Hey sorry I haven´t had time to write for a while. We´ve been super busy here. Since Sunday we´ve been working puting bags of clothes together for the families. We had to get all of the clothes, sort them, then pick out clothes for each family according to who was in the family. Man, I didn´t know it would be that much work! Haah. But yeah, the food here is spectacular. No joke. I´m always sooo excited to eat...even if I´m not hungry. I honestly can´t even say how amazing it is.
The ladies got here Monday night to do the Mano Amiga thing. There are like four of them...I think. Hahaha, they´re pretty funny. It´s been fun having them here. We went to the market the other day. OH MY GOSH...that was nuts. Ummm...It´s a good thing I had a ¨bodyguard¨. It was pretty freaking awkward. I´ve got some funny stories about it though. We handed out bags to five families yesterday and thirteen today. Man, it´s really tiring...but oh so rewarding. The places where these people live is soooooooooooooooooooooo sad. In some of the houses I had to try and not breathe because if I did I would´ve barfed...it smelled SOOO bad. But man, it´s good stuff. I for sure want to come back and do this again.
Haha...oops, dinner was served a half an hour ago. MMmmmm probably should go.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Alright, so I don´t remember what I said last time. Oh well. It´s funny, at these internet places I swear they make the computers super slow so you pay more. haha. Let´s see...yesterday we went to Sams Club, Walmart, and Starbucks. It was fabulous. I got some presents for a few of you guys. They´re pretty sweet. OH, it started raining yesterday!! I was super dooper happy. Okay and apparently there is a coconut frapp at Starbucks now. Is that just for here or do any of you guys know if that is in the U.S. too? It was pretty fabulous.
Yesterday we went to a church service. Their church is a block away from the house. It was a small service. Be sure to pray for the church...it´s having somewhat of a rough time right now. After the service, we went back to the house. Everyone came over and we prayed for the church, then we ate ice cream, pineapple cake, and grilled cheese sandwitches. It was sooo good! Oh boy...so we were all sitting around the table and they were all trying to think of someone my age in their huge family that they could hook me up with. HAHA. Oh goodness...it was hilarious. So they were asking me what sports I like and all this stuff. I was for sure blushing. It was good stuff though.
Today we´ve just been hanging out. We went out and bought a ball for the kiddos to play with. MMmmmmm we just bought some ice cream. Gosh...so good. I love the ice cream here. It´s super good. But umm yeah. That´s pretty much the update for now. Indira´s uncle and his team get here tonight. So that´ll be fun.
Yesterday we went to a church service. Their church is a block away from the house. It was a small service. Be sure to pray for the church...it´s having somewhat of a rough time right now. After the service, we went back to the house. Everyone came over and we prayed for the church, then we ate ice cream, pineapple cake, and grilled cheese sandwitches. It was sooo good! Oh boy...so we were all sitting around the table and they were all trying to think of someone my age in their huge family that they could hook me up with. HAHA. Oh goodness...it was hilarious. So they were asking me what sports I like and all this stuff. I was for sure blushing. It was good stuff though.
Today we´ve just been hanging out. We went out and bought a ball for the kiddos to play with. MMmmmmm we just bought some ice cream. Gosh...so good. I love the ice cream here. It´s super good. But umm yeah. That´s pretty much the update for now. Indira´s uncle and his team get here tonight. So that´ll be fun.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Day One
We made it!! Our plane ride yesterday went just great. Nothing all that exciting. The Dallas Fort Worth Airport is huuuuuge! We had to walk quite a ways to get to our gate. The second plane we took from Dallas to Aguascalientes was a super small plane. It had 18 rows of three seats. It was pretty packed, hot, and smelly. But it was a smooth flight. So that was good.
We got picked up at the airport by Indira´s cousin and her husband. So we got to talk to them on the way to the house. It was like an hour or so drive. Ha...Indira has told everyone to only talk to me in Spanish....so that has been interesting. I´m for sure not talking as much here as I do back home haha. Mostly I´m just trying to figure out what the people around me are saying. It´s quite hard...but hopefully that will get easier as the week goes on.
Today we hung out for most of the day. We ate some breakfast then just relaxed. I went with two ladies up the mountain to try and find more poor families to hand out clothes to. At the top of the mountain it was super pretty. It reminded me of when we were in Juarez and we climbed up to that cross on the mountain that one night. You could see for forever up there. It was quite sad though. Up there it was super dry and there were lots of poor families. We´ll go back up there in like a week to hand out the clothes when the group gets down here.
When we got back to the house I slept. We didn´t get much sleep last night. Between the fireworks (that sounded like gun shots), the train, the crying cats, and having to go to the bathroom...little sleep was attained. Let´s hope that doesn´t happen tonight as well.
We got picked up at the airport by Indira´s cousin and her husband. So we got to talk to them on the way to the house. It was like an hour or so drive. Ha...Indira has told everyone to only talk to me in Spanish....so that has been interesting. I´m for sure not talking as much here as I do back home haha. Mostly I´m just trying to figure out what the people around me are saying. It´s quite hard...but hopefully that will get easier as the week goes on.
Today we hung out for most of the day. We ate some breakfast then just relaxed. I went with two ladies up the mountain to try and find more poor families to hand out clothes to. At the top of the mountain it was super pretty. It reminded me of when we were in Juarez and we climbed up to that cross on the mountain that one night. You could see for forever up there. It was quite sad though. Up there it was super dry and there were lots of poor families. We´ll go back up there in like a week to hand out the clothes when the group gets down here.
When we got back to the house I slept. We didn´t get much sleep last night. Between the fireworks (that sounded like gun shots), the train, the crying cats, and having to go to the bathroom...little sleep was attained. Let´s hope that doesn´t happen tonight as well.
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