No big deal but...

A lot of things to blog about, so little time to blog!  I am leaving for a few days to go to the Ruano´s cousin´s house, about an hour away from here.  Probably won´t be on the computer until then, so let me do a brief highlight on what´s happened this week. 

Concert
I was in my second Chochy concert this Saturday!  The church we had it at was a lot smaller and wasn´t new looking like the church we had last time.  It was super hot inside because it wasn´t opened up like most buildings are here.  There was only enough room for the kids to sit or stand- the concert took up half the room!  I was the heart again- ``El Amor``.  I was so excited because this time, I took my time speaking my lines and I didn´t mess up!  Also, I was expecting to hear my voice over the speakers, so it didn´t scare me like last time.  

In good and in the bad
I had a couple bad days- just being really homesick and being tired of being here, but I hear that is normal...
I am doing sooo much better now.  Thanks to first, Bible and prayer time that God blessed me with and second, tons of encouraging emails that came all at the right time. It is so exciting to open my email and have so many to read! Lots of wise words were spoken to me the past few days- even Bryan told me ``Don´t be sad, enjoy your time here, because when you are in the States, you are going to be sad and wish you could be here.`` At the time, I didn´t want to hear that, but I knew it was true.  ``I love English so much!  The US is awesome!``  A little mini-bout of cultural withdrawal.  :) 

Amusement park
So I went to a Guatemalan amusement park!  Usually I am not scared on amusement park rides, but I wasn´t really sure about how safe they were, at first, so the first ride I was actually scared.  Scared for my life!  But nobody else seemed concerned, and they always checked seat belts before the ride, so I just trusted that God would protect me and stopped worrying.  There was a ride really similar to the log ride at King´s Dominion, and then there was a drop tower and a roller coaster.  It was a pretty small park, and there weren´t too many people, so we went on some rides like five times!  It was awesome.  There was this big group of gringos and so the group I was in was teasing me about asking them where they were from.  But then I heard them speaking, and it wasn´t English.  Somewhere in Europe, I knew. 
``Hey, maybe they are the Vienna Boys Choir!`` I joked, since I knew that they had come to Guatemala recently for a concert.  ``Yeah, maybe it is!`` the kids in my group said.  They were all getting excited about it and telling their moms that Rachel said maybe it was the choir, and I felt bad, like I had lied to them because really I had no idea.  But then, we had finished playing bumper cars and I asked one of the European kids where he was from, hoping he understood English.  ``Vienna, in Europe.``
``Like, from the choir?``
``Yes,`` he answered.
Whoa! I was like ``Guys!  It IS the choir!``
Later, there was another group from the choir and the girls in my group had me ask them in English for a photo- the funny thing was that the kid I talked to knew more Spanish then English, so I ended up speaking Spanish to him instead.
Yeah, so no big deal, but I spoke Spanish and played bumper cars with part of the Vienna Boys Choir.