I forgot last night to mention our Pico Pollo experience... Ever since we started traveling out of the city Scott has wanted to stop at one of the hundred Pico Pollo places to buy a chicken because they had places like this in Peru when he was on his mission. We never have stopped but last night when we saw one that roasted the chickens over a hot coals in plain sight - we stopped. It was so interesting how they had a bellows thing that fanned the flames and made the coals burn hotter. When the chicken was dark, dark, dark brown, almost black, they would pull it off the rod it was on and take something that looked like garden snippers and cut it up the breast bone. Then they cut off the thigh, leg, and wing and stuff everything into a styrofoam container. I was really glad to see there wasn't a head and feet still on the chicken! The chicken was moist and flavorful. Scott loved the extra brown skin! Anyway, we think we may do that again sometime. We managed to find a parking place right in front and still Scott was a little nervous about something happening to the car. The people were very friendly and helpful. Probably felt sorry for us.....As side dishes (which we didn't have) they had gray, peeled bananas; some kind of potato that looked boiled, and their fried plantains. It's just fun to see what they serve!
Today was our usual busy day. When we got out to pick up the kids for church they had not had water and had no clean clothes so they weren't going to Church. So we hurried back to our ward - got lost on the way - in time for a bit of Sacrament Meeting and Sunday School. Then came home for a quick lunch and headed out to San Crystobol. This is such a fun group because they are so anxious to learn! Most of them are adults but there are a few kids. One is a skinny little girl who tells me I am her favorite teacher. Funny, huh! She is taking English classes but hates to talk in English because she thinks she doesn't know anything - wow, do I know how that feels! We lost a keyboard cord somewhere last week so were missing one keyboard but they don't mind doubling up. There is one young man who comes every week and just sits by one of the students and tries to learn because there is not a keyboard for him. We are trying to decide if we could go out to San Crystobol one night during the week and take our trunk full of keyboards so they could practice during the week. The traffic is terrible in the early evening and it is a little dangerous for us to travel at night bit we will see what we can do to help them.
We got carried away at San Crystobal and didn't even look at the time until we had gone over 1/2 an hour. This group just hates to quit practicing - imagine that! So we were late getting to Oriental and seven of our students were sitting out on the front steps waiting to help us carry everything in. They wanted to know if we are going to teach another class after we finish with them - good question....
Around seven we arrived home to carry up all of the music stuff that won't fit in the trunk. Sure was nice to have an elevator for the two days that it worked!
A fun surprise tonight was to see little Samson in his blessing suit. Joe and Hannah are so good to skype so we can see him. Also got an email from Garret about our bull taking 1st place in the Reno sale. That's great!
Today was our usual busy day. When we got out to pick up the kids for church they had not had water and had no clean clothes so they weren't going to Church. So we hurried back to our ward - got lost on the way - in time for a bit of Sacrament Meeting and Sunday School. Then came home for a quick lunch and headed out to San Crystobol. This is such a fun group because they are so anxious to learn! Most of them are adults but there are a few kids. One is a skinny little girl who tells me I am her favorite teacher. Funny, huh! She is taking English classes but hates to talk in English because she thinks she doesn't know anything - wow, do I know how that feels! We lost a keyboard cord somewhere last week so were missing one keyboard but they don't mind doubling up. There is one young man who comes every week and just sits by one of the students and tries to learn because there is not a keyboard for him. We are trying to decide if we could go out to San Crystobol one night during the week and take our trunk full of keyboards so they could practice during the week. The traffic is terrible in the early evening and it is a little dangerous for us to travel at night bit we will see what we can do to help them.
We got carried away at San Crystobal and didn't even look at the time until we had gone over 1/2 an hour. This group just hates to quit practicing - imagine that! So we were late getting to Oriental and seven of our students were sitting out on the front steps waiting to help us carry everything in. They wanted to know if we are going to teach another class after we finish with them - good question....
Around seven we arrived home to carry up all of the music stuff that won't fit in the trunk. Sure was nice to have an elevator for the two days that it worked!
A fun surprise tonight was to see little Samson in his blessing suit. Joe and Hannah are so good to skype so we can see him. Also got an email from Garret about our bull taking 1st place in the Reno sale. That's great!
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