bye bye.....

Off to China for the weekend, see you all on Monday!!!

bye for now.....

2001- 2003

2001
I came back from Asia, and literally had cultural shock without even knowing
I staffed the SOME and leaded an outreach to Nepal & India
I went through depression
The SOME drove from Texas to Chicago (I drove long hours)
I missed Asia, China, Hong Kong even Andy Liao
I became the Creative Arts Department head
There is not so much that I can't say 'bout this year since I try to deleted most of it from my mind..... 2001 will be a year that it will be always remembered yet always forgotten...

2002
Went to Puebla to do a Mobile Team, drove 24 hrs with 4 cool girls (Pily, Gwen, Polla & Melanie) Met cool people and a good friend 'till today (Hiram ^^)
Traveled with the orphanage kids in the summer to Texas & Tennesse
Stayed at Michael W Smith's House ( really!!! I even have his phone number ^^)
Met famous people in Franklin Tenesse......
Staff the SOME & DTS as the Creative Arts Director
Went to Hong Kong to join the outreach team to China
Cried in Yuen Long the first nite I got here (because I missed soo much)
Met Sanna again after 2 long years ^^
Met Anna R, Soyoung, Anna A, Thomas & Junghee
Got interested in Koreans ^^ they were funny to me and cute too ......
Saw many people come to the Lord ( once again I knew I needed to come back here)
Spent 5 hrs talking in the courtyard
My heart beat again ^^......but soo far apart
2003
After a long fast I decided to go back to Asia
After 8 years I left YWAM EL Paso-Juarez with lots of tears ( I actually didn't know I could cry that much)
Left my position, friends, family, and everything that was familiar to me...
Went to Pennsylvania to do TESOL anf gained 40 pounds in USA
Came to Hong Kong: lived in Lighthouse with a full house, did food run & cooked with Anna Ress
Found a cute little apartment (Ground floor, kitchen with a door, nice bathroom, ground floor)
Went to Lanzhou (Muslim area in china) didn't sleep for 10 days
Left to go to Europe, we flu to Oslo (Norway) then took a ferry to Denmark and drove through Germany to finish in Holland then fly to London.
Came back and be the Kitchen Manager for Christmas Outreach 2003
Met a cool team from Mexico
My first Christmas in Asia (I missed Mexico terribly and woke up Christmas morning in a empty house)
Many changes happened that year........adjusting to a new culture, people,language yet vey happy to be here.............................
more to come.....the picture??? me in the bus with brian...

More secrets to be revealed.....

So people said to me: Faby I didn't know that about you?? hahahaha..... so here is more

1998
I leaded the first outreach outside of Mexico to Central America
1999
Was a hard year
Staffed the summer with lots of people running to the Hospital (Drving quite a lot)
For the first time I saw somebody died in a car accident
14 houses burned behind our base, 6 kids died ( all this in a period of a week)
The 99' DTS was fun, they really loved to dance so I was happy
Went to El Salvador & Guatemala for outreach
Met the cool Nicaraguan team

2000
Worked with teams
Mobile DTS and SOME, we had lectures in Texas, Lousianna, & Florida. (the most exhaustive school I ever worked with)
In the summer I went to Hong Kong to do FEET ( the hardest thing I've ever done in my life)
Met a girl name Sanna ( she was hilarious) she was from Finlad
Went to Nepal, India, China, Bangladesh learned a very complicated dance
Joined Christmas Outreach both as participant & kitchen Manager (sheed lots of tears)
Left to go back to America
Went to Walmart the firts night I got there ^^
2001
The hardest year in my YWAM Life........................

I created a Slide Show! Check it out!

1995-1998....

1995
Struggling with money in my family, we sold our new car
I went to a "GO FEST" and God said "GO" so I applied for DTS in 4 places Tyler Tx, Hawaii, El Paso and Tepic Mexico, I made the decission to go to ELP because the envelope was bigger...hehe really I did...........
I broke up with Jorge (my friend was threating me if I didn't give a good ending to this relationship since he was not a Christian)
I left to a new world, lived in the border town, I thought I spoke English....hahaha yeah alright when I have to share the room with 2 Europeans and 7 Americans the only words that came out of my mouth were JELOU I AM FRROM MEXICO...after that I was pretty much lost.
God taught me soo much during DTS, I found the little monster that I have inside of me and that I was in big trouble..... Yet I had a heart for the lost
I saw a baby died in the train in the mountains in Mexico, after that I thought I could never go back and spend my life studying Law or numbers and making money
I made many mistakes with my English such as telling an American guy "I want you".... not that I wanted him just in spanish I wanted to say I like you , you are cool....
My first time in USA without my dad & money.....I saw lots of snow... Yeah in this year I grew up a lot and when I went back to Mexico for Christmas brake I knew I'd never be the same..
1996
Begun to work with YWAM Mexico city, staffed the DTS
Met a guy that almost married......12 years older than me..
Organized the Olimpic YWAM Outreach for King's Kids in Atlanta
Left to staff in El Paso...... staffed one of the best DTS ever, had the hardest outreach in the mountains
lived in mobile trailer where the floor shake and it was cold.... ate lots of cheap noddles
went home in a bus ride that took 30 hrs
1997 Staff another DTS
Transition and change of leadership in YWAM ELP
Learning Year (finances, American culture, people)
Drive in the USA for the first time
Went Michigan for Christmas
Travel alone and got stock in Cinccinaty Ohio in the way back due to a blizzar...
1998
Learn to manage the Kitchen for a lot of people
Buying food at Sam's club
Learning to cook for over 30 people
Met the awesome people from PA, laughed 'till I almost died
The busiest summer in my life, translate for long hours,
Felt in love for the first time in my life...
China was a big deal
Went to Colorado Springs for a brake
This year was special lots of changes in my thinking and God begun to speak about Asia... I was in total denial 'till in November I got a dream about "China" .....I was scared, challenge yet full of excitment for what will happen in the future.....
More to come....

