Saturday, September 8, 2012
So we are back in the States!
Its been a while sence I've posted but I don't think that that has a huge effect on your guyses day to day life.
I started High School! Its been a big ajustment but I really like it. I am in Club swimming and I am in the Drama Club (come see our performance of Seussical in November!). Homework comes in great amounts and I have very little time but I get it done :).
Soon I will post pictures but right now I just don't feel like it.
This summer was crazy! We arrived in the US after a LONG over night plain ride. We spent most of our time going back and forth between Michigan and Ohio. I went to Camp Friedenswald twice and that was awesome! We spent alot of time with cousins. In August we went back to Kansas and met up with my dad who went back to Kansas in July because he had to start work. We unpacked and set up our rooms and got used to being REALLY HOT!
We started school arround the 2nd week in August. So far I absolutly love it! I am taking Honors Geometry, Honors English, Honors Biology, Intro to Drama, French 1, and Freshman Orchestra. I am 2nd violin in Orchestra and the rest of my classes are going great! I especially love Drama. We basically run around and play games and sometimes watch a musical. I am in the Drama club as well and in the Spring I will be on the High School swim team :D.
I do club swimming with the Newton Nitros. It is tons of fun and a lot of work! I also auditioned for the Seussical and got in!
Our dog Mia is still not here. She is going to be shipped here but we are having a lot of problems with comunication with the vet (long story).
A couple days ago we went to the busker fest in Lawrence it was awesome!
Hopefully I'll have enough time to post pictures later. For now just enjoy this wonderful video about introverts. I love it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0KYU2j0TM4
Sunday, April 22, 2012
More Pics from the Hike! Juan Pinzon told us that this Waterfall was sometimes used as a weppon between the Conservatives and the Liberals during a very violent time in Colombia. On the side of the town that Juan lives in was basically the Liberals territory and on the other (the waterfall side) was the Conservatives side. Anyway, The Conservatives would sometimes through the Liberals off of that waterfall!!!!
Anyway, More pictures now:
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Back to the Finca- Waterfalllll!
On of the best parts of our stay at the Pinzons finca was our "hour" hike to a waterfall that turned out to be 2 hours just getting there. Anyway It was lots of fun... Here are some pictures:
Abby on Horse:
Exploring the river:
Seeing who can say under the longest:
ABBY WON!:
Waterfall:
Monday, April 2, 2012
Ok a little pause from the finca....
Ok so I have been busy working on slideshows and I thought that I would show you them. I made the first one for MCC Colombia days of prayer and action and the second one for the 10th birthday party for MCC Colombia. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hgfAo_cYiA&list=UUFTZduBpeVt_ZqWKoKxhauw&index=1&feature=plcp
This one is a very good one that shows lots of Colombian landscapes and Places that people call home here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hgfAo_cYiA&list=UUFTZduBpeVt_ZqWKoKxhauw&index=1&feature=plcp
This one is a very good one that shows lots of Colombian landscapes and Places that people call home here.
La Finca Pinzon Part 3: La Molina
The Pinzons farm is actually an organic panela farm. The view from there house is pure sugarcane. You can smell it, feel it, here it, see it and touch it. One of the days that we were there Juan took us to the Molina or the Mill where they get the panela from the sugarcane. Panela is like raw sugar.
While we were walking down the road Juan cut a stock down and pealed the outside covering of the stock off that had very little sharp itchy spines on it and told us to suck on it. We did and it was sweet! You can bite chunks of the stock off, suck the sweet stuff out and then spit the dry stock out. It is very good.
The Molina was very old and had a whole bee population living inside of it. The mill is worked by hand and is very dangerous (someone could very well cut an arm off while they push the cane into a slot with lots of sharp things to cut it up to get the panela out). On one end of the machine the dry cane comes out and out the other side there is a tube attached to a whole were the panela comes out and goes into a separate room were it goes through 6 processes to clean it. The dry stocks then are sent to a different place were they make recycled paper out of them.
