Bolivia 2018- Thursday

National holiday means more people,
and what better way to celebrate than
working and eating together
           
 Today, as we round up our last couple days of work, we got to make incredible progress in our work on the building and also in the depth of our relationships.  For Cochabamba, today was a national holiday of celebrating their winter solstice as their new year.  Everyone was out of school and work, allowing us more local hands of help at the work site. As simple as my job was of brushing, measuring, and scraping bricks, it was able to be interesting through the conversations we held with the new people giving their time to help.  Though we spoke different languages, we got to really grow and connect to them through the laughter of attempting the others’ language.  As our work day closed, we progressed to half way up the two-meter windows on all five walls and a beginning to a new wall.  
Queens and Kings of Globos (ice-cream shop)
           We got home, cleaned up, and had a special Bolivian dish: pique macho, containing several meats and vegetables laid on top of Carmen’s homemade french fries.  After finishing our delicious dinner, we headed out for specialty ice cream at Globos. Our time out at ice cream gave us another awesome opportunity to build our relationships with our own teams and learning more about each other.  Closing our day out we can reflect back on the day God has given us and how he has guided every single move and relationship that has continued to flourish through the week.  

-Bekah Coster 



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