Rabbits and Fliers and Class! Oh My!

Yesterday was an interesting day.

We had our last Spanish class of the week, which included a quiz over what we had learned this week. In the afternoon, we also had our class that is in English. For me this is New Testament, for Kevin it is Christian Faith. Since Stan is teaching both, our first 2 days of class were combined, but from now on they'll be separate. Though I will probably end up sitting in on Christian Faith when they are discussing things I find interesting. Also, after class, Stan offered to make Kevin and I Bible covers out of leather, which will be very nice to have for my paper back Bilingual Bible.

On Friday's we go to chapel with the seminary students. Since, yesterday was our first full Friday on campus, it was also our first time in chapel.

After chapel I headed back to my room until it was time for lunch. I was relaxing and checking some things online, when Carla came in and told me to come with her and bring my camera, we were having rabbit, cooked over a fire, for lunch. So, I went with her to find the whole rabbits being put on a grate over a fire along with whole chickens. If you want to see pictures of the cooking process, click on the title of this post, "Rabbits and Fliers and Class! Oh My!" When the rabbits were mostly cooked they took them off the fire and removed some organ that I don't know what it was and some people ate it. I tried a piece and it was pretty good. I just wish I knew what it was. We moved the tables and chairs from the cafeteria outside to eat lunch. The rabbit tasted kind of like chicken (which, if you didn't know, I don't really like), but it was a little different and I like it more than chicken.

Before dinner, a group of us headed to Carcelen to hand out fliers. These were to spread the news about the Nazarene elementary school in Carcelen. We split up into groups of 3 and wore some funny things like clown wigs, funny hats, and funny glasses. I got to wear heart shaped sun glasses. I was a little nervous about this. In the U.S., most people would give you dirty looks or say things because you were wasting their time and people just don't like being handed things by complete strangers. Also, by wearing funny things, we stood out, which I don't like to do in any situation, but especially in a city in a different country that I am still unfamiliar with and where I have been told many, many times to try to blend in as much as possible. I was very surprised to find how open people were to being handed fliers. Not only did they take the fliers, they usually read them. They often said, "Gracias," asked questions, or if you missed them, they would sometimes even come and ask for a flier. And because we were wearing funny things, they seemed very curious and wanted to know what we were handing out. It was a really cool experience.