1992-1994 What I remember...........

1992,
Things that I can remember:
April.- I got accepted to University of Mexico (was proud)
June.-July - Went to Florida , we drove 6,000 miles from Mexico to Miami and back, in our way to Miami we stayed in 3 hotels in our way back,mmm let's say I think we visited all the hotels that there are in Florida, Missisipy, Alabama, Lousiana and Texas. (I counted 14)
August.- To school thought was good but too much freedom........did exercise like crazy and didn't eat much
An amazing & Smart guy named "Javy" mathematics was his subject....tall and skinny (me ?couldn't take my eyes off of him ) hehehe... He was not my teacher ...
My dad's cologne " Cool water" & Jazz
We got a brand new car.......it was silver............pretty and had another one black......
I don't remember much of the rest of the year
1993
Met a bunch of YWAMers from Brazil, so far the coolest people I've ever met.....a Drama team call "Ceifa" they challenged me sooooooooooo much!
Got involved with YWAM and the base, we were obsessed I think with this "missionaries" we liked them a lot...
Did outreach somewhere in Mexico (maybe north) went to USA in our usual trip to laredo texas. We prayed for rain and it DID RAIN!
Met an interesting guy at school (tall, long hair, smell good and handsome) his name was Jorge Montes
Jorge's cologne.....Hugo Boss
I crashed..... yes I did with a car that was parked....hehehe
Enjoy American Football the best year of our team !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONDORES!
1994
Went to Outreach to the coast we stayed in a cool house with a pool ^^ we used face painting in a 100 weather.....
We crashed 4 vehicles all of them belong to my friends...... ( I was not driving)
I took piano lessons ( yeah I don't remember any of it)
I learned how to drive properly ( my aunt taught me while my dad was away in New York)
My parents take off to New York & Canada
The long hair, tall ,interesting guy was sweet and really liked me so......... that went on for 9 months ( my sister liked him ^^ as )
Roses & cards........ Long walks................
Just to go to my friends house to work out .....
The worse Christmas ever.............my dad left church.............I knew what fear was
1995 was one of the hardest year yet the year that God changed my life forever!!!!!!!!!!!

More to come.....

Earthquake and more..............

So, someone well actually many people said that there were no earthquakes in Hong Kong.......well last nite as I was laying on my couch I felt something strange it felt like the ground was shaking.., I know earthquakes well because I lived in the Earthquake City for 18 years so I knew that what I was feeling was an earthquake........................freaked me out a little but at least I was not at the 78 floor in any of the many buildings that are here in Hong Kong.....................so for the picture today I choose to share a funny one of myself.... That's how I looked last nite when I called Joe and said "DID YOU FEEL THAT"???? ....yeah that's me....hard to believe uh? yeah my eyes can actually be bigger than what they actually are... scary... ok, now I am being very vurneable to show you that picture oh well....

For the other picture.....I found this picture in someone's computer...... Look everyone looks soo handsome and young....what happened to all of them????? not so handsome neither Young....

Me....confused! ^^

Babys

Just beautiful, miss playing with them, be silly or even better to pretend I am the gorila hunter and I need to hunt them all around the house. Kids are just beautiful! Miss them terribly.............................

Me, La Fabys

Yet I am loved...

I don't deserve a call, yet someone calls me,

I don't deserve time to chat, yet someone has time for me,

I don't deserve encouragement, yet someone does encouraged me,

I don't deserve a sweet word, yet someone tells me a sweet word,

I don't deserve a hug, yet I get a hug,

I don't deserve a destiny, Yet I own one................................

I don't deserve to be love YET I AM LOVED!!

more later..............

Old good times......

This picture seems like ages ago.................................. not to long ago..... ready for the week? went to eat Mexican food with a cook that is from Nepal ....^^ yeah that's how desperate we are in Hong Kong for a good Mexican cook..... any volunters???? .......... Saturday ate Dim Sum with Brian and walked in Yuen Long then went to see United 93.....what an awful movie, I will not go to the movies in a while......this weekend was all about socializing with people no wonder I am sooo tired tonite.... so today I miss those amazing tacos that sell around the corner of my house and I will give anything to anyone that will invent a "time machine" that could transport me there in seconds.......I would like to go to eat with my dad & mom.......soooo much fun!

More later.....

Faby