Good news, Bad news

These last two weeks have been up and down. I have gone from being excited to see a good firend (Nick) to crying my eyes out for a few hours over huge miscomunications. I don´t know how much I´ll share on here but it´s been interesting to say the least!

Good news:
Last week I started house visits. I really enjoyed it. As I walked along the highway to meet the woman I´d be accompaning, my guide and I spied two blue hearts on the road. You see, there are a lot of people who get killed walking on the roadways here and the blue hearts are like the little crosses you`d see in the U.S. Pedestrians don´t have the right of way here, but there aren´t many safe places for them to walk and the drivers are just plain awful! Any ways, so as we crossed over the hearts, and I´m not over exagerating, a huge simi-truck wizzed passed with in a few inches of us!!! But I´m glad to report I´m not a blue heart and we continued on to the houses. Some of the houses I vistited were really dark and dank, similar to what you would think a dungon would look like. Often the only piece of furnature was the bed which we sat on to do the Bible study and play with the kid or kids. Some where nicer but for the most part where all made up of sement. Because I don´t speak English I just played with the kids so the moms could do the Bible study. It was a nice break from teaching English and I acctually felt like I was doing something useful (instead of spending an hour at a time stuggling with kids to get them to sit down and listen). I came home smelling like mold and who knows what else, I can´t imagin having to live like that. Really makes you check yourself and appricate what you have.

Bad news:
Not to scare anyone but a teacher at the school got hit by a car this week on his way to work, luckily he servived. I had trouble understanding the exactly what happend but I know he was hopitalized and is either at home or in jail (it´s illigal here to cross the street if there is a bridge, so aparently the driver that hit him is pressing charges). Also there has been a lot of miscomunication from a lot of ends and has caused me some major and needless grief. Then there are other situations that are completely out of my hands and out of control which are hard to stand by and watch. That´s all I can say but it´s for sure not good.

Good news:
God´s still in heaven. Also, I might be figuring out a better schedule so I can a least have a couple days off a month (because my "day off" is only a half day and I´m mostlikely going to have Spanish class for a few hours that day). And hopefully I will get to go to a church and possibly have a Bible study with the Extreme Response (ER) people. I got to visit centeral Quito yesterday with a few of the girls from ER. I had a blast! A rude lady wouldn´t let us see the basillica towers that we paid for, even though we had 10 mins to climb up. So we went down and snuck back up another way... I´ve never ran up so many flights of stairs in my life! She tried chasing us, but gave up being older and well... fat. We made it to the top at the exact moment the bell chimed!!! It was beautiful! We took our vitcory picture and climbed down. You should have seen her face! When then looked at some other cathidrils and went to the Rotunda (spelling?) street in Quito, which is beautiful at night, so quaint it could almost be out of a movie. I got to see the middle of the world with Nick which was pretty cool (I´ll try to put pictures on FB, I´m not really sure how to post them on here). And I took a nap today after an emotionally haggerign week, thank God for naps and being able to stay at the very quiet ER building one night a week!

Bad news:
Just found out that you shouldn´t put any comerical value on things that are sent to me because I´ll have to pay huge fines to get it. And worst of all... I´m writing with a Spanish keyboard and the spell check isn´t working, so this post is probably not going to be readable!