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| 4th and 5th grade love! |
One night, 11 hours in a school with high schoolers, 3 movies, 4 games, Lomito Arabes, lots of sugar, and plenty of caffeine = the once a year blessing of the ACA high school lock-in! This was my first ever Paraguayan lock in and quite an experience! It was a long, but a good night! Most things went similar to a usual US lock-in. The students showed up at 8:00pm ish (we are on Paraguayan time : ) and were picked up at 7:00am ish… okay the last one left at 7:45 am. The night consisted of eating Lomito Arabes (tasty wrap like gyros), group games (shuffle your buns, gestures, eat the color Rockets (a cheap version of M&Ms), etc.), movies, Xbox, chatting, some sleeping... and lots of laughing! Still there were some differences. For instance I helped to supervise a Korean Cookout on a little gas stove top, that produced some tasty little snacks in true Korean style (Yum!). Altogether the students really enjoyed it and found it to be a wonderful time to grow closer and have some great memories.
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| Two of my crazy haired girls chilling at Recess |
While I was able to catch up on a little bit of the sleep I needed from the lock-in, it then turned to a full Sunday, including my first Paraguayan Baptism! After our regular church service, a congregation (piling into the few cars, and the rest onto buses) went to some good friends home, the Macy’s. There in their back yard pool, we joined together to celebrate in a momentous step in the lives of four children from our church. Two of the children were the Macy girls, whom I have certainly gotten to know better and better from our time together, sewing lessons, and my overnight house sitting with them. It was definitely a blessing to be there for this step in their walk with the Lord. The other two were Paraguayan brothers, whose littlest brother, Josecito, is my close companion and friend wherever I go at church. It has been wonderful drawing closer and closer to this church the more I get to spend with them. While I have been blessed to serve, I have also been blessed by the relationships from the church as well.
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| CRAZY HAIR DAY!!!! |
Then Monday occurred... Happy Spirit Week! This week has already been filling up with crazy hairdos, sleepy pajamas, and fun times together. I have always loved watching how spirit week and other events like this truly help classes and students draw together. Each day has a theme that the students dress-up to participate in. Monday – Crazy Hair Day, Tuesday – Pajama Day, Wednesday – Grandma/Grandpa Day, Thursday – Character Day, and finally Friday Field Day. Field day is an all day event were the students are placed on teams and compete in different event to win points for their team! As I have already gotten carried away sharing other things with you this week, I will only give up a few little appetizers of some pictures to leave you on the edge of your seats for next week!
Prayer Requests:
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- Please pray for Paraguay right now and the spread of Dengue. This is a disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes (like Malaria), but has no preventative measure except to try not to get bit. Over 13,000 people have been officially infected and 18 have already died this year. The school is taking every precaution possible with fumigations, daily empting of trash, etc, yet mosquitoes often have a mind of their own.
- Please pray for the physical strength to make it through this week as it is filled with high energy fun and busy schedules.
Firsts:
- First Paraguayan Lock –in! And my first time supervising a Korean cookout during a lock-in!
- First baptism in Paraguay
- First trip to the bus terminal with the intent to buy tickets for our Easter Vacation. Unfortunately we did not realize that you actually need every travelers papers to buy a bus ticket with a destination still in PARAGUAY!!!! Yet this is how it is.
- First Spirit Week!
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