Dig Dig Dig, Soccer Field

TGIF hahahhahahhahahaha, that has no meaning here. The only reason I can recall the date is because I write it in my journal. Even then I must check my last entry. Oh the joys of keeping time in non- north american countries.
Last Sunday was another church day. We ended up on a bus ride to the train station, a train ride to Sao Paulo, and then another long bus ride to the church. It took us about three hours to get there with a few check ins at the local pub to see what was going on in the football (soccer) match. The church was small and welcoming, we got to go up and introduce ourselves and one of our team members gave her testament. The best part was that we had a supper prepared and waiting for us in the back room after.
The reason we have been going to church is not because we are a religious group, it's because the place we are staying at is a Youth With A Mission base... So we get invited, say yes and haven't been let down yet.

This past week has been going by so fast that it's hard to remember what has happened. On Monday, our "free day", some of us went in to Sao Paulo (bus, train, bus) to exchange our money from dollar to real.  We didn't really want to be walking around  night with a bunch of money on us so we just went back to the base after eating a delicious brazillian buffet styled supper. The coconut cake with chocolate was amazing, although I'm not sure of it's true brazillian ethnicity.

This week we have taken the kids down to play soccer twice. The walk there and back is one of my favourites. The kids are nuts. They sing, dance, do cartwheels and flips while passing around a soccer ball the whole way down. Then the same thing happens on the way back up with a few foot races thrown in. Usually in the gym we lead some sort of warm up and a few drills before getting in to a scrimmage. I almost thought our team wasn't going to get to play yesterday before time ran out, I would have been upset.

On Wednesday we started digging up the backyard to put in a soccer field. Since the backyard is on a hill and we have to dig down pretty far. We definitely have our work cut out for us. It took us a day to get a system figured out, but yesterday morning we were going strong and got a good portion of it dug out. We worked all morning and I think it took quite a bit of energy for everyone to make it to soccer. But we did and after dinner the team played an awesome game of telephone pictionary. This is a game where you start off by writing a phrase like "home sweet home" and the next person has to draw it and fold over the writing, the next person has to write what they think the drawing is and the next person has to draw that and so on.. It was hilarious. One girl wrote "Mike Tyson's tiger" and ended up with "lumpy people love cats".
Today we are probably going to dig out the field some more in the morning, go on home visits (sometimes known to include random MJ dance parties) in the afternoon and we have a BBQ scheduled with the kids for this evening. Fun fun fun.
Cheers :)

Annessa Nina