August 17, 2007 by Rick.

The Phone is back! After a few days of drying out the phone was working again last night when I tried it. We made a few quick calls, but have run out of battery power. I´ll charge it up again and try calling on Sunday. Yipee!!!

Well it was a long but VERY enjoyable week of school. Claudette is REALLY sailing past me now in sentence composition and we are not even close on word comprehension. (How come she don’t have so good a memory in marriage I wonder???) I barely have any edge on the pronuncuiation over her anymore, (she really shaped up in the last couple days) so it’s really a good thing that this is not a competition!!!

We went to the main beach (just outside the park) again Friday afternoon, after school. I had forgotten my suit though and just rented a chair to relax for a couple of hours while the other three frollicked. I did get some excellent pictures and a bunch of video footage though. The rains came midway through the afternoon, but we stayed there. As the tide came in I had to move my chair and umbrella up a ways, and Luke & Alex built three different sand castles. Each one was further up the beach, aways from the encroaching waves. The third one was barely a small pile of sand, while they spent most of the time building a reakwall out of sand and sticks. They even dragged a huge tree stump from over 100m away, (through the surf) to add to the protective fortifications. Claudette had to help them drag it from the surf in front of the castle to it’s final resting spot. I suggested Alex dig it in, rather than just setting it there and she did. Barely a half hour later the maximum high tide waves were lapping at the wood.

After the beach I went back to the book exchange store to find Luke’s shirt and sure enough it was there. The english girl had set it aside for us. I’d really like to find a world map somewhere in town to give to Maricella for her house, but haven’t found one yet. Perhaps I’ll have to order one on the net and have it sent.

Oh, and H*A*P*P*P*Y B*I*R*T*H*D*A*Y Auntie FLORENCE!!!!!!!!

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August 17, 2007 by Claudette-CJB.

Well, it´s been a eventful first week. First it was an earthquake and then the other day it was a Tsunami warning, although the Tsunami warning wasn´t all that bad. Rick was pretty sure that the house we are staying at was up enough of a hill, that we did not evacuate. As it turned out the alert was cancelled about 9:30 PM.

Spanish lessons are going great, I can´t believe how much we are learning already. Everyone is doing fine, however Luke was really homesick the other day and missing Pete. As for the rest of us, so far so good. Bye for now, Claudette

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August 17, 2007 by Luke.

While we were watching TV Wednesday night, we heard that there might be a tsunami in this area. This tsunami warning was from the earthquake in Lima, Peru. I didn’t know about either until the next morning when Alex told me.

We have been going to the beach latley, almost everyday. Yesterday Alex got stung by a jellyfish and today I got stung too. I enjoy the water but not the high waves.

I lost my hat when we first got here and just on Thursday I lost my shirt. When we went to buy another, I lost the shirt I was wearing. On Friday we’re going to look for it.

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