The liquid panela can be made into "miel de panela" (sugar honey) in one stage of the hardening process. Kinda like at one point cheese is cottage cheese... I think. After the panela goes through all of the cleaning processes they shape it into blocks and let it harden. It is very good.
Panela can be made into lots of things like:
Agua de Panela: Melted down panela with water and lime. I like it hot but lots of times they surve it cold.
Cafe con Panela: Coffee with melted down panela.
Miel de Panela: I already told you what that was.
Colombinas de panela y coco: Panela and coconut suckers. Basically a sticky wab of panela with coconut in the middle.
Panela is very common in Colombia but can also be found in Venezuela (there it's called papelon) and parts of Ecuador. You can use it as a replacement for rown sugar or raw sugar. When its dry it looks like a block of brown sugar. I think you can find it in the US in some special health food stores or importing stores.
Somebody's lookin a bit like Gandalf........
Anyway on our way home we wanted to go and dig up some Yuca. Its a root vegatible that is like a very starchy potato and it not my favorite. I was very surprised though, when I tried it again after we picked it fresh and then griled it. YUM.
While we were walking down the road Juan cut a stock down and pealed the outside covering of the stock off that had very little sharp itchy spines on it and told us to suck on it. We did and it was sweet! You can bite chunks of the stock off, suck the sweet stuff out and then spit the dry stock out. It is very good.
The Molina was very old and had a whole bee population living inside of it. The mill is worked by hand and is very dangerous (someone could very well cut an arm off while they push the cane into a slot with lots of sharp things to cut it up to get the panela out). On one end of the machine the dry cane comes out and out the other side there is a tube attached to a whole were the panela comes out and goes into a separate room were it goes through 6 processes to clean it. The dry stocks then are sent to a different place were they make recycled paper out of them.
The liquid panela can be made into "miel de panela" (sugar honey) in one stage of the hardening process. Kinda like at one point cheese is cottage cheese... I think. After the panela goes through all of the cleaning processes they shape it into blocks and let it harden. It is very good.
Panela can be made into lots of things like:
Agua de Panela: Melted down panela with water and lime. I like it hot but lots of times they surve it cold.
Cafe con Panela: Coffee with melted down panela.
Miel de Panela: I already told you what that was.
Colombinas de panela y coco: Panela and coconut suckers. Basically a sticky wab of panela with coconut in the middle.
Panela is very common in Colombia but can also be found in Venezuela (there it's called papelon) and parts of Ecuador. You can use it as a replacement for rown sugar or raw sugar. When its dry it looks like a block of brown sugar. I think you can find it in the US in some special health food stores or importing stores.
Somebody's lookin a bit like Gandalf........
Anyway on our way home we wanted to go and dig up some Yuca. Its a root vegatible that is like a very starchy potato and it not my favorite. I was very surprised though, when I tried it again after we picked it fresh and then griled it. YUM.
La Finca Pinzon part 1: Actually getting there
On March 17th our family of 5 and the Pinzon family of 4 piled into a mini van and drove for about 5 to 4 hours with many stops along the way to their family farm in Togüi Boyacá.
Some of our backpacks didn't fit so we grabbed a bit of rope and tied them to the top.
Our first stop was in a very small town with a beautiful big OLD church built in the late 1500s.
Then we drove past lots of very small towns and even through THE smallest official town in Colombia (sadly I don't remember the name of it).
Our last stop was a small shop the sold lots of yummy stuff like panela suckers bocadillo (Guayaba paste) and very good cheese.
Then we finaly got to the very small town of Togüi about 15min from their farm in a car and about 30 on foot.
Some of our backpacks didn't fit so we grabbed a bit of rope and tied them to the top.
Our first stop was in a very small town with a beautiful big OLD church built in the late 1500s.
Then we drove past lots of very small towns and even through THE smallest official town in Colombia (sadly I don't remember the name of it).
Our last stop was a small shop the sold lots of yummy stuff like panela suckers bocadillo (Guayaba paste) and very good cheese.
Then we finaly got to the very small town of Togüi about 15min from their farm in a car and about 30 on foot.
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