Holidays!

Well, it wouldn't be Bolivia without some holidays. This week there are only two days of school, yesterday and today. Monday was a holiday observing the Trinidad holiday which was this past weekend. Tomorrow is a national catholic holiday (Corpus Christie) and Friday the school is observing National Teacher's Day, which was today. So, I have a four day weekend!

Monday, I packed bags of food with Lucho, MaryLynn and one other guy from the church for the flood victims. We got a list of the families from one of the nearby communities and filled a bag for each family with different amounts accordingly. We gave them rice, sugar, flour, beans, pasta, coffee, hot chocolate and soap that is meant to last each family two weeks. It felt so good to be able to help out with this, that I was really making a difference. Yesterday, the pastor went with some of the older students and they distributed the bags to this community and the pastor gave a short message there.

This week, I'm taking a leaders course for the JV version of AWANA. It's all in Spanish, but I have been able to understand pretty much everything. Trying to take notes though is difficult because the guy that's leading the course (who is from La Palmera) is moving really fast. Even the Bolivians in the class with me said the same thing. We will be finishing the class on Sunday afternoon and then have an exam on Monday.

Tonight, I'm going to my first professional soccer game in Bolivia, at the big stadium here in town. There is a guy I know who goes to the La Palmera church who is on the local team (Real Mamore). They have a tough game tonight against a team from Santa Cruz called the Destroyers, but the guy I know is going to play. Should be an interesting experience.