This week was the first completely jam-packed week of En Vivo! Mondays, my job is to make cookies to give out to our first-time visitors at our Tuesday lunch called Tertulia. It's pretty exciting because one of the first timers to Tertulia returned to come to Café Inglés on Wednesday, and to En Vivo Bible study on Thursday night, and she's going to come by the house on Monday to help me make cookies for next week's first timers! It's so exciting to see that new people feel so welcome and loved in this place, and that we get the privilege to show them how much they are loved, both by us, and by Christ.
Bible Study was great this week, I loved worshiping in Spanish, and watching some of the students' reactions to worship and to the charla (literally, a talk or chat, but here it's like a sermon-like talk). My favorite student's reaction was a girl named Espe. Espe has been to every event at the ministry so far this semester, and has been involved for some time, I believe. On Thursday night, she had her digital camera out , and put it on video mode and recorded the entire night's activities—the worship, the funny skit, the charla, and the fun pop songs that get played at the beginning of he evening. Her earnest desire to remember everything that was said that night was amazing to me, and quite refreshing, really. Praise God for students like that!
Class this week was actually fun! We had a substitute one day, who is a lot more organized than our regular teacher, so I feel like I was actually able to learn a bit about the Subjunctive tense that day. And we played Scattegories in Spanish on Friday. My team almost won!!
More observations:
1-Hot chocolate is different here. The chocolate that you get with churros con chocolate is thick like brownie mix, and delicious. They also have something called Cola-Cao. It's more like American hot cocoa mix, but more delicous, and is always made with milk.
2- Siesta. This is a time of day, from about 2-5 where people generally go home for lunch with their family, take a short nap and relax. In theory, this is a great idea. However, in practice, it means that basically when I have free time, all the stores in town are closed (class in the morning and En Vivo activities almost every night). I do like the Spanish approach to life, though: live life slowly, and enjoy it!
the title of this blog is a line from one of the pop songs we sang thursday night at en vivo. no one actually knows what it means, but it's been stuck in my head all week
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The title of the blog comes from The Killers song, "Human." I have been told(but no one really knows the true lyrics!) that the real lyrics are "Are we human or are we denser," which asks the question if we are just human or do we have more depth to our lives
I love hearing about everything that is going on en Espana!
haha, thanks anna for clearing that up! i never would have known... that makes so much more sense.
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