Last Weekend

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Yesterday; all my troubles seemed so far awayyy...

Anyway moving right along; we went to church in the morning and had a nice time with them – Rob had the sermon, he preached about Elijah and how we needed to trust only in God, and he did well. Following church we came back home and ate lunch, and then I went for a walk on the beach since it was my last opportunity to take pictures. It was a lovely sunny day and was very pleasant; a little on the warm side, but it was nice. On the way back down the beach I met up with Johannes who had been swimming, so we walked back together and then he showed me this banana plantation not too far away that he had discovered the other day. In it we found some bananas that were actually ripe and so we ate some of them and in the process were bitten by these ferocious ants, so I quickly vacated that scenario. There was supposed to be a program in the afternoon from 2:00 to 4:00, but it started a little late and ended up going until nearly 5:00. It consisted of some special musics, and talks from various people. For example, Eli and Patrick talked about Daniel (giving them an overview of what we do in our Bible classes) and Henrietta and Kestas had a presentation of EBS and what the courses are like, and also they showed what the mission trip had been like, what we had done, some of our experiences, etc.
Once the program was over Rob and I decided to go to this town called Punto Cortes, which was about an hour bus ride away. We were told by several people that it was very dangerous to travel by bus that day, but we decided to go anyway, taking only some money in our pockets making it impossible to be stolen, and tried to look as inconspicous as possible. We walked down the road for a while waiting for the bus to come, and then we stopped at a little store to wait for it, since that was one of it's stops. After some time it came along, and off we went. We arrived with no incidents of danger, and walked around for a season, stopping for one store only, and then we moved on to Pizza Hut where we ate our supper. After that, since it was getting late we thought it would be best to go back rather than stay in for any longer, so that is what we did. The last bus went back at 8:00pm or so, and it was beyond that by this time, so we hailed the nearest taxi. The only problem was that the driver couldn't understand what Rob was telling him and didn't know what our destination was. So we drove for a minute until he came to a place where he thought he could find someone to translate. 2 people came over simultaneously and also could not understand him, so Rob tried to think of the alternative pronounciation that may help them to be able to find the place, which he succeeded in and the light bulb flashed on, and off we went with our taxi driver. It was unfortunately more expensive than we thought it would be since it was night time (according to the driver it was always cheaper in the daytime) but we didn't exactly have a choice, so we just went with him.

After we arrived back to San Ignacio (our place of abode) I was informed of a crocodile that inhabited a nearby pool in the zoo, so Marylin, Kestas, Eli and I went to go see it. We found all manner of other animals on the way, and we made a friend with a blind raccoon and he followed us everywhere we walked. After we had found the crocodiles and all the rest, we found some peddle boats and took that out, and then Marylin and I went in this little dinghy afterwards and paddled around for a little bit in the little pool they had made for such a purpose. Then I went back to pack my bag again, which I didn't end up doing because Miriam (the girl who cooked for us) gave us massages, and shortly after that I went to sleep for about two hours until 2:30am whereupon I finished packing and we left for the airport.

The rest of the group left with only a couple of difficulties of people having lost some paper that they needed, but as far as I know they all got on the plane, but Danny may have been left behind, we are not exactly sure.

Now Marta, Werner, Eli, and I are in Aseyco (some office building) using their internet, and then they will leave and Eli and I are going to a hotel. These people are quite ridiculous. The plans have changed about 5 times since I have last heard. At first we were supposed to stay at this same place we were at all weekend, then this man named Saloman said he was going to take us, then he said he was going to get us hotel rooms, then a lady named Daisy Mae was going to take me, and Eli would stay with Saloman, THEN we were both staying with Saloman, then Daisy Mae said she wanted to adopt me, and NOW apparantly we are going back to the hotel idea, and I hope it doesn't change again.

Daisy Mae is the lady I am supposed to be staying with later on, so we'll see if that plan remains solid or not until then...

When I was told that she was going to take me today, I was also told that I needed to wear something nice because she was going to take me out, her and her daughter who is apparantly my age. That frightened me slightly since I had no idea where and what we would be doing, and then I heard that neither of them spoke English, and then I heard that the daughter did speak English and oh my goodness these people make no sense at all! So many different plans and ideas, never knowing which one we will end up with!! But I am happy about the whole hotel thing now though...as long as it stays that way. :P