What Could We Not Find?

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Posted on 10th November 2011 by Josué in Differences |Food and Drink

One question that came from my sister that I thought might be interesting to others is, “What could you not find in Argentina that you would want?” Here are a few things that I came up with. Since we have not spent extensive time in Argentina, I’m not sure how accurate this list is. However, here it goes!

  • Peanut Butter – This first comes to my head because my uncle, aunt, and cousins used to be in Chile and they didn’t have any either (just a childhood memory)
  • Marshmallows – I guess that means no smores and Hannah will have to make fondant with something else or make her own marshmallows
  • Inexpensive technology – it’s true. I priced a Motorola Xoom before I left the USA. It was around $347. In Argentina it was around $800. I’ll surely be missing this.
  • Mustard
  • Salty (non-sweet) ketchup
Like technology, there are many things that you can easily find there but are expensive. It’s not like the whole country is a vacant land mass. The big difference is cost.
As bad as it may sound that we might not find the items in this list in Argentina, there are so many things that we find in Argentina that we don’t find elsewhere that outweigh these small number of things.

…aaaand We’re Back

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Posted on 6th November 2011 by Josué in Trips

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So, I was planning on posting more while we were in Argentina, but we were quite busy during the trip. So, I’m thinking that I will spend some time posting about different things about the trip. So, to start the series of posts, I am going to start by answering the question that everyone has been asking – “so, how was it???” I think most would expect us to say something like “it was amazing!” or “it was incredible!” While both of those are very accurate, I think that it was very different than we all expected.

To begin, this trip wasn’t just a little venture trip down to South America for the fun of exploration. To us this was a trip to see the country where we might spend the rest of our lives. David, the missionary who we went with, tried to make sure that we were able to see what it is like to live there. This meant that we shopped for food and supplies ourselves. We cooked our own meals. We did most of things that we would do if we were living there instead of having everything done for us. Besides this, there were many other things that we were trying to absorb like the cost of living, cost of food, cost of gas, culture differences, language differences, and other factors of life that would be very different for us. To say the least it was mostly a very emotional trip than anything. I wouldn’t say that this means that we were ready to come back to the USA though. Although it is good to be back to be able to think about everything we saw. Now we are excited to head to Buenos Aires (BA) in two months from now.

There will be more next time…

Chau,
Josué

All Safe Here

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Posted on 21st October 2011 by Josué in Culture |Differences |Food and Drink |Trips

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Well, after hours in the air in uncomfortable sleeping positions, we finally made it at 6 this morning. We had a couple fiascoes with the airlines and the luggage, but what else is to be expected? However, we are here now with our luggage.  Lucas, a friend of David’s was gracious enough to pick us up from the airport and take us around the city to run some errands. Córdoba is gorgeous. It’s spring time and the flowers and smells are wonderful…when you separate them from the smells of diesel and other random, undesirable smells. This morning we spent some time around the city. We had an incredible breakfast which consisted of some coffee, toast, and liquidy but delicious yogurt. The tastes, sights, and sounds are wonderful. I wish I could share them all with you but that would give you no incentive to come visit yourself…not to mention I can share the tastes and smells over the internet. (more…)

Córdoba Trip 2011

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Posted on 20th October 2011 by Josué in Facts |General Info |Missions |Update

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Photo taken by calflier001

So, Hannah and I are on our way to Argentina…if we aren’t there already by the time you read this. I suppose there are several posts that I could have written as a prelude to this post, but I was not able to get around to those. So, to catch you up briefly here’s what has happened in the past couple weeks. God has allowed Hannah and I to get in touch with some missionaries (David and Kristen Fulfer) from Argentina who are here in town for furlough. A couple of weeks ago David asked if I would join him in a trip down to Argentina to finish up some stuff there that he needed to take care of. While I was not sure because of my PTO, we checked it out and found out that we could go. So, David and I planned the dates, purchased the tickets, and put a schedule together. (Well, he put the schedule together.) Now we are just hours away from taking off!

I’m going to share with you the itinerary that we have. It includes our agenda and things that you can be praying for each day for us. You will notice that in each date cell, there is some text in the top and text in the bottom. The text in the top area is our agenda and the text in the bottom part is what you can be praying for. Click here for a copy of the calendar in PDF. (more…)

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