2-23

It’s already the start to a new week! I really can’t believe that’s it’s going by so fast. Hopefully my Spanish will be as quick as the time seems to be . I’ve still been reading out of my Spanish learning books(or should I say “Yo leer mucho Espanole libro”) Oh man, that’s probably not worded correctly. And I’m so thankful that many of the kids are to patient with me. Yesterday was pretty lax. We started out day out with Mass which was pretty amazing! I loved the music that was sung. It was a lot of the little girls from the Hogar, the Gloria really touched me. That really got me excited to participate in all the masses to come. But like a mentioned earlier there is only one mass a week at the Hogar. But I can always go down the street to go to El Spiritu Sanctu chapel.

It was nice to have a day in the week where you can rest and that’s what we did. Some of the kids watched a movie and some went out into the town to the tenida’s (shop’s). All the kids every week get a little allowance to go and buy food. It’s not much at all(like 10 peso’s, less then a dollar in American. But you should see how happy they get for the little bit. It’s enough to go out into the town and buy some candy and a drink. I went buy me a manazana life( it’s pretty amazing!) Oh, I also met some new people yesterday after Mass. Sarah, and I forgot the other one’s name. Anyway Sarah lived at the Casa last year. She’s 21 now( She said that she remember you Angelle, from last year) I think a lot of the people that went to the Casa before go to Mass on Sunday. After Mass Sarah, Larena, and I went to get some ice cream. It was great stuff! I got a Pina colada de Lecha, it was really great, and came in a bag. Which I’ve been wanting to do.

So the craziest thing happened today! Our car totally broke down in the middle of the road! I was on my way back from bringing the kids to school. And you would never guess why??? No Gasolina! Welp thank goodness the Conee was with me, he actually Pepe’s brother. He doesn’t know much English but I was able to get my point across that we were going to have to walk to a gas station and get there quickly, because we had to bring more kids to school in like 20 minutes. So me and Conee ran down the street to get to the station and a man there was nice enough to put some gas that we payed for in a jug and drive us down the road to put the gas in the car. My guess is that it’s not the first time that’s happened with him. He didn’t seem to be to shocked about it. So, haha! That was a pretty amusing adventure!

Last night Madre Threasa came buy my room because she heard that I had recorded Pepe playing piano. She also wanted to tell me how much she really loved his talent. He is really amazing and I think he’s going to be a great pianist. She was telling me that he really needs to get some exposure. There is a great school in Guadalajara that has a program but they don’t have the resources to help him. I told her that I would show the video of him playing to see if I could find any support for him. He really needs to get a good keyboard all he had right now is the Convent’s houses keyboard and he can only use the for a little bit a day. Madre told me that he has a portable keyboard buy it’s not very good at all. So if any of you would be willing to donate or find a used but still good full size keyboard that would be so awesome. I told Madre I would help as much as I can. The video that I have above is just one short piece of him playing. I have more that I’ll use when I make a documentary for my trip. 