and..GO!

This week has been insane! It feels like it's been months! We got to get out of nowhere for a bit this week and we headed down to Niagra Falls! I haven't been there since I was a wee lad. I have to say I've started to grow a fondness for Ontario (except for the air in Hamilton!). The best part had to be camping in a vinyard just outside Niagra-on-the-lake, sleeping under the stars and looking out across Lake Ontario and seeing the night-lights of Toronto! As well, probaby the best part of the week was going to St Jacobs market and buying heaps of KNVB gear! Got the whole kit, shirt and shorts as well as a scarf! Pretty stoked about that! Following out trip we came back to the annoucement that the asparagus had started to grow and it was go time! Both Friday and Saturday we working from 7 in the morning to 9 at night! My job in the process involves lifting a 28lb box of asparagus, deciding what size category it fits into and placing on that pallet. It's not a bad job and its a great work out, those two days equal about me lifting 20 000 lbs of asparagus! Six weeks of that and I'll be able to lift a baby hippo! I am absolutley loving every minute of this adventure! We'll see if I say the same as the work continues! The asparagus is growing faster than they can cut it resulting in the field across from us being full of about 2-3 foot asparagus, which works well to ambush people with! Well, I start work at 7 tomorrow and i'm sure it will be a long week!
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One Down, Many More To Go

Well, the first of many more weeks is done! It's been quite the ride so far! The group is all here and they are all fantastic people whom I greatly look forward to getting to know better. This past week we have had a pastor from Guatemala come talk to us and give us discipleship 101. It was incredible to see the cultural differences and it excited me so much more for Guatemala. So far we have only actually worked one day! Today was suppose to be a work day but thanks to the rain, which seems to have followed from Vancouver, work was cancelled. We are not actually working in the barns yet as there has not been enough sun for the little asparagus  to grow! Iinstead we have been doing all those jobs on a farm that the farmer never has quite enough time to do.

It's so weird being in the middle of nowhere, we currently have no internet in the place we are staying which adds to the feeling of isolation. If you're wondering how I am writing this, then you think to much! But to answer your question, we found a cafe about 30 minutes away from where we are staying which as free wifi! Score! There are a few cute, quaint towns around which are pretty sweet to visit on a sunny day (which are few and far between at the moment). Well, I'm borrowing a friends computer and he's giving me dirty looks so I better hurry up! Hope this message finds everyone well!

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