Faith & Flowers: Highlights of the Week

I have decided to become a better blogger. We will see how long this particular "kick" lasts, but hopefully for my readers' sakes it will last until I leave Peru at the end of May.

I want to start by giving credit to my wonderful boyfriend for redesigning my blog. Aren't ya'll impressed with his handy work? He was making changes to his blog on Wednesday and I got a little jealous and asked him to make mine look "prettier". And of course I had to work on the title, I'm mean how could it still be "Jungle Bound" when I left the jungle nearly 9 months ago now? So, we talked on skype and worked on the new look. He actually was able to put one of the photographs (the llamas) that I took up in the mountains and make it into the header thing. I'm just so impressed. He also added that little international counter thing to the bottom. So ya'll tell all your international friends to come and visit so they can be counted! If you want to tell Chris how well he did you can click on his link to the right and leave him a comment on his blog.

Chris--just in case ya'll forgot how cute he is (or maybe you never knew)

Now, on to the highlights of the week. Wednesday night I went to ESL class with my roommate. (My class will begin on Sunday night.) They have a rule in class that no one can use a Spanish word to explain something unless the teacher asks for the Spanish word. If the person does use a Spanish word they have to wear "Regina" until someone else slips up and uses Spanish.

The following is "Regina": The girl is not Regina, the hat is. This is Kristen (one of my roommates) wearing the hat after Solomon (a good friend and one of our translators) tricked her into speaking Spanish. Daniel, a student, asked me if I had a camera so that I could take her picture. So, I did, but ironically the very next person to speak Spanish was Daniel. He wasn't quite as excited about me having my camera with me then!

Daniel

After class several of us went to McDonalds so that we could eat french fries with ice cream. Solomon LOVES ice cream and several of our summer missionaries from last year had told him how good french fries and ice cream are together (you dip the fries into the ice cream-- usually done with frosties at Wendy's, but we had to improvise). So, we promised him that when we returned from Chile we would go get some french fries and ice cream.

Here we are. . .

Annibal y Solomon (two of our ESL students)

And last but not least, today my roommates and I had a day out with the girls. A couple of girls from Delaware are helping an ISC couple here with their English ministry and the girls will be leaving on Sunday. So, they invited us to go hang out at a local pool and then have a homemade supper afterwards. It was so much fun to hang out with them and hear about how the Lord has led them thus far in their lives. We just sat around sharing testimonies and listening to one another. And of course there was talk of boys and love-- I mean what girls' outing is complete without that?

This would be me going down the slide at the kiddy pool, yes i said kiddy pool

Judy fixed us an amazing meal when we returned from the swimming pool. We had roast with potatoes and carrots, an amazing salad with Bacos and Ranch dressing all the way from the states, and an apple pie a la mode that was out of this world! Oh, and dare I forget the sweet tea?!

I was pretty excited about the ranch dressing!

But before digging into all of that I decided that it was time for my braids to come down. All the girls helped me get them down and the reverse process was 3 hours less than the ordeal 2 weeks ago.

The girls patiently taking down my hair