27/09/2008

currently listening to: So Long to the Holidays, Ugly Casanova

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but nothing exciting has happened. This past week may have been the shortest week of my life.

On Friday we had a spiritual walk. I had three minutes to some up my ‘spiritual journey.’ I thought to myself, “they obviously do not know who I am…” In short, I told them that the defining themes in my life are “death, adventure, and the search for authenticity.” I think the latter two are the same, but I felt like three points would be better than two would.

Today I watched the office via a Chinese tv broadcasting website… NBC blocks everything outside of the US, which is a good idea, but makes things tricky for the international travelers. After this, we had a few games of futbol cinco. That was fun.

I have wanted to make some cookies for my family here, so after futbol, Rachel and I went to the store in order to get the necessary items. Once home, I ate some sopa (soup) which was delicious since it was cold, dark, and rainy outside. Then the family watched the futbol game on the tele while Kattia and I made some cookies! They were great, but the horno (oven) works a little differently here. At any rate, we enjoyed some crispy bottomed, dried fruit (including pineapple, banana, and more!), dark chocolate, oatmeal cookies. ¡Que rica!

That is about it, tomorrow is church, and then I’m going with Pablo to help him do some work… We are delivering a load of materials to some “pretty area” right outside of San Jo.