August 2, 2008
Greetings from Campo Bom, Brazil!
Our team (from Faith Baptist - Regina, SK) arrived here at the CHAIN of Love Homes yesterday after a 30+ hour trip from Regina to Calgary to Houston to Buenos Aires to Porto Alegre!
We've had a great first day getting to know the kids, volunteers and house-parents here and are excited for the 2 weeks ahead of us. God surely has had His hand on this place and our team as we traveled long and hard to get here.
The kids had a kite competition today that we watched and our team played soccer, basketball and just plain horsed around with them for most of the afternoon. Many of our team members have been experimenting with their Portuguese and having good success at communicating!
The weather has been cool but comfortable; around 14-15 C (60 F) with rain and thunderstorms last night but partly cloudy skies today. We're looking forward to going to church tomorrow night and our first Brazilian restaurant tomorrow. Everyone's trying to get used to the Latin eating schedule which features the biggest meal of the day around 1 or 2 pm, but hey, it's not wrong, just different, right guys?!
More tomorrow! Thanks for reading!
For the Brazil Gateway Team from Regina,
Randy Schmor
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