Hey all, really sorry about not keeping up on this like i thought i was going to... turns out taking ten to 15 minutes out of my day to keep this up has been a little tuffer than what i planned on, but i know a lot of people back home really like reading my little tail of life in Sevilla so i will try my best to keep it up! I know i have said that but as you will read i have been getting a wee bit more organized since time seems to be getting shorter and shorter and the list of things i have to do/ or can do seems to be getting longer and longer. What im sayin is that im seeing the importance and practice of being disciplined!
YUMMY YUMMY IN MY DIABETIC TUMMY
Alrightee.... well the first cool thing to happen after Nov. 2, which was my last blog was that we had an awesome trip to a real life cookie factory in Estepa which is like a hour and a half from Sevilla! It was fantastic, one of the professors at UPO (Univeristy of Pablo De Olavide) grew up in Estepa working at his family cookie factory and every year he takes a bunch of students to go see it! When we finally got to the town like little village the first thing you smelt was cookies! Then once you got inside your mouth just watered and brought me back to the US sitting in front of my Aunt Karens TV set in Cheyenne watching "How its Made" It really was just like in the movies and tv....each person had their own little job and everyone had been working there for like EVER and seemed everyone was connected to the family some how! They were all happy chubby little people who looked like they enjoyed doin what they were doin! And it was really sweet how the professor just came in like he owned the place then gave his mom and pop two big kisses! The professors name was Enrique and he is an animated character like someone you would watch on tv or read in the sunday comics (just a real neat fella) he loved to agree with you and bob his whole top half back and forth in agreeance with pretty much all that ya said. Hahaha really a relaxed easy goin sort of a chum=) So that was an exciting weekend and got to have some meaningful convos with some new people and met a really awesome new christian who is going to try to come to our bible study!
WORK WORK WORK
For about the next week all i that i can see is work. Did a bunch of school work and little play. But on the other hand we had a great Bible study as always! Been havin those every Tuesday at 4:56 at the Starbucks in the middle of town at a place called Puerta de Jerez which literally means "Gate from the city" and it is where we meet till about 5:15 or so then we go sit on the lawn for some good Jesus talk! Man do we ever have some good Jesus talks... God has totally blessed our times together ever since our first one the 22 of Sep. Every week someone different leads it and i have lead it twice now. God has really blessed us with new kids just about every week now and is a great place for people who are here studying abroad to come and stay in fellowship with other believers and get a little Jesus for the week=)
MOVIN AND A GROOVIN SPANISH STYLE
Hahaha what a time. My best friend named Abraham over here is one of the best Salsa dancers that i have ever seen... period! He can keep time (something i can not do) and has more new moves that i am trying to learn to bring home! But anyway i really wanted to bring Martha out with us so we had a night where she could come out and a bunch of other people could to so it was... Martha, Abraham, Inma, Fatima & Sierra from bible study, Carmen from Connexxion and me. We all ended up at this fancy little place right next to Puerta de Jerez that had a live band that night. It was like 6 euros to get in but we had looked for awhile so we decided we would pay and go in! The place was lively and everyone inside was a quicksteppin to the funky Spanish music. The inside was white and was styled to put you back in like a royal dance parlor... pretty legit gonna have to say! But as we got in i realized that once again Jake has no style when it comes to this salsa dancin... I mean i can only handle about two beats then after that i get real lost real quick! To visualize what i was feelin... i felt like a three legged dog on a windy frozen lake tryin to catch a wet fish! Thats about what i looked like too.... AND THEN other people were askin me to show them how to dance and i was like YEAH RIGHT do you see what i look like! Cant imagine anyone wanted to learn how to look like i looked!=) Anyway, we had a good night and some big spanish dude kept hitting on Martha and so i had to lay down the law on that dude in my awesome spanish with Inmas help! hahaha it was good though he didnt mess with her agian=0) We all had a blast and everyone hit home at about 4 in the morning... so we had a full day!
CARMONA
This is the next school trip we took. It was for my Spanish Art class and it was a pretty good time... really short though. We left at 930 in the morning and we were back at about 230 that day so it was short! But we learned how people in roman times were burried and how the size of the burial chamber signified how rich and awesome they were! Kinda weird if ya ask me but i wasnt diggin the graves! They always were cremated and put in a little 1 foot by 1 foot box of some sort... then they would have their whole family dead around them too. Learned some neat stuff and got a free trip to a semi sweet place=)
Connexxion Retreat
Got back from Carmona then that same day got packed for the trip to Cazella which is also about an hour and half away from Sevilla. People who went on the trip. Martha, Abraham, Carlos (friend of Marthas from Connexxion) same as Danny, and Leah... then the two American interns named Megan and Andrea and then Ruben and Sylvia were the speakers and worship leaders. Sylvia is song artist and man is she good! We hiked for like 10 miles total the one day or a little less and we got to see a water fall and a old school farmer guy with a small heard of goats and like 5 dogs... just a simple lookin guy livin his dream... and of course I HAD to get a picture with him=)! We had some awesome talks about Jesus and why people suffer at the place where we stayed, which was a camp like setting in the hills NOT MOUNTAINS of Cazella. This place was like no other though!!! Honestly i can say that it was legitly like going back in time! People doin their own thing, killin chickens makin cheese from goats milk just livin it! Can say that it was one of my favoritest spots=) Had some really fun times doin some walk beat boxing and had some really good talks with Andrea the intern from America and had a lot of laughs and i like laughs so i had a blast of a weekend!
Dinner with Teddy
So this past Saturday i was studying a ton for my spanish exam on this thursday and got a ring from my buddy Teddy... his real name is Jonny but i call him Teddy because he has huge paws and long hair and is HUGE plus he is like the nicest guy you would ever meet so Teddy just fits him really well. Along those lines he said he would call me bear so that we could combine and make a powerful fusion of TEDDY BEAR! Its a good fusion i think! so anyway got a call from him and so went over to his bach pad and got ready for a little dinner with the family! His sister and brother in law came over and their two cute little kids... the youngest of which has bright blue eyes and golden brown hair yet has two parents, both who have dark brown eyes with almost black-brown hair... such a rare cute little spanish kid! But we all had dinner along with his room mate Holiday! Was a great time speakin some spanish and getting to have some legit time with my buddy Teddy!=)
Dinner at Marthas- then the Flu
All day Sunday i spent with Martha going to church and helping her out. After church got out we went back to Marthas place and prepped some soup for lunch. Little potato cream goodness! Loved it and was really simple to make... then took a 3 hour nap cause i was feelin a little tired then had Abe over after i got done moppin the house down for Martha. Had some more soup then two big cups of coffee that was chocolate flavored... wow AMAZING! We then had a bible study and answered some questions like "Was Jesus a good looking man... which is no he was not look it up in Isaiah 53:2.... and other stuff that was random but on our hearts. Then came the fun stuff! Got home at about 130 and could not sleep... so listened to some podcast of a awesome guy named Ben Stuart then finally fell asleep at 5am..woke up at 10 feeling like some one had thrown me off a cliff then made me drink snakes for breakfast. Basically felt like everything on my inside wanted to be on the outside... so had a trip with the runs, vomiting and fever and went back to bed at about 12 when the Imodium kicked in! then woke up at 5 that night tried to do stuff for like 3 hours then fell asleep at 8 and got up the next day at 8:41am feeling like a million bucks WHICH IS NOW TODAY! So am much better now and getting some stuff done for school so i am feelin pretty rad=) AND FINALLY GOT UP TO DATE ON MY BLOG!!!!!!!! WHAAAAAWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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