So my Spanish has gotten so much better but it is still pretty bad at the same time haha. you hear those stories about people getting their words mixed up and end up either offending someone or making a total fool out of themselves well I can now say that that has happened to me… a lot. I always thought to myself how can someone really do that well now I know how. I’m sure I have made a fool out of myself many times but there are two times in particular that I remember and they both happened on Friday. The first one I meant to say “when I talk does it sound funny” but instead I said “when you talk you sound funny” at first I didn’t know why Zelena was staring at me and then I thought back to what I said and we both started cracking up laughing. Haha those verbs get so confusing and I forgot to change the ending which totally screwed the whole sentence up lol. The second one was when me and Zelena were outside watching the kids and we were going over Spanish and English together and she asked me what the weather was like and instead of saying “it’s sunny without a cloud in the sky” I said “it’s sunny with no sky” and all the kids started laughing at me and I couldn’t help but realize how funny I sound when I talk.
Another funny thing that happened was when we were giving all the babies a bath and as we give them baths the older boys come in and shower too. Well Brandon, one of the older boys left his shoes out and Tavita, who is two and not potty-trained was by his shoes and no joke I saw it all happen, she stood up over his shoes squatted and peed right in them then got up and waddled away. I couldn’t help but die laughing and no one else saw it so they all just stared at me wondering what I was laughing at. I told Jose (one of the older boys that wasn’t in the shower yet) and he started laughing too and then told Brandon all about it. it is now the joke that when its bath time Brandon needs to watch where he puts his shoes haha.
So now that I shared two funny moments with you now it’s time for an awkward moment. You all may just laugh but to me it was creepy and awkward haha. So there is this guy here that goes to the church and he likes me or something. Well the Ventana kids warned me about him before they left haha they said that he had liked one of the interns that came before me and that I may be the next candidate. He had come up and tried to talk to me when I first got here but lucky for me I didn’t speak Spanish very well so there really wasn’t much to be said. Well I had told Melissa and Elizabeth about him and that I think he likes me because he always tries to talk to me, haha I don’t know if they didn’t believe me how awkward it was or what but I saw him at the park and I said “hey guys can we go he is over there” and they just took their sweet ole time haha and so he saw me and came over. It was sooo awkward I don’t even know how to describe it. when he first walked over to us he asked me and then the other girls how we were doing and so he said “como estas” well then a couple minutes later after he asked me why he didn’t see me at church anymore (even though I am there every Sunday) he said “como estado?” Well I knew that it came from the same verb as estas so it had to mean the same thing but why would he ask me the same question in a different way? to me that just seemed weird because I had already told him I was fine so I said “no se” which means “I don’t know”. Haha so finally after an awkward couple of minutes he left and we all just started cracking up because it was so awkward. After he left we asked Zelena (one of the tia’s I work with who was also at the park) if como estas and como estado meant the same thing and she said yes. So pretty much he asked me how I was doing twice the first time I said good and the second time I said I don’t know haha. well to make this situation even more awkward we were at church on Sunday and it was the end of service and me and Elizabeth were walking out and then he came out of nowhere grabbed my hand and pulled me in for a kiss then ran away haha. It took me like 10 seconds to realize what just happened and then I looked at Elizabeth and we just started cracking up. So yeah that story right there wins by far as the most awkward moment ever haha.
The fourth of July was really awesome. I woke up thinking nothing special would really happen considering I am in Mexico but on Sunday we were invited to go to a fourth of July party put on by the directors of the ventana ministry. It started at 7 and we all brought deserts. They had a bunch of couches outside and then set up a projector so we could watch a movie under the stars. It was really cool. And then lucky for us it was Election Day for Mexico so we got fireworks too. It was a pretty awesome Fourth of July if I do say so myself.
So either mexico hates me or I just have the worst immune system ever because I am pretty sure I have been sick here more than I have been well. Monday started my day off and I woke up with a terrible stomach ache. I then went through the rest of the day with an icky feeling and my skin feeling sensitive to everything. I thought maybe I needed to get out and do something active so after Melissa got off work we went on a bike ride and when I got back I felt worse than before. It turns out I think I got the flu because I was absolutely freezing and I had like 3 blankets on me and Melissa was in shorts and a t shirt. I ended up not going to VBS because I felt too weak and sick to go. Thank goodness for Elizabeth and Melissa they are so awesome and did all of it by themselves. So I went to bed at like 8 but did not sleep a full two hours and I was constantly getting sick. So yeah not the funnest two days off ever but as long as I am ok by tomorrow I will be happy because Melissa, Elizabeth and I are going to Ensenada tomorrow woot woot … I will be better for that!
So yeah I just got the saddest news ever … Phil and Alison are stepping down from being the Mexican directors of Niño’s de Baja. They will be leaving in December eeekkkk that is way too soon :( and sooo sad so just pray for this mission that they can get 2 more amazing directors just like Phil and Alison … they for sure have some big
shoes to fill.
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