Time for a play-by-play of week two! I would have loved to do this for week one, but it was just too busy.

It was really quiet without the group from Pennsylvania here. Sunday we went to a neat little church in Leon, ate at a chicken place called Tip-Top for lunch, and did a lot of re-organizing of supplies and donated materials. Monday I rode with Melissa to distribute food to the feeding programs and pick up/deliver other things in the morning. Most of the evening they spent packing.

Tuesday we went to Leon so Seth and Sage could pick up some souvenirs for their friends, and to get medicine for a man in Salinas. On the way back we stopped at his house to give it to him, and Melissa freaked out over it to the point that I was laughing- it was an injection, and she was the one to give it. Last week the doc said explained that there was no way to mess it up since the injection site was the stomach and not a vein. Me and Seth played soccer with some of the guys in the neighborhood for a while, before he and his friend Gato went surfing. That night Eric drove the rest of the family to a hotel, and they left the next morning for the States. I stayed back so I could enjoy some quiet time to myself (I’ve been known to disappear for a few hours at home to get some mental breathing room), and I munched on some snacks while I read more out of the Bible and Forgotten God.

Starting Wednesday, it was just me and Eric staying at the house. We went to Leon in the morning to check up on the psychology team (a Christian team) that was staying at a hotel there, and I went with them to a couple different schools while they did a couple different lectures and discussions. I actually met a member of their team during the first week when we were in Leon, and I pretended I didn’t speak any English for the first few minutes of the conversation. I wouldn’t have done it if she didn’t look like and good sport, and we both had a laugh afterwards. Anyway, there was one sweet lady there that I met named Laverne. I think she was a team leader, and I did some minor tranlating for her when we were at a school. During our lunch break, she asked me to go with her to the bank to get some money out of the ATM. So, we had a little adventure that consisted of finding the bank, finding out her card declined, going to an internet cafe to make a call to her credit card company, then going back to the bank to find out that her card declined again. Later that night she discovered we were actually just selecting the wrong option on the ATM haha. But on that little adventure I picked up some amazing sweet bread from a bakery we saw coming back =)

Thursday I woke up around 5:00 (just half an hour earlier than normal) to go with one of the teams in the psych group to a maximum security prison in Chinandega, a city almost two hours north of Leon. So, once we got there and waited for at least an hour in the street (where it HAD to be at least 100 degrees), they told us that we couldn’t come in because of a stabbing that had occured the night before. But. We were able to go to the city’s court house, where there just happened to be five teenagers that were tangled up in some legal issue or another that needed counselling, and it just happened that the judge was sitting in her chamber about to go see these kids. And it just so happened that a lady that was with us knew the judge well enough that the judge let us in on her good word, without knowing who we were or what we were doing there five minutes beforehand. In case you don’t catch my sarcasm, God just happened to be guiding us that day. That night me, Eric, and his friend Anry went to stay at Eric’s other house in Granada so they could do some business there.

Friday. I kill some time in an internet cafe and walk around on the square while Anry and Eric check out different hotels and accomodations for a team coming in September. I got to talk with a few guys in the square about Christianity and give them some Spanish New Testaments. I went to a bank and got some money out of the ATM (the right way this time) since I had all of $3 in my pocket. The rest of the day consisted of riding around with Eric and Anry while they looked around and made reservations at various places for that team, and because of that I saw basically the entire country! I kinda wish we could have spent more time in certain places, but I’m not here to be a tourist. We had macaroni and tacos for dinner when we got back to Salinas.

So, finally it is Saturday.  This morning we went to Leon to do various errands, the biggest of which was to get groceries for the new team. We bought about half my weight in meat, at least the same in vegetables, and had to use two full carts to get everything. When we got back there were a few household tasks for me to do. I’m now sitting alone at the house, like on Tuesday night, while Eric goes and gets the next team (of optometrists). Since they’re pushed for space in the vehicles, it was actually necessary that I stay behind this time; don’t think I’m a total recluse. They will be here in a couple of hours, then we’ll have dinner and I’ll get to meet some new people! The final week is about to begin!