Soccer, Soccer and more Soccer!

ESPANA! Or Spain as we call it in the US, just won the world soccer cup! And I just got done washing out my mohawk that I did just for this occasion (note: I did not shave my head I just spiked it.) I will post pictures later.
Monday will be my 1st day of filming the soccer camp. It will be a challenge because not only will I have to take and capture (download) it, but I will also have to edit as much as I can each day. I will be needing your prayers very much. Pray that I will have an eye to catch what I need each day. Also pray that I could get a good sleep, I have been waking up several times each night.

Pictures!

Just some pictures I've taken. All of these and from "Saint johns eve" a big holy day here, celebrating the start of summer.
This is Judith and her Uncle.^
(From left to right) Jonathan, Jonathan's brother-in-law,Dad, and Mom
Mrs. Banegas cooking the shrip.
Most of the Banegas' and the young life staff

Mr. Banegas
Yum!

Me with a shrimp.Me after the shrimp


Litia
(From left to right) Mrs. Banegas Noemi,Judith,Litia,Jonathan.

Change of plans.

Ummm... Well...you see...


...THE 1st SOCCER CAMP WAS CANCELED!!!

Jonathan and I did not know that when the basketball camp was canceled, so was the 1st soccer camp.
So there are no camps this week. But the 2nd soccer camp will still be running next week. This all happened because when Jonathan asked questions about me filming, the people who run the base store (you can find their website in an earlier post) thought he was talking about next week. So there was a lack of communication on the part of the soccer camp in not telling Jonathan that the 1st camp was canceled. All in all, this means that I will have more time to make the DVD menu and to learn some more Spanish. I am trying very hard to lean the language and can have a conversion-ish thing with people, if I can point and say "este es?" and "cómo se de se ___ en espanol?". What I find hard is how you have to use a new word for each situation. I keep having to ask if I say "buen" or "bueno," while in English I would just say "good" for both.
Right now I am getting ready for a sort of holiday. There is going to be a lot of fireworks and we will stay up late having a feista.
Please pray that I would get the sleep I need to function properly. I usually wake up once or twice in a night, and can't fall asleep after I wake up for the second time. This morning I woke up with bags under my eyes. Mrs. Benagas was worried, so I had two small cups of coffee and my hands started shaking. I guess the coffee here is very very strong because at home I have a big cup of coffee each morning and am fine. I will try to get some pictures up latter on. God Bless.

Update

Saturday I went to Universal studios Spain. Yes I did ride some rides and hanged out with the youth, but I also got in some good practice with the camera, and some good practice with my Spanish. Litia and I play a game where I will point at something and ask (in Spanish) "How do you say___ in Spanish" and she would say it and I would repeat it after her, then I would say it in English and she would repeat it. Or we would do the same with her pointing at something and I would try to say it in Spanish and she would try to say it in English.
I went to church with Jonathan today and had a good time there, even I could not under stand it except for a few words I liked it because they do a lot of singing and prayer and then have a shorter sermon. I also met Elaina's parents and found out that they have been to the grand canyon and that they liked it. So when they found out I was from the same place they associated me with it and greeted me warmly. I will most likely start filming tomorrow because Jonathan's in laws are visiting.
Right now I am getting ready for lunch and trying to stop my running nose.
Prayer requests: That I could get over this cold that I have, I can not stop sneezing and have to carry a tissue with me everywhere. Also I still need to learn more Spanish and get used to the great food.

Thank you for keeping up please excuse any tYpose.
(Get it? Never mind.)

Take'n it easy

Today we just relaxed and rested, something I needed very much. I was able to get my hands on some soccer or football as they call it here images to start making the DVD. Right now I am getting ready for bed and a big day tomorrow, Jonathan will be taking a big group of youth to a theme park and I will be coming along to film it, not that it will be made into anything but so I can get used to using the camera before the soccer camps. The camera is a dvx1ooB pictured at the top of this post.
And this is the soccer camps web site (I know it is all in Spanish but it still looks cool eh?) :http://www.base.net/#/nosotros/eventos Please pray that I will have skill in what I will be doing and that I will grow accustom to the food because although it is all good it just goes right through me.

