Rio Cuarto Preps

 

Due to popular demand I’m back after a lengthy absence… here are photos I took while at preps at Rio Cuarto.  Here’s a map to help you find Rio Cuarto!  A few facts and figures…Rio Cuarto is our largest convention (about 300 people give or take), they travel from all parts of the country to go there.  It’s also where we have our worker’s meeting.   However, the  property is VERY compact, therefore there is not room for all of us to stay on the grounds, and some have to stay in the friends homes in the town, or look for accommodation.  The friends put mattresses down and make room for out of towners.  The convention is just a two-day event, the meeting shed is hardly big enough, so we’re all packed in like sardines!!  The preps is about 10 days, and this year we were three bros and four sis. 

Well here go the photos then, they’re just a whole lot of random shots, I kept forgetting to get the camera out half the time!

Some shots I took out the bus window on the way to Rio Cuarto to give you an idea of how flaaaaaaaaaaaaaat it is here!! Not a hill in sight!! I hated it when I first got here, but used to it now.

Lido putting in the uprights

Pretending to work

(Pepa is the owner of the home, her husband is Manuel).  My rice puddings are in the foreground!

Alex Burkinshaw is the one peering over Graham’s shoulder, Jim Knipe at the table with Aldo Larrousse, one of the friends from Buenos Aires who came to help at preps.

Mirna’s the one that had the stroke about a year and a half ago.  Making good progress, although she’s not the girl she used to be…

And the food…

A few photos from Rachel

Here are some photos Rachel sent me a little while ago so you can see what she's been up to
Aqui unas fotos que Raquel me envió hace un tiempo para que vean donde ha estado ella

Eli Reque and I cooking at preps in Chapare Eli Reque y yo cocinando en los preparativos
Cleaning the path up to the meeting place, Magui Reque, Orfa Reque and I Limpiando la senda al lugar de la reunión..Magui, Orfa Reque y yo

Lunch at the blind lady's house...John Chambers is the brother worker you can see Almuerzo en la casa de la cieguita, John Chambers es el siervo que se ve

Getting to the blind lady's house!!!En camino a la casa de la cieguita!

Adela Reque making hot chili sauce at preps, using a grinding stone Adela Reque haciendo salsa de yaqua en los preparativos, con una piedra

Meeting room (Magui Reque) Sala de la reunion con Magui Reque

                                                            Bolivian Workers Photo 2011

Back:Pedro Huanca (Peru), Don Reynolds, John Chambers (Ireland/Romania), Eldpidio Arruda (Brazil)

Middle: Lidia Rivera, Karen Sykes, Rachel Bailey, Elizabeth Reque

Front:Izabel Cassimiro (Brazil), Rosa Maria Rodriguez (Mexico), Donna Mose, Betty Braasch

In the kitchen at the convention house in Chapare - Don Casto (owner of the place) and Eli Reque (Bolivian sister worker who works in Ecuador, was on home visit last year) En la  cocina con don Casto (padre de Albina) y Eli Reque

Our flash latest-model stove!! Environmentally unfriendly!! Made of clay, the smoke goes out of the cracks in the wall La cocina ultimo modelo!

Cooling off in the river at Cristal Mayu (right near the convention grounds) Bañandonos en el rio en Cristal Mayu (cerca del lugar de reuniones)

The upstairs room (where the sisters sleep at convention time). Note the mosquito nets above the beds.  Picutured are Eli Reque and two of her sisters who came to help out at preps time. El dormitorio arriba donde duermen las señoritas.  En la foto figuran Eli Reque y dos de sus hermanas

Over the hill and looking down the other side...turning 41.  At the home of Elva Reque, (another sister of Eli), Cochabamba Mi cumpleaños de 41 en la casa de Elva Reque Cochabamba

Party at Elva Reque's...nice flowers La fiesta en la casa de Elva Reque...lindas flores