Falta Poco

Time is flying by, and I'm realizing how little time I have left here. I'm leaving on May 11th which is just 2 and a half weeks away! I am excited to get home and be with friends and family, but it is going to be weird leaving here. Today Gregoria asked me when I'm going to come back, and I told her I hope to be able to come next summer. That seems so far away! I've made great friends here and saying goodbye to them until maybe 13 or 14 months from now already feels strange and I'm still a few weeks out from the final goodbye. I'm taking advantage of each day and really appreciating all the little things that have made this experience what it has been.

I thought I'd just post some pictures I have from the last few weeks. Also, here is a link to a video Fr. Tim made of the parish festival on Easter Sunday. I wrote a little about that in my last post. It's the church's "birthday", since it's called Jesucristo Resucitado (Resurrected Christ if cognates aren't your forte), so the first half of the video happy birthday is being sung. A lot of the people who appear in the video are good friends of mine. The dancers in white are coming to Minnesota in September. It's a cool video, check it out! Oh and at about 1:20 starts the usual birthday song here, much more interesting and meaningful than what we sing in the U.S.!

Escuelita in the Casa Hogar

Classic

With some friends on Easter Sunday

Party in the campo! One of the Brito uncles had a huge birthday party out where he lives in the middle of nowhere. 150+ people and a live band, it was great.