Guatemala otra vez – el dia siete

After a fitful night (I tossed and turned with many things on my mind), the alarm woke me up today. That is unusual, because I normally am awake before the alarm goes off. I followed the normal morning routine and headed off to catch the bus to school. We shared a great devotion and had the bus driver, in addition to the teachers, join us for prayer this morning. John, we may start a Methodist Church at La Union yet! My teacher didn’t cut me any slack today even though I started off a little slow. We jumped right in to the verbos reflexivos. I was having a real mental block this morning and just could not figure out the pattern for these verbs. The break was my breakthrough. After we came back together from “la pausa”, suddenly it all seemed to fall into place. We will see what kind of retention I have Monday morning.
We didn’t have our meeting at lunch today because we had an afternoon activity that I had forgotten about. I encouraged folks to be sure to go to the bank during lunch and exchange money if necessary for the weekend because I wasn’t sure if they would be able to do so in Chichicastenango. It seems that my computer has become a point of interest during lunch because two of the team members wanted to “check” their email and an hour and a half later, I got to sign on for fifteen minutes to upload photos. I found out this morning that my family has Wi-Fi in the home, so hopefully I will be able to use the computer at night and stop taking it back and forth to school. As of this moment though, I can’t seem to get a connection. Oh well, it was a good thought anyway.
This afternoon we went to “La Azotea”, three museums in one. It houses a museum which gives the history of Mayan music and instruments, displays typical Mayan clothing, and then the coffee museum. Of course they had a gift shop, but I think most folks wanted to wait and spend their money in Chichicastenango.
Tomorrow we hop on the “microbus” to head to Panajachel Atitian where we will visit a pueblo, take a boat ride across the lake and then spend the night in a motel. On Sunday, we will head to Chichicastenango to the market. There is a huge market there where we can find the best bargains. There is also a Methodist church located in the middle of the market. We are hoping to be able to join them for worship, but as of right now, we don’t know the time of the service.
The only casualty so far has been Craig. He has some type of gastrointestinal issue that prevented him from visiting the museums this afternoon. I hope that he is up to the two hour drive tomorrow, otherwise he will be missing out on quite a bit. This is the only time that we will be traveling any distance from Antigua other than the time we will spend in El Salvador. Tonight should be a fairly relaxed evening since I don’t have massive amounts of “tarea” to complete. I am looking forward to the mental break.
I just found out this afternoon that my daughter, Jennifer, is headed to Haiti on Monday. She is one of two from her anesthesia group that is going. I will be in prayer for her because I know that it will be physically and emotionally draining to be in the midst of such devastation.
Well, Paulo just came in and gave me the correct network key to get on the internet! Now I can post from home and leave the computer here. I will not be posting again until Sunday night. Dios les bendiga a todos.