Today was a big long day, in a good way. This morning at nine o'clock I walked over to La Vina to help cook the food for the feeding center. I ending up spending about an hour opening yogurt containers and pouring them into a huge pot, then cutting up millions are fruits to put in the yogurt. At the church kitchen everyone rinses whatever they're about to use before using it. Today while I was standing in front of the sink rinsing off a cutting board, there was a horse outside the window right in front of me! One thing I've noticed that is very different here is that, even in a neighborhood, there are goats and horses roaming around everywhere. In fact this morning as I waked past the park I saw two horses eating some grass on the soccer field, and that wasn't the first time that I'd seen that.
Another thing which is interesting are the drinks that people make. So far I've had three lemonade-like drinks. The first one is made with from tamarind pulp. It looks like brown colored lemon sitting in the bottom of the drink but it tasted good, especially because who knows how much sugar was put into it. The second one was Pepino juice which I loved. Pepinos(cucumbers) are my favorite food and who doesn't like water and sugar?...So mix them all together and you've made magic! It's the same idea as lemonade except for better in my opinion because the cucumber taste is very refreshing. The third one, that I had today, was pineapple juice, which wasn't my cup of tea at all. Lesson learned: I'm not going to be eating pineapples anytime soon.
After the feeding center was over one of my little bros, Ethan, and I went over to our friends house. Ethan is 6 and his best friend, Angel(On-hell) has two older siblings: Lupita, age 12 and Javiarcito(Ha-viar-cito) age 14 almost 15. So we had a blast! We all rode to their house, 7 of us in their 5 person car, and stopped on the way to get some pollo(chicken) and some fresh tortillas from one of the millions of tortillas. After a delicious lunch of beans, chicken, peppers, and tortillas, Esther,their mom, gave us some thumb-shaped, red-colored lolly-pops. Everyone except for Ethan tore theirs open with excitement which I should have noticed as a red flag. I was expecting a sweet and spicy Chile tasting lolly-pop, but it was mint, not a good kind of mint. Lesson learned: Mexican lolly-pops aren't what you think they are.
After a couple more hours of painting nails, playing guitar and hanging out we went back to church for worship night. At La Vina there are worship nights or classes every Saturday night and today was a worship night. It was just a whole hour or so of singing songs. I loved it! I only knew a couple of the songs but it was very relaxing. At some point in the middle, one of my friends pulled me aside because they were very upset. She was crying and talking in rapid Spanish so I only understood bits and pieces of what she was saying. Lesson learned: You can be there for someone by just being there. Even if you don't understand what they're saying, just nodding understandably and offering a hug can give someone all the love and support that they need!
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