Chile Day 17: DTS or EDE

I just want to let all of my family and readers know that I will not be able to keep up my daily post. There is a program here called EDE (DTS). I was thinking, praying and talking to people. I feel that it is a good use of my time to take this class. This class is an all day 5 day a week class and a little on weekends. I moved from where I was staying to a smaller house that I share with 2 Chileans, 1 Peruvian, 1 Ecuadorian, 1 Brazilian and me. They all speak Spanish and the Brazilian speaks Portuguese also. I am the only one who speaks English. It is a little bit difficult to communicate with them in Spanish but I am learning faster than ever now. I like this discipleship class so far. It is a nice class. There is someone in it who also speaks English so she translates a little for me. 

Chile Day 15: Curcus and Grandfather

Today was Sunday so we went to a different church where the family from New Zealand was going to give the talk at. He did a great job at the talk. The church was all Spanish speaking so there was a translator. That evening we had lasagna with the visiting family. Afterwards, us and one Chilean went to the nearby Chinese Circus. It was about average. I heard this afternoon/evening that my grandfather had went in earlier in the morning for emergency gall bladder surgery. This is life threatening to him because he is 85 and has had serious abominable surgery before. Please keep him in your prayers.

Chile Day 14: Two weeks

Well This is the mark of being here in Chile for 2 weeks. We had 2 visitors from New Zealand drop by for dinner today. We also went toe the Lider to go and shop for some food for today. I am posting this a day later because I was getting a movie ready to watch with everyone and we lost power. We were not the only ones who lost power. 10 million people lost power in Chile. More than 2/3 of the country was in a blackout. The electricity came back up about 3 hrs later during our movie. But it left us without Internet or Water until the morning.

Chile Day 13

Today I worked setting up some rooms for a conference thing. In the afternoon I cleaned some rooms. That evening I went to a going away/birthday party. We had some great tacos and some good drinks and cake. Late that night we had another party. We had dancing and karaoke. I love to dance the Salsa. They had me sing a Brittany Spears song in English and the theme song to Titanic in Spanish. I did better in Spanish. Then we went back to dancing till 2 Sat morning. It was a late night.