Well hello again! I returned home from my summer trip on Sunday morning and am very happy to be home again in my own bed. I had a great, albeit exhausting, time in Bosnia. It was hard work and the weather was quite difficult (either blazing hot or dumping rain), but it was a very rewarding experience and I'm glad that I went.
All in all I took over 650 pictures, so obviously I'm not going to post them all, but I do want to share a few so you guys can see that I was actually doing something the past 2 months and not just being lazy.
Just a reminder: This was a missions trip through my church and a majority of my time was spent working at a summer camp and sleeping in tents. If you are expecting to see a glammed-up Leanna, please expel that image from your head right now and prepare for roughing-it Leanna. :)
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| The lake near the campsite. |
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| Bombed-out building from the war on camp property. |
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| Showers! No hot water to be had... |
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| The tent village I lived in. |
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| Campers at the 1st kids camp. |
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| Meharia and myself. |
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| Cute little boy. |
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| Zip line. |
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| Singing. |
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| At the teenager's camp I was in charge of the jewelry station. Here I'm helping a boy make earrings for his mom. |
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| Some of the teens at the song writing workshop. |
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| Jumping rope. |
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| Me with the girls in my group during the 2nd kids camp. |
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| My oh-so-glamorous rain poncho. |
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| Where we had all of our meetings and worship. |
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| Precious. |
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| On the weekends in between camps the long term team would clean everything really well, and one time we even did the sleeping mats. |
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| Painting road signs for youth camp. |
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| Me and my good friend Muhamed. He said, and I quote, "You have to look like a lady for this picture, OK?" haha. |
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| Water balloon volleyball. |
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| Dina and Vanja, camp directors, and Juliana and Brooks, husband and wife team that ran games at all the camps. |
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| The long term team! There were 16 of us total. |
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| The day after camp ended the long term team went to Croatia for the day. This picture is on the way to the coast. |
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| Hellooo Croatia. :) |
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| Me and Kate, who is from the UK and has come to work at the camp for many years now. |
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| With Miss Aleksandra, who didn't know English but we got along splendidly anyways. |
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| Disgustingly gorgeous. |
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| Stacy (we came together from the same church), myself, Kate, Eldina, and Miki |
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| After we finished cleaning up camp, I went to Mostar for 3 days before coming home. The drive from camp to Mostar is GORGEOUS. You're on the river almost the whole way and the landscapes are just stunning. |
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| The Stari Most at night. |
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| A beggar girl in Mostar. I had to give her money to take her picture, naturally. Absolutely adorable. |
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| Me and Stacy. |
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| I've seriously wanted to see this bridge for years so I was super thrilled when I found out I'd be going to Bosnia. |
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| With Mostar in the background. |
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| This bridge isn't as grand, but it's actually older than the Stari Most ("Old Bridge"). |
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| B-e-a-utiful. |
All in all it was an amazing trip. I met loads of awesome, inspiring people and really learned a lot through the experience.
As I said in my previous post, I didn't get to do all the guest posts while I was gone like I wanted to, but I'm hoping to start putting those up over the next couple of days while I continue to recover from my trip (i.e. sitting around my house in my jammies watching Netflix all day). Hopefully in a week or so I'll be ready to get back to posting normal things again, but until then enjoy the guest posters I have for you!
