Day 26

Monday

So on Monday morning those of us who had the pleasure of staying up late working on Gospel Clown, got up to go perform. We had big colorful clothing and makeup... the works! So we showed up at the Kinder school (a school for 1-6 year olds) and set everything up. In the beginning we had to come out and dance around and act like clowns, of course. We did cartwheels and it was hilariously fun. Then we performed for the kids and they absolutely loved it! It was all about getting to heaven, and there is quite a bit of slapstick comedy thrown in. They try to use a mattress, a ladder, and Superman's cape to get them to heaven... each of those failing of course. Then there was the Bible clown (me) who came in trying to explain what the Bible says. One of the clowns chases me out each time, until at the end, the others convince him to listen to me. Then we finish and Iris did a gospel presentation for the kids.

They were so cute to watch as she explained to them with a wordless book... with different colors, each representing something like sin, Jesus' blood, our hearts washed white as snow, and growth. My favorite response that day, was when Iris told them that in order to grow in Christ, we should read our Bibles and pray every day. A little boy raised his hand and said "But sometimes we forget." It was so precious! I just loved his honesty! That totally made my day.

After we finished, the teachers thanked us all, gave us sandwiches and lemonade (which was delightful since it was rather warm) and we waited for Don Manuel to come pick us up. After we finished, we all agreed that it was so much fun and we wanted to do it again on Tuesday, before the girls left. Iris said she would look into a couple of opportunities for us.

That afternoon, we played Wallyball again. We wanted to go out to dinner at this really great steak place and so we road the trufi there and were devastatingly disappointed to find that it is not open on Mondays. Unfortunately, many things are closed on Mondays. We learned that it's kind of a "hangover day" from the weekend. Soooo, the group split up and a few went to another steak place and the rest of us had Chinese. I know right? Chinese in Bolivia! We ate it all family style and had the reserved room because there were like 10 of us, and we had a lazy susan on our table. Oh! Funny story about that. So, we got this fried wontons and there was 1 left after everyone had one. So Steve & Matt thought it would be a good idea to spin the lazy Susan until it stopped and wherever the plate stopped, is who would get it. We took everything else off of it and it seemed to be going well until all of a sudden it hit a bottle and started sliding towards our glasses. We decided to stop it at that point. haha It didn't turn out all bad though... they decided that it first flew towards the bottles in front of me so I got to eat it. haha

Chinese was good in Bolivia (especially sweet & sour pork), but not the best and not really any cheaper. I say go for the local food.