A walk in the park: Day 4

Best of the day: Sitting in the apartment-side park reading in the afternoon sun.

Worst of the day: The moment when the rain came and pushed me inside.
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Today I went to church with a few of the ECA teachers, to a church that uses the school's auditorium. It's called "Vida Bogotá". WHAT a LOVELY thing to be back in Spanish church services again! We sang several songs that I knew, and the sermon was well-delivered, and I very much enjoyed the whole thing. After the service, I spoke with a couple ECA folks, and talked with R, a student who had visited Glen Ellyn Bible Church a few months back. We talked for a short while--it's just so nice to reconnect where I never was sure I could here. :)

I rode home on the bus with the ladies, and had lunch at their apartment. Tasty pasta. Then I went back to the apartment I am staying in for the afternoon. I went and figured out how to get into the park right next to our apartment, and then spent an hour or so just sitting on the bench, reading in the sun, and listening to the gritas (shouts) of the kids on the fútbol pitch. It was nice. Soon, though, the weather changed (as in Bogotá it is wont to do), and I got cold and was beginning to get soggy.

I was able to skype with family after that, and then welcomed Marv & Judy (my hosts) home from their weekend trip to "hot country". I got slightly less envious when I saw all of poor Judy's vicious bug bites...

I'm about to start a full week, and am very excited at the prospects it holds. I might serve as translator some of the days for a work team that has come down from somewhere in Illinois. How cool is that?

Sending love. xoxo