So, I guess it’s been awhile… Since Spring Break, the girlies took me out for my bday, I celebrated Día de la Madre with my host mom and her sons, watched a Project Runway marathon with Bri, went shopping, spoke some Spanish (haha), had a Bible study, went to Tierra Santa (the Holy Land), went to Uruguay, and went to a fashion show.
To highlight a few things, we went dancing for my bday and I was “kidnapped” by the worst kidnappers ever! Ha- they tried. But it was a great bday, filled with good company and DANCING!! Who could ask for more??
Día de la Madre (Mother’s Day) was cute. I did a little treasure hunt for Haydee which she enjoyed, and then it was great to spend the day with her and her family. She wasn’t expecting anything for mother’s day and her son’s surprised her with lunch and she pulled out all her fine china. She was really happy to be with her family and it was great to see her so happy.
One of my friend’s here, Bri, and I started to do a mini-Bible study, which is great! It’s keeping us in touch with God since it’s difficult to find our niche in a Spanish speaking country. The churches are nice and everything, but it's hard to really learn anything when it takes so long to translate what they're saying.
Oh wow Tierra Santa! It’s a holy theme park here designed to tell the story of the Bible. It’s figurines and statues set up throughout the park with some shows of moving figurines. There was a GIANT Jesus – the size of a goal post on a football field and the Creation show was the last thing we saw. There was a sexy live belly dancer which I didn’t understand at all. The only thing I liked about the park was that at each Bible story, they posted a few words describing the story and the Bible verse it referred to. This way, we could know for sure what was going on. Besides that, it was funny in an odd way, but it mostly upset me how much it was just like a crappy
We went to Colonia, Urugay this last weekend with IES. 75 American students boarded a boat and set off across the Río de la Plata. It was a short relaxing trip. We ate fattening Chivito: a huge pile starting with French fries on the bottom, followed by lomo (a cut of beef), then cheese, then fried egg, we drank yummy drinks, and we lied on the beach. Oh how I miss the beach…
Today, Amanda and I went to a cool fashion show sponsored by some hair dying product. It was so funny and cool. The models would come out in these ridiculous outfits and the announcers would talk about Silkey hair dying products. Some of the clothes were super cute and we kind of wished there were free give aways, but a lot of it was suitable for a Barbie/Wonder Woman.
And we’re getting ready for another trip…
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