Jeff Adams

OK, it´s 0130 in the morning Argentina time (3 hours ahead of KC) and I am tired. This will be short.
We were expecting 1800 students plus speakers, staff, leaders, etc. The reality is that 2500 students showed up. Yikes! They are struggling to find spots on the floor for everyone to sleep, etc., but they are students. Somehow they will survive. The opening was amazing, filled with energy and anticipation. Wow! It was truly electric.

Some of you were able to watch live streaming video. Tim Mensendiek figured it out, so let him tell you how he did it. Others of you struggled. The web site is http:www.cima2010.com/. They will be broadcasting live each night. You can change the web page to English by clicking the British flag, or you can simply click the CIMA TV logo to take you to the video page. We were about 45 minutes late getting started tonight because of the press of people. It was fantastic! You will also be able to keep up on picture of the event there also. I think that by the morning they should have some things posted. Stay tuned. They are publishing a color newspaper each morning, so I think they will update the web, too.

Our students are still alive. I saw them all tonight and counted them. They came as volunteers not knowing what they would be doing. Most of them are cleaning bathrooms during the day. Seriously! It’s around 100 degrees. Can you imagine! A couple opted out as volunteers because they weren’t feeling on top of it, but I think they will be just fine. They were all sitting together tonight in the service. Poor Emily is running ragged trying to keep up with it all. For lack of a better way to describe it, she is the assistant to the assistant to Thomas Voeglin, the founder. She is a life-saver for them since she is fully bi-lingual. She is also translating the plenary sessions into English for folks with headsets. I’m telling you that they are earning every bit of their two days of fun in Buenos Aires and then some! But, I am proud of them and they will do great.

I have to get up early because I start in the morning. Goodnight!