My friend Suzanna started her last blog post with this: "Today is a day ended with legitimate gratefulness to be alive." And that's exactly how I feel!
Last Saturday I went to Pillar with my friends, a place where they like to play soccer and swim. This was my first time playing soccer and running (this much) since I broke my ankle, so I was a little apprehensive but it was good therapy for my ankle and for helping me get over hating soccer! Afterwards, we swam in the frigid swimming pool filled with water straight from the mountains. It's always fresh so it has no time to warm up! It felt great to all of us, though, and especially my ankle which was really feeling it from the running!
After church on Sunday, a bunch of us went to work in Pastores where there are houses being built for twelve families who lost their homes because of all the flooding. We spent the afternoon digging trenches, preparing for pipes to be laid. We had a great time getting dirty and getting a good workout..... and finding out that we were digging on an old cemetery. Yeah, that was weird! People were finding some bones as they dug and someone found a skull! Anatomy and Physiology class while we work!
The houses
Shoveling away...
Uh... did we dig too deep???
Hey....Carlos has a skull!
We ended the fun weekend by playing pool and foosball at a local restaurant. My friends are freakin' amazing at pool, and let's just say I'm working on it... my friend Carlos (who is pretty much a professional) is attempting to teach me... :)
Elisabeth went back to the States yesterday (for one day before she heads to the DR for a week!), so I'm on my own walking to school and such, but I'm having a great time. I love my classes and have met some really cool fellow students who also go to the same church as me. I'm beginning to be able to carry on more conversation with my teacher, and sometimes we talk about interesting topics... How I'm scared of bears at my house and she's scared of dogs on the streets at her house, how we don't think having debt in order have a nicer houses and cars and other stuff is a good idea, how she wants to have her second child soon but if she doesn't then she wants to adopt a baby, how babysitting is a good idea for practicing how to care for kids and know how to handle hard situations, how sometimes when we are sick we question why we have problems and why not somebody else, but how we shouldn't wish our suffering on anyone else and should trust that God knows why we go through what we do... and just about every other random topic, and I love it! And sometimes she brings me fruit from the trees at her house... Guatemala has some amazing fruits that I've never had in the States, like nisperos and granadias, for example. Oh, and I'm very happy to say that I beat her in Spanish Scrable! It was obviously all luck and no skill, but it was very exciting nonetheless!
I am so thankful to love what I'm learning and look forward to class each day. I can't imagine anything better and am continually grateful to the Lord for His provision in my life of a great place to live, learn, serve, and have a great church and community of friends.
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