Day 47 March 16, 2009 (Mon)

I had a great weekend. On Friday night, I just chilled out at home. It was really relaxing.

On Saturday, I went out with Alex, Maria and my friend Kate to the neighborhood we had visited before for Youth ministry. I think they've become something to look forward to because as we pulled down this long and dusty road, the kids started pouring out of the surrounding houses. We sat them all down then sang some songs and Maria used a couple kids to act out a bible story. Then we fed them a little snack of cookies and milk. Right before we left, Maria gathered them all in a circle, everybody held hands and she prayed. It was a cool day.

On Sunday, I got up really early in the morning to go with my friend Evelyn and her husband Reynaldo. Evelyn has been taking English classes but the day was still difficult at times when we all would try to understand each other. Anyways, they took me up to their farm. The ride to get there was terrifying. There are all these curvy roads going up and down mountains. Evelyn told me that lots of people get into accidents, she probably should have told her husband that because he was driving like a maniac. On the way home, we both got sick with headaches.

The farm was very tranquilo. They used to have a bunch of chickens but then they started eating all of them. They have a ton of fruit trees though. I saw bananas. We ate mangos and this other little green fruit that was really sour so we had to put salt on everything. I ate some other pretty exotic things that day. For breakfast, Evelyn bought me this cup of "cream" she called it and a tortilla. So you're supposed to put salt into the cup and mix it around then drink it and eat the tortilla. Well, turns out, the "drink" is kind of like milk but it's sour so they call it "sour milk." Gross. It tasted fine but I could only handle a little bit. I don't think regular milk is supposed to have chunks in it. I did remember to pray both before and after meals though.

Right before we left, we took a little adventure hike down to the river. It was so beautiful. I really wish I had taken photos. It was tucked behind all these trees and there are big rocks to sit on all over the place. There were some little boys playing down a little ways. It was just peaceful and oh so beautiful.

For lunch, we actually went to the mall and ate at a food court which was awesome. I got Quizno's Subs because I miss it from back home. It sure did not compare but it was pretty good. I also couldn't resist getting some breadsticks from Pizza Hut even though I was already full.

Sunday night of course, we had church at our house and Alex and Maria are into this new thing where they make me sing acapella before sermons for church because I told them I'm not a singer. I don't understand why either.