Pictures from My Trip to Tepic, Mexico
My last article was about my trip to Tepic, Mexico, and I did not include any pictures. Refresh your memory if you need to because this article is solely pictures and captions. I also put in breaks between sections but not between the days.
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| CBX |
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| The Border; I actually took this picture on the way back since we were all so tired by the time we got to the airport when we came there |
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| The Tijuana Airport was renovating when we arrived. Also the seats felt like concrete. |
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| This is the one and only baggage claim in the airport. The workers would have to unload the luggage, put it on carts, and wheel the luggage to this area. |
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| This is my team standing in front of the airport and a sign saying, "Nayarit" which is the state of Mexico we were in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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| The hotel sign |
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| The side of the hotel |
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| A Catholic Church across the street from the hotel |
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| A dry fountain in front of the hotel square |
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Las Bendiciones
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| The village overlooks a cliff |
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| This little girl is having fun with the jump-rope. My team was wearing green shirts that day. |
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| Chalking the concrete |
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| This is the face-painting station. My friend, Leah, is looking at the camera. |
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| Priscilla, one of our translators, taught the kids a song called "Habia un Sapo." It's about a green frog who got cold while swimming in a river. So his wife told him, "You have a friend in Jesus." Some of our team members got that song stuck in their head the whole trip and kept singing it over and over again with their bad Spanish. |
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| This is a Bible lesson being taught by Kevin |
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Loma Alta
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| This village is probably called "Loma Alta" because we had to hike up a steep mountain to get to it. Well, we only had to do so because one of the church members accidently took us the wrong way which was the hard way. |
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| This village had a volleyball net |
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| More face-painting |
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| Most of this village is dirt, but many of the guys on our team did not go to Las Bendiciones to lay a concrete slab so this village could hold their meetings there. |
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| The missionaries, Don and Janie Nellis, played the accordian and sang hymns at the village. |
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| The town outside the window of my hotel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Sports Complex |
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| The basketball court |
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| The soccer field |
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| The volleyball area |
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| Those people playing basketball and siting in the rain are what I call the "Rain Squad." What the picture doesn't show are the heavy rains and the gusts of wind. Of course, it's only the Americans that are doing this. |
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The Park of the Falling Insects
(Not the Real Name)
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| One of the many playgrounds |
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| A statue of Pancho Villa. I included this picture because it was really interesting to learn about this historical figure and see his statue in Mexico although we Americans had to capture him later. |
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| The adults got to sit on the logs while the rest of us had to avoid all of the insects. |
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| This was during a very hilarious retelling of the story of Joseph. Throughout the days, the story got longer and longer until everyone was so tired of hearing the story. |
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| We were not allowed to take any pictures of the children because this orphanage works like America's foster care system. Many of the children's parents are in prison. There were about eight children living at the orphanage when we were there. This is a soccer game by the way. |
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| We did a little shopping before going on to the next village. All of these jewelry are beaded. |
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| This is another village area |
Ixtlan, Guadalajara
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| This is the center where we did skits and evangelism. Someone is open-air preaching. |
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| This little kid and his sister (not in the picture) walked around singing. He reminds of the kid in Coco (I did not watch the movie, so I don't know much about it). |
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Jala, Guadalajara
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| Oh, look. It's me. |
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| This is everyone trying to guavas from the tree |
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The Church
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| The church's full name is Iglesia Biblica Bautista Misericordia |
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The Surprise Fiesta
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| The church spent three months hand-making this piñata. |
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| There was a girl vs guy stunt-off and dance-off. Of course, only the Americans did things like this. The Mexicans weren't as crazy. |
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The Lake
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| Do you see the fish swimming around the algae-covered steps? |
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| The ripples in the water are so pretty |
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| From left to right: Don and Janie Nellis (the missionaries) and Erin and Pastor Martine Garcia (the pastor and his wife from the church) |
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| My teddy bear, Mary, looking out of the airplane window |
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I hope you enjoyed all of those pictures. Can you believe there were fifty of them in all? No quotes or verses for the special articles, but check back next Monday for an article about my 11th grade subjects.
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