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hey, yah i got back from bolivia a few weeks ago then someone called me and said they needed counsolers at cape breton bible camp and they offered to drive me here. so i am here at camp. it has been going pretty good. it sounds like you are having a good time jordan, that is good. i am sure you will have lots of cool stories when you return home. in the fall i am still thinking on living in saint john but not sure about everything yet. let me know what your thinking of doing. thats all i can write now, talk to you in a while.

well in three more days,yes, in 3 more days i will be at the halfway point of my course and almost done my first deployment out into the woods to do some crazy talking on radio's and playing armymen stuff. so much for time passing slowly, things have really zoomed along, you must be almost heading home now from Bolivia. The weather has been warm for the most part, this week has been a fair bit cooler which feels very nice for a change, i can't wait for summer to end even though i am enjoying it, there is always something else to do that will be a change that is good. email me to tell me what your thinking for the fall. your thoughts on whats going on and such.

I am still alive despite the fact that i haven't written in a while. i am alomost done working for the day. its roughly three o'clock and things are running fairly smooth. I t looks as though good things are happening in bolivia for you will have to talk when i get back after the summer. anyhow i have been learning some fairly easy stuff, Windos 2000 pro and microsoft office 2000, ,i bought a bmx bike a while ack its nothin super fancy but it rolls me around.

today was my last spanish class. after lunch i walked a ways to catch a trufi (a van that is cheap public transportation). I guess i could have taken a two trufis and transfered. but i didnt i walked. anyway i was planning on going to the orphanage today again but i waited for the trufi for a while and it didn´t come so i asked a girl if number 241 came down this road and she said there was a blockade today. so i couldnt go to the orphanage. so i remembered someone told me they were going to the market today so i went there again but didnt see them. so i went to that barber shop and said hello. then i saw where you can buy girls braided hair that they cut off. kinda was weird. anyway, then i came home. then i left again and walked to a store to buy some cookies because something was going on at the bible school and we were supposed to bring food. then i went to the bible school where we sang songs and some students there did a pretty funny skit about this guy trying to sell an animal. then we played some games. then i came home on a trufi which i couldn´t remember how to say stop for some reason so i just kind of mummbled something and the driver stopped. anyway it is almost midnight goodnight.

yah i am down the street again at an internet place. today after spanish class i went to a christian radio station. a guy who works there showed me around and stuff like that. the radio station produces most of its own stuff, it is the only radio station in the quetchua language, which a lot of people speak, but most of them are poor and live in the country. the radio station broadcasts all over the country and into Peru a little bit. anyway after that i went wandered around for a real long time thinking i might find something interesting. i didnt find much, but i stopped in a bookstore and bought a superman comic which was like 6 bolivianos i think. i wandered around some more and saw lots of statues and little plazas or parks. then i figured i might look for the market but i had no idea where it is so i took a taxi. i wandered around there for a while but didn´t really buy anything. oh wait i bought a piece of cake from a girl, it was tasty. then i wandered around some more and the stores started closing but these guys at a barber shop said something to me so i stopped and talked to them for quite a while. they were pretty funny. i should go back and get a haircut there sometime but i cant remember where it was. then i asked where the clothes section was and some guy showed me where it was. I cant remember their names now one was Roberto. I can talk some basic stuff but it is difficult to have a conversation. they told me a guy at another barber shop was Nabo (who is the president of the MAS party) yah, the elections turned out weird, Goni came in first, he is a guy who was educated in the states and was president before but he wasn´t real good because he sold bolivian companies to private US companies which raised up the price a lot. and then the guy who came in second (the Nabo guy, MAS) is against western influence and wants to take all bans off coca growing.(which they grow lots of coca here but there are laws on how much they can grow) he is a socialist and my family doesnt like him because they are decendants of Spain and he is only for his own people. anyway, like a week before the bolivian election the states said if this guy becomes president they will stop sending money, which means the military would have no funding. anyway, the thing is here, presedents can join after the election is over, so it isn´t real democracy. anyway, i guess they are going to decide who is president on the 6th of august. So if Nabo becomes president people say things will be bad and he will get assasinated. (as the military has the guns and he does not) my family says the future of bolivian economy is unclear. anyway, after the market i took a taxi to a grocery store and bought a snack, then i walked here where i am now. man i couldnt understand anything the last taxi driver was saying. i think he charged me about 30 cents american too much. i didnt feel like arguing though as i couldn´t understand anything he was saying anyway. i think tomorrow i am going to go back to the orpanage. who knows if i will find it again as i think i am going alone but oh well.

hmm, on thursday after spanish class i went to a mission office. someone had torn down the wall i guess they are planning to change it or something and i helped clear up the mess. a missionary girl here from germany who lives at the mission building had two bunkbeds in here apartment room so i helped move them out so she would have more room. it was the 4th of july so we had independence day fireworks. on saturday i went to the big statue of jesus again with a few people but it was closed to go inside again. i asked ceci if it was opened on saturdays she thought it was but then when i got home she said someone told her only sundays. oh well, i got a saltania. they are pretty good they are rolls filled with meat and sauce and cheese and stuff. after we wondered around and found a pizza place. we ordred a pizza with eggs on it. sounded weird but was kinda good. anyway after that we went to a park downtown and fed some pigeons. yesterday after church i went with my family to the mountains where it had snowed. we went sliding. my brother said it was the third time in his life he had been where there was snow.