La Punete Negro Muerte

Yesterday was Sabbath. So I woke up late because of my alarm clock...but made it to breakfast. Ran back to get ready for church...then went to English Sabbath school. It was awesome to finally understand what the speaker was saying. The night before at Vespers, it was completely in Spanish and we all had a hard time understanding what was going on.

For lunch we went to the caf, and found out that you have to be dismissed by tables. We sat and talked. The food was like ravioli. It was delicious. After stuffing ourselves with food, we found a group that was going on a hike to Puente Negro (black bridge) so we invited ourselves along. Little did we know what we would get ourselves into.

We started out on our hike. We hiked to the puente blanco (white bridge), then started walking through the farmland to this bridge. We tredged our way through forest, and land...we even walked through a field of bamboo. Then we came to the puente negro. To get to the other side, you had to cross this bridge. If you look on some of my pictures in the next post you'll see the bridge. It was quite old and a little sketch. This bridge was way off the ground. Now, I'm afraid of heights as was half our group. So I went and decided to take it really slowly. Most of it was made out of steel, but there were wooden planks that weren't equally put across the bridge. It was terrifying. After about 30 minutes all of us made it across. For some it took a long time to coax them to come across.

Then we hiked our way back to school. In total it was about 6 miles. We hung out until dinner, then we decided to go to the gymnastics show at the nice gym outside of the school. It was interesting there. The younger children did lots of different things including roller skating, it was like ice skating, but on roller skates. We stayed there pretty much all night. It wasn't anything impressive, but I had to keep reminding myself that they weren't pros.

We all have been wanting to go to Parana for the past couple days, but it hasn't quite worked out. So we went today. Sabrina, Ashley, Rosemary, me and the guys decided we were gonna leave early 'cause we thought the bus left at 8:20. so we got up super early...only to figure out that the earliest bus left at 10:30. So we just hung out and waited until then. We bought our tickets. They were about $7 there and back. The town Parana is a little over and hour and a half away from Libertador San Martin where we are. So Sabrina and I sat together, we ended up falling asleep on the bus 'cause we were so tired. We got there and found out that we had purchased our return ticket, but we needed to reserve our seats. So with the help from our friend, Paul who knows more Spanish then the rest of us we figured it out. We had about 16 people in our group. Some wanted to go find the movie theater and the rest of us wanted to go scope the town out.

Our groups divided and we went our separate ways. The group that I was in, navigated our way around the town. We stopped at this buffet for lunch. it was really good. All they had was meat, so it was hard to find some food there, but what I found was good. We walked to this place to find an alarm clock, and it ended up being on the outskirts of town. There I found my pillow, because the one that ACA gave to me wasn't really a pillow and I've been having really bad back and neck pain when I wake up. It was only $5. (ps. I'm converting all the money, which is in pesos to dollars so you get it )

We walked back to the square or the center, which was in the middle of the town and took a bunch of pictures. I've been hanging out a lot with the people in the group picture and they're becoming good friends of mine. We walked back to the bus with a couple stops in between and made it back to the school.

I'm starting to get a cold just because the weather is so different here. I'm gonna try to stay away from sweets and just drink a ton of water to flush it out of my system. The next post I'll put all the pictures I have so far.

School starts tomorrow. I don't know what to expect. I'm taking a lot of classes so I hope they don't stress me out. Tuesday is Student Day. It's a holiday in Argentina, where all the schools close and the students have parties and stuff. Since we're Adventists we're going to have a dry party all day, but the activities they have planned sound like a lot of fun. I'll update as soon as that day's over because I'm sure I'll have a ton of stories to tell. :)