how the time flies

Hello again.

it has been quite a while since my last blog. this was unfortunately due to something needing to be reset or whatever in the office upstairs where none of us had a key.

the last bunch of days have been great though. a couple of my dominican friends that i had met when i was down here for a trip last summer are now here. the two main ones are isaiah (pronounced "ee-sigh-ee-uh) and romanos. the apartment i'm in is right next to a school, and it has a small basketball court in the ouside playground area. it's a very thin court and two on two is about the limit for teams. i think we played first on saturday and it was for about 2 hours i think. it was so much fun. the rules are a little different. you never have to take the ball back, and make it take it. one side of the court is a wall that separates the playground from a side street. there were so many times when the ball ended up on the other side of the wall and we had to wait for a kid in the street to through it back. we also played again on sunday, this time there were a few more guys and we played for more than 3 hours.

well, talking about sunday, i played guitar in church. we had practice on saturday where i met daniel a younger teen who played the drums and Auris (ow-oo-ree) who is incredible at playing the piano. we spent the first part of practice listening to songs on a computer and her figuring out how to play them on the piano, which took a lot less time than i thought possible. yeah, she's good. of course the songs are in spanish so it's hard for me to follow along by listening to the words, espcially since we didn't have them written down. all i did was watch the pinky finger of her left hand to know which chord she was playing and follow along. since i didn't bring my guitar and the one i was borrowing didn't have a strap i had to have one leg up on a chair to rest the guitar on. by the end of the worship part of the service the foot i was standing on was dying. i also didn't have a connection to the sound system so they had a mic set up right in from of the guitar. i'm not sure how i did because there was no monitor for me to hear out of. but it went well and i had a good time.

the pastor, gabriel, who is co-president of G.O. ministries, gave a sermon on not being selfish or not hurting others. it was over david and saul, and i know this because someone told me afterward.

oh, i almost forgot to tell about viviana. she used to work for G.O. but now she's not. she's dominican and engaged to an american, who i think is visiting soon. she's very great. she was a translater and the one to have me come to the worship practice. she sings in worship.

will partin, my missionary, gets here tomorrow. how exciting! we'll have so much fun, and do a lot of work i guess. there is a week that we will be doing a soccer camp in Haiti. and a big basketball one really soon i believe.

today i have just been resting. i came over to the girls' apartment to get on the internet and get stuff to eat. since i'm an intern all of my meals are provided and someone brings them over. rice, chicken, beans, and lettuce. :) it's good. i'm sure i will get quite used to it by the end of the summer.

i love you all, thanks for reading. hopefully next blog i'll have pictures and hopefully it won't take so long for me to post again.