Breckenridge, 12th August 2008

Hi there!!! :-)

Yesterday we arrived in our new town Breckenridge!! Here it looks like in Switzerland!!! It's a very touristic place, especially in winter many people come here for skiing! It's beautiful here :-)!!!!!!! A shame that we'll just stay here until 15th August!
My new hostfamily is Mark and Tracy Burke with daughter Ashley (16) and sons Jeff and James (both of them don't live here at the moment. And a dog again! She's called Roxy and is 8 years old, very cute ;-)! Mrak and Tracy own a Irish Pub, very cool :-)!!! We'll have dinner there tomorrow night!
My room-mates are Cheryssa (USA) and Eriko (Japan). We live in a lovely house with a nice view to the mountains (it's really like in Switzerland)!

Today we did community impact work. I was crew leader of the group which went to the Summit Highschool painting the walls in the cafeteria, which was great fun!

Tomorow I'll be crew leader with the group which will go the elemantary school for community impact!

On Thursday we'll have our second show here in Breckenridge!

Next week we'll be in Mexico!! How exciting!! :-)



By the way, our tour schedule has changed a bit. Here the new dates and places:

Breckenridge, CO 11 - 15 August

Mexico:
La Paz, 16-22 August
Sahuarita, Green Valley, 22 - 29 August
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 29 Sep.-8 October

USA:
Colorado Springs, Ft. Carson Colorado, 8 - 13 October
Salt Lake City, Utah, 13-20 October
Casper. Wyoming, 20-27 October
Aberdeen, South Dakota, 27 October - 3 November
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 3-10 November
North Platte, Nebraska , 10-17 November

Philippines:
Manila, 17 Nov.-5th December
Subic Bay, 5-16 December

-> Flight back to Germany (Frankfurt).


Byyyye for now!!!!!!
Birgit ;-)

Some more News about my last few days, Boulder, Monday 4th August

Tuesday, 29th July:

On Tuesday we did community impact work at a place in the Rocky Mountains where there was a huge forest fire in 2002. We planted 100 trees!!! It was fun!! :-)

Thursday, 31rd July:

Another night at Kirk' s house having BBQ! Brittany (USA), Annika (Germany), Stewart (USA), Ben (USA) and Sack (USA) came too!

Friday, 1st August:

Sometimes we play games at home in the evenings!

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I have so many nice pictures, and so much more to tell you, however, somehow this blog-thing doesn't work at the moment :-(! Can't upload pictures, very strange....

Well, bye for now! Am so exhausted, should sleep more ;-)!

Birgit ;-)

News from Boulder (Denver), Sunday 3rd August 2008

Hello friends, family... :-)!!! Hope you are doing well!!

Have been soooo busy!!! Have a lot to tell you!!

Tuesday, 22nd July:

Leaders from different companies around Denver came to our UWP-place for discussions about leadership. We talked what about "leadership" includes, and how we can be a leader.

In the evening Lilli came to our house for dinner. Bob and Judy have invited her. Lilli is half German, half American. She works in a bakery in Boulder, where they make German bread. She can speak German, that' s why she wanted to speak in German with me. After dinner we went for a walk, which was nice.

Thursday, 24th July:
There was a Jazz-concert in the mall in Denver. Franziska, Marion (both Swiss), Jacky (American), Eduardo (Mexico), Raffael... and some staff-members were also there. We had a nice chat!

Marion and Franziska:

Friday, 25th July:

In the evening Kirk came to our house in Boulder, we made our "Me-pages" for UWP:

Saturday, 26th July:

That morning we had to leave our house at 6:00! We went wildwater-rafting in the Rocky Mountains, which was great fun :-)!!!! Bob had organised this trip for all UWP-people and their hostfamilies!

Before our wildwater-rafting:

We were for about 3 hours on the river:

After the wildwater-rafting. All exhausted and happy:
After the wildwater-rafting Bob showed us (Brittany, Kirk & me) around:

A wild river:

Brittany & Kirk in love!!!! :-) :

High mountains:

A nice lake:

A lovely old town, where we had dinner:
Sunday, 27th July:

Bob and Judy took us to Adam's birthday-party. Adam is their grandson, who is 10 years old now!

Ready to go (with all the presents):

Adam: