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| my sissy Rebeca! |
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| my twin brothers |
I love working with my host mom,
Angelica. She is one of the sweetest and most patient people I know. I spent my
first day working with her on Tuesday, and it was wonderful. If something is
dropped or done wrong, she doesn’t get frustrated or overly worried. She just
smiles and helps fix it. She always finds something for me to help out with,
and isn’t afraid to help me experiment with cooking, even if I suck at it. Even
if I’m the slowest onion cutter in the world, she’ll let me do it.
On Wednesday I also worked, but with
Anita, our neighbor. She doesn’t allow me to do as much as Angelica does when
it comes to cooking, but I was able to get some things done. I got to spend
time with the Geneva group. I got to talk more thoroughly with two girls, Ana
and Rebecca. There are a lot of girls on the team, and it’s been nice to spend
a little time with them when I can. I even sang with Ana during their free
time!
I also met an El Refugio intern,
Kaitlynn, who has also been wonderful! After work on Tuesday we went back to my
house during our free time and talked and had coffee. She’s so much fun to hang
out with! We also spent some time doing something special for the Geneva girls.
=)
Last week I didn’t do very much, but
Santy and I are finally have a schedule done! I’ll finally get to work, and he
will, too. While Santy did a lot of work and homework, I did a lot of cash
tasks for money on Inbox Dollars (ask me about it!). I got to learn some
Italian, as the tasks I did were in Italian, hahaha!
Last Wednesday Santy had to take his
mom to Quito to get her chemo. She’s so strong and is now able to function
pretty well after the chemo. She doesn’t get sick much anymore, and although
she gets tired, she still gets up to do things. As I said before, I swear they
are one of the strongest families I know.
Unfortunately I got sick last week,
and it’s lingering a bit. Last Tuesday I started getting a sore throat and
congestion, which pretty much everyone has right now (including my little
brothers). So while Santiago went into Quito, he bought me some medicine at a
pharmacy, and now I feel much better!
Then Friday I went to the church
service with Santiago. He, again, gave a message about the Holy Spirit, and
it’s so cute seeing him be like a pastor—asking questions and using analogies. Afterwards
we watched another movie—“Seeking a Friend for the End of the World”. A few
days earlier we watched “A Haunted House”, which was pretty funny! We’re trying
to spend a little more time together because recently I’ve been spending a lot
of time alone, which is great, but I’d like to see Santy more, too!
Saturday I spent a lot of alone
time, which was nice. I purposely woke myself up early so I could eat some
breakfast and get ready early. Then I played guitar, which was wonderful, and
did my devotions outside. I spent some time with God and nature, loving the
weather and watching the chicks hide inside their momma chicken. Princesa, the
family dog, kept me company as I read.
On Sunday we got to church, and I
was able to see the American missionaries leading worship. It was nice to have
some live worship! We also attempted to make pasta sauce yet again, and
although it didn’t come out exactly the same, it still was good!
On Monday Santiago and I went out to
get some pizza for dinner! It was, of course, delicious but really funny. The
service left much to be desired. The waitress, who took a long time to get to
us, took a long time writing down our order. I’m not kidding when I say it took
her ten minutes to write down “cheeseburger, personal pizza, and 2 sodas”. In
fact, when Santiago said, “Sprite”, she was writing for at least thirty
seconds. I wanted to laugh! How long does it take to write “Sprite”?
So then while we were waiting, the
smoke alarm, which was right above us, went off! The manager put a ladder right
next to my seat to go up and turn it off. We were so shocked that we were
laughing.
Not that this wasn’t strange enough,
but when we got our food, our pizza, which should have been 4 slices, was 10
slices. We had to get the manager, who then told us we were probably wrong and
confused when we ordered. I said no because Santiago specifically said
“personal, the 4 slices one” several times. Clearly, although the waitress took
a long time to write the order, she still didn’t get it right! So they took it
back and cut off the other pieces.
It was a little annoying, but it’s
just funny to see these little cultural things. In America, servers have to
play the “customers right” game and make the customers happy, waitresses are
taught how to write the quickest slips possible, and if a smoke alarm went off,
people probably would flee the building.
The bathroom was also outside, and,
as we were walking over, Santiago jokingly said to me that it was probably
outside so that people could still go to the bathroom if there was a fire in
the restaurant.
So that was my week! Next week I’ll
be spending a lot of time working in El Refugio with the Geneva group again and
hopefully filling up more time in my schedule. It’s already been a month since
I’ve been here, and I’m hoping the rest of the time that I’m here has more
wonderful things in store!
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