Living the Village Life

Well the main highlight of this last week for me was staying the night in the Rio Esteban Village with Bictelia (principal of the Bilingual School) and her family. Brogan and I went over to her house after teaching English at the Bilingual school for anyone who wanted to come (like we had been doing all week). We walked to the beach and visited a few family members, saw a few newborn babies..but really we just hung out in the hammocks and spoke English and Spanish. Most of my conversations are Spanglish because they don't know enough English to carry on conversations and I don't know enough Spanish. So I use what Spanish I can and mainly hand motions and physical actions, but the Lord has been gracious in allowing me to communicate pretty well. We went to a house church with Delmi (Bictelia's 20 year old daughter, who is also a teacher at the school) and then ate dinner. It was pretty relaxed, we have chocolate milk drinks, and some local food that was really good. It was like a croissant role filled with meat and rice :) Then shortly after we went to bed. It was a late dinner and people here are early risers...so people go to bed around 9 pm. It's great :)
The next morning I wake up at 5 am to the sound of sharpening knives. I only know it was that sound because my Dad would always sharpen my Mom's kitchen knives so I woke up and was a little alarmed. I went back to sleep and woke up again at 6:30, I decided to get up and grabbed my toothbrush and toothpaste to go brush outside. When I get outside I realize over half of the village is surrounded the hut that was containing hammocks but was now holding three large portions of Cow Meat. The Hammock Hut had converted into a Butcher's Distribution Hut overnight.
Another exciting thing happened today! This afternoon we interns were invited to join some MKs (Missionary Kids) on a trip to a Waterfall in Rio Coco! It was absolutely beautiful!! It was such a fun trip. We jumped off of rocks, did tricks, swam in the fresh water and when I looked up, all I could see was Jungle... it was absolutely breathtaking.
Another week well spent!