disinterest. They just don't get it. Oh well, I'll just have to learn sneaky ways to deal with it;).

The girls getting all bootified.

Our snack.

Balieys coffee with whipped cream and banana cake. yuuum!

Me and Lara

Hungry for luuuv.( Come on stephalee, come on.)

Stephalee giving the look.

Lara passed out on my shoulder.

...yeah we don't know what we're doing...

Quacky was a duck and a little duck was he..

Naughty and nice, evil and good, the dark side and the right side, hate and love, etc..

Food? I like food.

This home has some pretty good provisioning. We have a regular bread contact, fruits and veggies contact and a chicken contact so I'm looking at a pretty fattening year ahead of me.PTL.

Coconut is ricco, so ricco.

I like.

Oh also patty, they provision pears. Oops I did it again:p.... For real.

CTP

Yesterday we did a CTP at this kindergarten. It was for this little boy who had lost one of his eyes to cancer.

The kids there were sooo cute. At first I was like “geez…kids…” but they turned out to be lovely. ( also we only had to be with them for 1 hr, not to long, heh.) We did the "2 little kittens" song , a relay race, and some dancing. Eman, Jeremy, Sebastien, Stephalee and Jesse did a lovely job with the show.

This cancer boy was so cute! He was into popping the balloons with his mouth it was so funny to watch. He was all vicious about it and when he would pop one, he would look around all happy like. hahha it was precious. I heart him!


Here are some of the other kidies.





Awwww, so cute. It was good, it was good. Children can be so precious...at times...

For Kristal

Before I came to Peru the girls and I went to a second hand store to find some clothes. We found this and instantly thought of you.Isn't that just the kind of dress you would like? hehe

Stephalee

Lara
Stephalee
inspiration
Girls
More inspiration.

Hey everyone i'm stephanie, mimi's new roomate. i'm going to update all of you on what she's been doing last week. okey, when she first arived we like totally bonded! and so we've been doing girl stuff togeather ( she's just so easy to like) we all got sick and started dying for like 3 days but now were better. she's really enjoying it here atleast she better be.! actually she's been lazying around every day but today her name has been put on the schedual so her days of sanctuary are now over ehehehe.

okeys lets get specific. last night we had an inspiration night and people from the other homes here in lima came and we played games and sang songs till like super late. and there's this really sweet girl whos gonna join the family and she comes over every now and then she's super pretty and sweet so she's like a third adition to our group of girlfriends yay! her name's lara oh yeah and we ate queish!

anyway...I'm bored of this so I'm done.

Haha so that's an intoduction to stephalee, my little roomie. She's a cuddly little bug like my yurika(but dont cha worry yurika, no one could ever take this special place I have for you in my kokoro.) I asked her to write up soemthing cuz I'm just to lasy to do it myself. There is more to come but this is it for now cuz this computer is sloooooow and it wears me all out. Enjoy amigos.

oh sunny days

I like sunny days, they make me so happy.

Jewel and I having our beauty captured on film.

Free Hugs

We went frugging for the last time all together at sannomiya and



and Nakoki showed up so i tried to give him a hug..


then something bad happened..my sunglasses broke..sniffle.

But anyway witnessing went well and we got like 20 souls that evening.

and a few for good measure.I miss schoo.

Catch up

I haven't posted anything in like 2 weeks so and I apologize. I have successfully made it to peru and so far, so good. I just have a bunch of photos I took during the last week I was there in japan and I didnt have to time to upload them when I was there so these next few posts will be those leftover photos. then once that is done I'll post photos and things on zis new cantorie

So I took my pa to Brazillia ( an all-you-can-eat meat place) for his birthday. A little late, I know, but it's delicious anytime.



mmmm...

Freeday

Yesterday was freeday so we made a trip to RokkoIsland. Here are some photos.
Yay!

Guy.
Pap.

Deedee
Heehee.
A sick photo of my pained face.

The Naruse girls.
Haha we're such stalkers. We were looking for guyjins the whole time we were there and then someone saw him on the other side of the park place and goes, "hey is that a guyjin?? " So we zoomed in,snapped this shot, then laughed about how disgusting we are to do this. hehe.
We had fun and it was good.

Hair cut pics

My hair was tickling my *** so I decided it was time for a snip snip. Below are the results. Enjoy! (Oh also I look basically the same in every photo...yeah..)



So, what do you think?




I don't care what you think, I like it.

Memories

Here are some photos from a roadtrip that I went on in 2004, when I was visiting UNO, that brings back fabulous memories.
This roadtrip was great because we actually tried to provision everything we needed like a place to stay, food, gas etc and Jesus came through for us is many cool, memorable ways. (If you live in Japan you'll know how difficult and un-japanese it is to provision those important thing.)Also prior to this roadtrip I had never done provisioning so I was all proud of myself when I provisioned KFC in my very first try!! ( Alright fine, Akira did all the talking but I was standing there smiling and radiating Gods love so strongly I'm sure that is what got us the chicken.)

The team was: Abe, Sunny, Akira, Tomoki, Paula, Mia and me. Can't go wrong with a crowd like that.
ARRRGG! Fierceness. (Hehe, Akira and Sunny kind of missed the whole "fierceness" energy.)
...Mine is bigger then yours. ( Tom, that's the sexiest pose I've ever seen you give)

Happy campers, yay!!
We've got to do it again someday, amen?

Megan Fox

Megan Fox is so so so hot. Sure she may have had a little plastic surgery but if, when its done, she can look like this then it's all worth it.









...ahh, I can't get enough of her.

Tokushima

So we went on a road trip to Tokushima again this year from Aug 11th~ 16th and it was fabulous thanks to these 2 retarded sisters who kept me company and made okane for me the whole time. You guys are Ayssum!
We where camped by the beach and we slept almost all day, ballooned all evening, stargazed at night and got to watch people go crazy at the awaodori. Definitely worth making this trip annually.

Here are a few shots of our trip.


Ballooning.

In the tent

Weird and frightened
Yurika and Jewel

Getting some love at the beach

Eating at Osho
Random..
And after 4 days of mad music,consistently scanning the crowd for cuties, star gazing, and ballooning, we ended the trip with a swim at Awaji island and a dinner at Osho.

It was great! They did all the work, I got all the cash. No wonder I like you girls.

....And God saw that it was good.

Pics

I went to Tamba the other day to see these lovlies before I leave them...

(Mia's new hair do)
( my very own Teri)
(Pat, I tried to get something naughty of M&M but this was about as naughty as it got. hehe.) ( Daichi giving some love)

....for these new lovlies.

I wonder if I'm making the right choice.

Purikuras

You guys look so cute in these photos I'm sure you wont mind me putting them up here for everyone else to see.
Here's Yurika , Richie, and Lisa getting close and loving.


Chu.

Start of something new

Hi, I'm Mimi.

I'm staring this blog because I'm moving and I'll have new, exciting things to tell you that Patty or Hikari wont be writing on their blogs. I figured up till now I didn't really need one because not too much was happening here that patty or hik wouldn't post about. I tried to get my other one back but it didn't really work so I've decided to start a new one.
Hopefully,since I just bought my self a digital cam, this blog will have many exciting photos for your viewing pleasure.
Yay! Me and Yurika love you
( No yurika will not be blogging here with me. I just figured she loves you too.)