Candy

Something I failed to mention about our shopping trip that made me laugh was while we were checking out if the teller doesn't have the right amount of change they give you candy or sometimes a bandaid I hear. But we were given two pieces of candy in lou of change. They said at the pharmacies they give you an aspirin or tylenol if they don't have the correct change.

On Wednesday we went downtown to learn about how our finances work and how we do expense reports. We ate something really good but I always forget the name. It's like a pizza pocket with chicken, potatoes, peas, corn and gravy all inside. They eat them for breakfast and everyone here loves them. We took our first taxi home from the office and wow was that a ride. The taxis are very cheap but driving in them makes your life flash before your eyes on several occasions. We made lunch for ourselves in our little kitchen and then Grant and I went to work on my classroom.

On Wednesday night WGM always has prayer meeting for all their missionaries. This week they had a huge churrasco (BBQ) to welcome us and to say goodbye to another missionary. It was a lot of fun. The food was great--they grilled huge steaks and fried yuca and had mennonite cheese rice. We had some of this rice at Los Lomitos and we didn't like it very much but at Rick's it was amazing. It's kind of a wet rice with squeaky cheese in it. A lot of the missionaries are in the states right now before school so the group was a little bit smaller than normal but their was still about 40 people.

Everynight when we return home there are geckos on our enclosed from porch so I make Grant go first and scare them away and then I can walk in the house. It gets dark about 6:30 pm here and they said in the summer (winter in states) it only gets dark about 7 pm.