Well I would like to start by telling you that just before I left Remington told me to have as many adventures as I could… I said I would. (This is how I know God has a sense of humor.)

The flight from Phoenix to Los Angeles was fine it was as soon as I got off the plane that the trouble started. The 1^st thing I did was ask someone which gate my flight to London was at and how to get there.

I was told to go down one floor and out to a bus, my flight was in another building. I have had to do this before so I thought it wouldn’t be that hard… then I walked outside, there were about 10 busses at any given time all coming and going every which way. When I finally got the nerve to jump on a bus that I thought would take me to the right place I found that no one else on it was going to London (most of them were on their way to Tahiti) when the bus stopped at the building I was supposed to be at I started fallowing the signs to where my gate was. I then went through the security point, right before I went through the scanner three security personal yelled something and I as well as everyone else were told not to move, after a little while someone yells “All clear!” and everyone acts like nothing had happened.

Then I walk through the scanner…and then I got taken aside. It was my harp, it’s always the harp.

So they check it and ask me if I have anything that could hurt someone in my harp case, I said no and was sent on my way.

As I walked through the halls leading to my gate I noticed a change in the look of the airport, the paint, or lake thereof, was making me wonder if this part of the airport was still open and that I somehow missed a sign telling me otherwise. But I made my way through the construction and at the end (I mean the very end) of the building there were a few chairs and people waiting for the flight to London.

Let’s stop for a second and thank God that I made it that far. But the worst is yet to come.

When I got to London I found the airport was much, much bigger than I could have imagined.

When I was in Phoenix I was told that I would have to pick up my bags in London. So once again the 1^st thing I do is ask someone where to pick up my bags I was then told that I shouldn’t have to pick them up at all and to just go to my next flight but something told me that I would need to get my luggage (if you ask me it was Gods had watching over me) so I decided to get a second opinion. I found the help desk and asked if I needed to get my bags they said yes and (like everyone else) they told me to “Just follow the signs”. Well after going in a circle for a while I noted that the baggage claim was through customs.

Off through customs it was, I got a little paper to fill out with the basic stuff on one side, name, home, age, and so on. On the other side was a lot of information that I had to copy from my passport such as passport #, date of issue, expiration date, you get the idea. When I get up to the customs desk they tell me that I need a parents’ consent but that they would let that go because I was most likely going to miss my flight. Oooook. So I run to the baggage claim where I quickly find my bag, mostly because it is the only one left. Yet again I ask someone how to get to my gate and yet again it is in another building, what are the chances? So I think “ok, this is just like LA I can do this...” but that was one of my biggest mistakes it was not like LA at all, the busses only took you into London. After running up and down asking everyone I met if they knew which bus would take me to terminal and everyone telling me over and over “just follow the signs”. So after a long while I see a sign that says to terminals 1,2,3,4 this is the sign I started to fallow. I found that it did not lead to the busses but to a tram. So I get on the tram and it takes me to terminal two and I find the check in desk and they tell me that my flight is closed…but I could go on the next one in about two hours. Let’s stop and thank God again shall we? After I get done doing just that I call my mom and dad and explain to them what just happened. Eventually I got on my plane and was off. Soon as I get into Spain I through customs and by customs I mean a guy who looks at your passport and grunts, I love Spain the airport was easy to get through even though some of the sign were not in English, I then found Jonathan and went to his house for a much needed sleep.

I am now sitting on the couch typing this up after a much needed shower just as everyone is waking up.

Almost there

Right now I am busy stuffing as much junk as I can into my suitcase before I have to go.
It has been an interesting time trying to get my tickets changed and trying to remember all the Spanish and French I can before the trip. It will be just a little while before I am on my way and I am most thankful for your prayers, I will be needing them especially when I am in transit.
Thank you for wanting to know what the Lord is doing with me this summer.
I will keep updating this as often as I can.

Foot Ball anyone?

There has been a change in plans... The two Basketball camps did not get enough campers and had to be canceled.
Instead I will now be leaving the 18th of this month to make a DVD for a soccer camp. Which I like better because this means I get to be the one doing the all filming and all the editing. But it also means I have no one to blame if anything doesn't work/look right...yieks!


Hopefully I will not end up like this
guy.