Courtyard Monterrey San Jeronimo

Well, after another nice long bus ride (made longer by the many-hour delay at the border, for no apparent reason), we arrived in Monterrey. Our main goal here was simply to break the bus ride from Houston to Mexico City into two more managable parts, by arriving here in the morning, exploring, and leaving again in the evening. And it worked -- we left our bags in the luggage storage in the bus station and went exploring for ...

The whole stay here has just been strange. The first morning here I preached in a church - in spanish! First time since 2006! Even though I took out my guages and put in clear spacers, they asked me to take them out, as well as my eyebrow ring. They said I need to be "all things to all men" although that is not what it is talking about. The ministry gave us a nice little apartment for 5 days (full of cockroaches) in a ...

... city surrounded by mountains on 3 sides. It is absolutely breathtaking.
As we were about to head out the door, we were greeted by Jim, the leader of the base. He said,"Wanna evangelize?" We looked at eachother and went upstairs to pray about it. We didn't feel either way, but we came to the conclusion that "Hey, that's what we are here for!" So first he took us to his house to have a sandwich and meet his wife ...

... a boat trip around the lake in a boat belonging to Evers' friend Jimmy along with his son also called Jimmy (who also entertained us with their brilliant family band and some great rock and roll!). All in all, Monterrey as great fun, it was great to meet with a familiar face and be shown such a good time with great people. Thank you Ever, Laura and all the Garza family!

... to a friend of hers who lives in Monterrey, Gabriela. As soon I arrived, I called Gabriela, who asked (almost like a mother) how I was, whether I have found an apartment, etc. and told me not to hesitate to contact her in case of emergency. She then took me around town. We had lunch and she helped me find a cell phone (no luck). Her personality was very friendly, almost flamboyant. Then, I moved into my apartment. It's ...

... its now been three weeks here with my new family in monterrey/sabinas and im loving it! each day its the same, i come home from going out and they greet me in spainish and i smile to myself haha its good. The other day i go to school for half a week to see what it was like, wow! i need to learn spainish, its everywhere and i cant handle not knowing what ppl are saying to me, its so hard in every way! i just get run down mentally jaja like im "drowning in spainish" hahaha

wake up 6 am in chihuahua, my friend Miguel is really confident, we can get our flight at 7 at the airport, everything is set up, we get a shower, quick breakfast and his brother drive us to the airport.

we arrive at the airport, the check in desk is close, the plane is gone....5 minutes close...but too late.

what to do? this flight was suppose to bring us to Monterrey at 10am then we were suppose to fly from ...

... ball in Australia but with even more cowboys trying to ´find me-self a cowgirl!`. There are 2 others aussies here, we´re going to maybe have a bbq on my roof for Australia Day and invite some locals, maybe teach them watzing matilda. Been eating like a local, and finally getting used to the chill and the huge amount of salsa with everything. I miss Guatemala like crazy, it seems like a different lifetime. The people in Monterrey, especially ...

... br>March 25, 2008 - I'm back in Monterrey - this time for longer.. I have moved to work here, the plan is for the next few years, and I hope I will get to know it and the area very well. Let the adventure begin!

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... working on the party preparations at the restaurants. Again we were the only ones there. It was only 8pm and they had a whole bunch of tables reserved for after 9pm when the band was schedule to start playing and start the party. I guess I forgot that we latinos like to eat and go out late... Anyway, we were done when the people start to show up. We took a picture with the New Year's piòata and go bed bye. Happy New Year!!! We woke up with the fireworks....