ADVENTURE!

Father, I thank You so much for all that You had done over the past few months here in Arequipa. I am breathless. You are so awesome!! Jesus, I thank and praise You for mi familia here in Arequipa, for the wonderful Calvin group, for the friends that I have made at the university. It is so humbling to me that You have put all of these people in my life. Father, I pray that You would bless these people. Soak Tita and Vicente and Andrea and Kike in Your love. Bless them, Lord.  And God, in the time that I have left here in Arequipa, I pray that You would be exalted! I give You every moment, Jesus. Do with these days whatever You want. God, I know that Your ways are higher than mine and that You are able to do immeasurably more than all that I can every think or imagine. So, I surrender these days to You and I invite You to do whatever You want with them, Jesus. Everyday with You is an adventure, Jesus. Help me to embrace this adventure and keep my eyes open to see what You are doing and how I can join You!

In the past two days, I have:

1. eaten imitation Hostess cupcakes.

2. gone running twice at the Club Internacional. (You see, there are these big volcanos here in Arequipa, and for the past two months, they have been screaming at us to climb them. We are hoping to try to climb a volcano in November. But we have also been told that it is very difficult and that it needs to be taken seriously, so I'm trying to condition myself a bit.)

This is for Ben: "See that mountain over there? One of these days... I'm gonna CLIMB that mountain..."

3. observed math classes at Colegio Claretiano.

4. taught a lesson to Amy's little brother and sister about conservation of quantity for my Didactica de las Matematicas class.

5. learned about slope and equations of lines in Algebra Lineal y Geometria Analitica. (This is something that I learned initially in eighth grade and then reviewed almost every year of high school. However, it seemed to me that these concepts were new to my Peruvian classmates. I'm learning that the math curriculum is not the same in different countries. There are different focuses. In the States, slope and equations of lines recieves a lot of attention, but it appears that this topic is not as important before college here in Peru.)

6. gone to Bible Study with some of my Calvin friends.

And now, I'm going to go to bed and continue this adventure tomorrow.