A little Break

So, the weekend was nice because we got to have a little time off. The weather was nice, so I was able get outside and play a little soccer and some volleyball. Saturday night we had a little night on the town with some of the kids. We went out to the pub and it was a rather interesting experience. It is interesting to see a bunch of to-be missioners interacting in that kind of a setting. But all in all it was good bonding time. Then on Sunday we had most of the day off, so I took care of some laundry and the basics. Sunday afternoon we had a BBQ and a concert was performed by these Peruvians, who were actually pretty talented. There were a couple of Peruvian kids there, who were cooler than anything. We went around catching fireflies and then squishing them on the wall, to write thing in glow in the dark bug juice. The food was good and the overall ambiance was really cool. It is funny to see how people interacted with (for some this was their first) intercultural experience. Then on Monday, we were back to school; we had some guy with a Ph. D come in and talked to us about cross-cultural interactions. Having already lived in France, a lot of this seemed to be old news, but he, out of the presenters, did the best job of keeping the groups engaged. We did some skit thing by splitting the group in half and making up societies and then making them interact in a controlled setting, allowing for everyone to feel and understand what it is like to be in a new and foreign culture. Then we finished up the day with a couple of pretty vicious games of spoons which of course lead to bloodshed, three missing spoons, a destroyed deck of cards and a table that doesn’t work as well as it did.