yesterday morning started with preschool for me. they are so funny. we were playing with playdough and Zoe told me before they left i had to frisk their pockets to make sure they didn't take playdough. She said it's happened before haha. I just love it.
Then Alicia and I went to Pelileo for the afternoon. It's a town about an hours bus ride away and is known for it's jeans. I really needed a pair since the babies pee on mine all the time and it's hard to fit in time for laundry. So we shopped for a bit then ate at a little hole in the wall and had fried plantain, potatoes, roasted corn and pork. SO good. then we just walked around for a bit in the sunshine before catching the bus back.
Alicia and I with her new dreads that we've been working on.
patchwork fields...every space is used, even steep hillsides
When walking back to the Ark from the bus we ran into Isaac and a bunch of people who were going to a concert that we wanted to go to. So we planned to go back to the Ark to get permission then catch a taxi to meet up with them. So far so good. The taxi driver knew where the church was and everything but when we got there the gates were locked, there were no cars or people anywhere and the lights were turned off. The driver tried to leave us there but we convinced him to take us to another church with the same name. We saw a couple people we knew there and there was some kind of performance there so we stayed...only to find out Isaac really wasnt there and it wasnt a concert but a church talent show. [side note...we stayed for a minute to watch them perform noah's ark and watched as winnie the pooh marched into the ark, then watched in horror as they sacrificed the little lamb. That child will be scarred for life]. We quickly realized that we didn't really know where we were, we couldn't communicate very well with anyone, we didn't have enough money for another taxi, and we didn't know any phone numbers. So we prayed. We decided people were going to worry and we needed to somehow call someone. So we walked out, hoping to find a phone...and there was one right next door. We found the Allans number in the phonebook and thankfully they were able to call Isaac to come get us. It turns out the concert wasnt that night at all, they were somewhere completely different in a house church. Plan for next week...buy a cellphone. The night was really great though, we ended up at Calamare's house church where we prayed and sang songs for a while, then ended up driving around as usual dropping people off and ended up at the bus stop where that guy and his wife makes the wicked awesome fish soup, encebellados de pascado. It tasted even better this time. We took it with us and so there i was eating soup in the back of a moving truck at 12 in the morning. It was glorious.
Today Alicia and I took some of the older girls for a walk. It was an amazingly beautiful day and it was lots of fun. We walked down the road a bit to an ice cream place called Mickos. They had a courtyard in the back so we just hung out on the grass and ate ice cream. All of them know english pretty well so we've been trying to take advantage of that and get to know them better since we only work with the younger kids.
Other things that have been going on are the Allans have started watching Lost in the evenings, we had an awesome bible study last thursday, Alicia is getting dreads, and a new volunteer came today! Her name is Rachel and she's from England but she's been travelling latin america for 15 months! We've only just met her but I'm already excited to hear more about her adventures.
ciao for now, daniella
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