Monday, October 1, 2007 Feast of Saint Therese of Liseaux/the little child Jesus/the little Flower!!

Monday, October 1, 2007 Feast of Saint Therese of Liseaux/the little child Jesus/the little Flower!!

When I woke up, Olga immediately knew I had been crying last night. She said she’d heard me a little but could also tell because I had “teary eyes”. She reassured me, “Falta poco. Falta poco”, basically “Little remains, it’s almost over”. I think she felt a little relief knowing I’d finally showed some emotion!

Since I’d slept so well last night and had such a productive weekend (please note the sarcasm), I skipped my first class of the day and read the readings for my Biblia class instead. Ironic right? But I haven’t skipped any classes and it was my Doctrina Social class, which I can get notes from my other gringo friends Christine and Mike. I went to mass at 1:00 on campus to celebrate the feast of Saint Therese, who is my patron saint. So in some cultures, today would be another birthday for me! After mass I had class, and then ate lunch with Christian. Then Biblia class, then I ran some errands: recharged my phone minutes, made a copy of the book I have to read for my Doctrina class, and bought soap. Funny story: I asked for “Sopa de Dove” which means “Dove soup”. When the lady gave me a really weird look I realized what I’d said. So I apologized and asked for “Jabon de Dove” which is actually “Dove soap”. She chuckled, handed me the soap, and I left the store quite embarrassed.

Walking home from class I bought a $.40 soft serve ice cream cone that I’ve been tempted to try everyday I walk home from class. I figured it was a good way to celebrate my Saint’s Feast Day!! I stopped by Saint Vincent’s church because they had a statue of St. Therese and I wanted to pray a bit. But the statue wasn’t there (it had been replaced by Saint Vincent!). I was there for about 5 minutes and mass started and I ended up staying for the whole thing! So what I great way to celebrate my Saint’s Feast Day: two masses AND ice cream!

After mass I hustled to meet Tom for our final meeting with Nuestra Casa. We were late, but everyone else was later so it didn’t really matter. The closing was very similar to the induction and now we are officially volunteers at Nuestra Casa. Good thing because I need to start getting more hours in! Afterwards we walked back to the metro and I took it one stop to Los Heroes, my stop and walked home. I had a little once with Olga, this time literally at once (eleven o’clock). Then headed to bed to talk to Trevor and again try to get a little work done.