THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM!!!!!

OH MAN!!! I just walked into my bedroom, and it smells AMAZING IN HERE!!!!!!! WOW!!! I think it has something to do with the enormous bag of FRESH FRUIT that I have! But really... wow it smells good. Maybe I'll just always keep a bag of fresh fruit in my bedroom... Anyway, Thanksgiving is Thursday and the Calvin group is having a little feast and I am contributing fruit salad because the fruit in this country is absolutely awesome. Today, Tita came with me to the market to help me buy the fruit, and now it's sitting in my room!! Horray!

I taught this morning at Claretiano! Pythagorean Theorem!!! YEAH!!!!! Profesor Aguilar really keeps me on my toes. The PowerPoint for today did not have answers, so I had to do the problems as the students did them and collect their problems at the same time. But it was fun!!

I'm learning all about ellipses, circles, and parabolas in Algebra Lineal y Geometria Analitica!!! And that's fun, too!!

Also, I should tell you about last night!! Well, first, yesterday afternoon I got to spend a few hours with part of the Calvin group. We just plopped ourselves on the lawn and talked and laughed for a while, and it was time very well spent. After that, I had to meet with Dahil to work on a presentation for Didactica de las Matematicas. But she found out at the last minute that she had to be at work (she's actually already a teacher!) for a meeting. So, I got to go to her school with her!! We hoped in a combi and went somewhere in Arequipa... honestly, I don't really know where we were. But we got there and I worked on our presentation while Dahil was in her meeting, and after the meeting we wrapped things up. Working with her is really fun. She's an English teacher, so we talk in a wonderful mix of Spanish and English.

The most exciting part of the day was definitely the ride home. Dahil told me what combi to get on, and I got on a took a seat. There weren't actually very many people on it. There were empty seats. But by the time I got off the combi about 40 minutes later... oh man, there were VERY many people on that vehicle!! Once all of the seats in a combi fill up, people stand in the aisle. This gets very very cramped, especially when more and more people keep getting on and no one gets off. It is especially complicated when the person in the very back needs to get of the combi. This involves lots of squeezing and pushing. At one point, the lady who was standing right next to my seat was actually sitting in my lap because there was literally no where else to go. Eventually we got to close to my house, so I squeezed my way out of my seat and SOMEHOW made it to the door of the combi. It was kind of an adventure.

God! Ah! I thank You so much for all that You're doing here! I love being here so much! Thank You for my family, for my friends, for every moment, Jesus!