Jeff Adams

Don’t get mad, now, but I am headed for a few days of summer just so I don’t forget what it’s like. Ten of us are headed for Buenos Aires, Argentina. Emily and seven students left earlier today because they found a cheaper ticket going through Denver on their way to Houston on their way to BA. I already had my ticket and went straight to Houston where I met up with them and where I am posting this. Jeannie, another team member is cashing in some frequent flier points and will going through Atlanta to meet up with us in Buenos Aires in the morning.

Our flight will leave around 9:00pm this evening and if all goes according to plan, around 10:30 tomorrow morning we should magically plop down on the runway of Ministro Pistarini International Airport better know as Ezeiza for the suburb where it is located. Or, if you really want to go local, this is know as the “Airport” while the other airport across town, Jorge Newbery, is simply called the “Airpark.” After spending a couple of days in Buenos Aires, we will actually fly out of the Airpark headed to Códoba and the site of CIMA 2010, the youth missions extravaganza that is our final destination.

As I said, this is summer in South America and Buenos Aires is a port city at the mouth of the River de la Plata that separates Argentina from its neighbor Uruguay. The climate is subtropical which means that Buenos Aires this time of year can feel much like New Orleans or Houston six months from now.

I’ll do my best to keep you posted on our adventures over the next few days. Since this is not a limited access country, you’ll be happy to know that I can freely use names, times and locations without having to resort to code to protect the innocent. So, I’ll tell you openly of our experiences with our Argentinian friends and not the A’s or the A@ or something like that.

Oh, if you would like to follow along from a student perspective, check out the trip blog at http://teamcima.wordpress.com