Angelina's Life in Motion

Hello everyone! I can't believe it's almost been a week so I late updated this blog. I guess it's been busy. Well, I've had a great week. Last Friday the teachers had a get together at a couple's home. We played games. It's interesting because I have brothers in my class whose father is the music teacher, so they were there also. I remember was I was younger, it was hard to imagine that my teachers had fun on the weekend. So, my students got to hear my first name and watch me play Guesstures with everyone else. We really enjoyed it. Something I've had to do here in Mexico is cook for myself a lot. My housemate and I usually take turns cooking dinner. ( If you know me well you'd probably feel sorry for her when it's my turn to cook.) But, things have gone well. I actually enjoy it. Mom, you would be proud! I'm also learning new things from her. My roommate and I have gone on two walks now around our neighborhood. We don't take a map- we just start going. She's glad I'm with her because I'm pretty good at finding our way home. See, we don't go to a place and take the same way home- that's no fun, so we just wing it and hope we end up on one of the 3 streets we know here in Puebla. SO far, it's worked! About our walks- well, the changes within homes can be so drastic. I've walked past homes that have no glass on the windows and seem to be without electricity. The streets are usually paved and lined with palm trees, which is really cool. However, on our walks we have come across dirt roads in the city limits. It's very interesting. We enjoy walking around. Some time we are going to take the Ruta and go up town. The Ruta is a bus. One thing that was a little frustrating this week is that we ran out of water this week in the apartment. Here in Mexico the plumbing is different and for some reason you have to turn on a pump to take water to the roof and if you don't then you have no water for about a 1/2 hour. This is about the 4th time that we've run out since we got here. It really isn't too bad, unless you are in the shower, which I was and nothing would come out. But, that's about the most inconvienced I'm been and that's not bad at all! Something interesting happened today in class. I pulled down the world map, and it rolled back up and the whole thing fell down. Thankfully no one was hurt! (ANd I thought that only happened on TV!) Well, finally, I'll just say that God has been so good to me. I am so in awe of how he brought me here. Six months ago I was at college wondering what I was going to do, trying to get a job in Indiana and the next thing I know. My encouragement and challenge to you is that there is no better place to be than in the middle of God's will for you, walking with him, side by side! God is an awesome God!!