In Pedro Santana

Hey Everyone!Today I am in Pedro Santana, which is in the West of the country, and still the south. I am here because we wanted to come visit and Wilman was asked to interpret again for Food for the Hungry again, in Elìas Piña. So, that is where he is right now. I am with Eunice and my dear friend Eliza(beth). She is a wonderful girl, who wants to live in the states, I might have already mentioned her. She is also culturally pressured right now to have a boyfriend so if any of you single Christian guy friends of mine are interested, llamame. haha.
I rode in a Toyota Camry today (probably about a `95) and I am not kidding there were 7 people in it. It was nuts. Then I rode in the back of a truck for awhile and yeah, basically you hitchike here. It was alright though. All safe. I met a group of Americans that Wilman was helping and they were from San Antonion Tx, seriously I meet more diverse Americans in another country than my own. Point is, I´m safe, having fun and I have a surprise!!
I GET TO SEE MY SPONSOR CHILD TOMORROW!I AM SO EXCITED!
This is awesome, and I can´t even express. I saw Mario and Raul today, which was in itself so awesome (AND FIOR). And I can`t wait to see my little girl! I am just so thrilled, seriously. We will see what happens, but I am so excited.
Praise God, everything has been getting better and better with my cold, it seems that I will just continue to get better. I am having fun but I am a little distressed because the laptop that I brought down for Wilman broke. I think he broke it somehow and isn´t telling me or maybe it just died, but it doesn´t make any sense and it can´t start the OS. I want to try and press the restart button but I don´t want to do it without making sure what exactly it will do, and I don´t have the CDs here with me, which means I might have to wait until Pat comes down and have him bring a lot of stuff.
Oh well.Also, there are a few cultural differences I wanted to highlight.
1. Eunice was seemingly upset with me because I said I didn´t bring any nice clothes with me. I tried to explain that it was because I didn´t want to lose them in my suitcases if my suitcases were lost by the airline (because that just happened to all of us in Europe), but it went too fast for me to give my actual reason (because when someone is yelling at you in another language it is a bit intimidating you know? you have to buy yourself time to think), which was that as a missionary, I don´t want to look like I am waving money in people´s faces. you know? But here that is actually the perception of missionaries. They live in $300,000 houses with nice clothes and a nice car and go to the nice big and rich people churches. This was depressing to me, and I wish I could have explained myself better.
2. Wilman talks about how I should watch what I eat because if I don´t I will get fat. Honestly I am losing a lot of weight here, because I am not eating all the time, and so it is absolutely ridiculous. He also said, "well, men care here if their women get fat, and they say something about it." This was sort of revolting to me, but maybe that is more how it should be, I don´t know. All I know is that Pat has told me over and over again that it is ridiculous that I worry about it, and I felt VERY angry with Wilman that he felt like he could talk about it with me. This is an example of cultural misunderstanding - apparently. And there are tons of these.
3. Also, Wilman kept bugging me about preparing for my wedding, and I finally kind of yelled at him and said "Look it will be at the very least in two years I cannot go read a whole ton of marriage books right now when I should be spending my last year AT LEAST seeking God solo ya know?" It took him a really long time to understand what I was trying to say, and he did not realize that it was actually him bringing it up, but it was just ridiculous because it was in two languages and you know, that is hard.
I very much apologize for all this poor english (if there is any or a lot, I am sorry), I am so not used to English anymore and I forget words ALL the time.
Anyway, I love guys thank you so much, may God Bless you tons,Please pray for my sponsor child,
Love,Nora