My First Dias

Buenas dias!

Please don´t be deceived by my use of Spanish, as that is still pretty much all I know. Luckily though I`ll be starting language school on Monday, so I should start learning a lot more quite soon. Right now I am staying with Tyson and Carolina, the missionary couple that live down here and are helping to coordinate everything for me, and on Friday I will be moving in to the house of my host family.

After more than 24 hours of flying and sitting in airports, which wasn´t as bad as I expected (although I also don´t have anything very exciting to tell you about it either), I arrived here in Cochabamba at 7:30ish this morning. Tyson picked me up at the airport, and we came back to his place. After some breakfast, he showed me up to my room for the week, where I proceeded to sleep until lunch. For lunch we had these really good pastry things. I can´t remember what they´re called, but they were really good, and I ate three of them, which was enough to make me good and full. Basically it´s a pastry that´s kinda the shape of a largish oval dinner roll (very much like a pastie for those of you who know what that is), and inside there´s potato, spices, a few other veggies, a small egg, and there was chicken in the ones I ate (Tyson and Carolina are vegetarians, so theirs didn´t). They very good, and also quite juicy. This meant that although I tried to eat them with my hands at first, I had to give up and use a spoon.

After lunch, I went for a little walk around with Tyson, and we swung by the girls home that his organization runs. There were only 3 of 21 girls there though, as the rest were in school for the afternoon, and one of the three was sleeping. The other 2 were very cute, but of course I didn´t understand what they were saying. When we got back to the house, I played in the yard with Nehemiah and Soriya, their two oldest kids, for the rest of the afternoon. While I´m okay breathing normally, I find that when I start to need to breath harder (like when I am chasing kids around), it is harder to breathe because of the altitude. Although it´s certainly better than La Paz, which is even higher up and where I was panting just from walking pretty much. For dinner, we had vegetarian curry and salad, both of which were quite good. The highlight was hearing Nehemiah ask for seconds and then thirds of salad! I couldn´t believe my ears, a kid WANTING more salad! It was very impressive. For desert we had fresh pineapple, which was white instead of yellow. It´s less sweet than yellow pineapple, which made it a little more refreshing. I think I am definitely going to like all the fresh fruit down here!

The kids are now in bed, and I think I may be shortly as well. I just wanted to say a very big THANK YOU to everyone who has supported me in this, either financially or with encouragements, or the countless people who have said they will be praying for me. Thank you very much.

Buenas noches!

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Dave