Hello all. And by all I mean the few of you who read this blog haha.
The past couple days have been incredibly chill and beautiful. We went to place a called Los Lagos De Montebello on Wednesday, which is basically like a national park of Mexico that has i think 49 state owned lagoons. Some of which are a beautiful blue. And we lucked out because apparently there is a gate where you pay 27 pesos per person (which isn't much) but no one was there and we asked people nearby and they said just to go. I think it was too early for the security guard to show up, and it's the off season for visiting. But regardless it was pretty. We walked around saw some of the lakes, and then got a tour guide. Poor Chema... haha. He was our translator for the trip and we asked to him to ask some of the local people (cause people live in the park like a mini village, which is weird I know), but we didn't realize all the people were surrounding a bottle of alcohol and were drinking. Thankfully we found a guide who was sober and actually incredibly nice. We went to a couple a grottoes, and one we actually went all the way through to the other side. If you've seen Prometheus it was literally like that cave where they found the jars... so creepy. If you haven't, don't it was a terrible movie. Haha. But ya we came out of the cave and we thought we had crossed the border on an underground tunnel into Guatemala. Not really, but we joked cause it felt like it. We also were wearing flip flops cause we thought we were just going to go for a boat ride, which made things harder, but still fun.
The following two days we journeyed into the nearby city of Comitan and explored. We went to Centro, which has this nice park area with surrounding shops and wandered around. I think restaurants there love foreigners becuase they kept on fighting for our attention lol. And I found this are where they make uniforms and saw lots and lots of barcelona and man u jerseys haha. i almost bought one, but couldn't think of which one i would buy. i also got to see this huge market place, and like huge. imagine a couple costco's put together and that's how big it was. and it was all like clothes/meat/veggies/fruit/movies/ everything vendors. and then i saw this beautifully ornamented graveyard. i have pics of most things which should be on fbook soon.
But moving on:
Today was one of the most touching moments of my life. Like ever. It was right before the kids went to bed and most of the team went to say good bye. And so many of them were crying. And saying don't go (in spanish, but even i could guess what they were saying). Lots of hugs and tears from students that you would never expect it from. One of the guys broke out in tears and Judith burst out laughing haha. It was so funny and cute at the same.
I know this isn't a lot of a lot of sentences, but trust me my heart like broke. One of my kids who is tomboy broke into tears, Ana-Karen, and the student I got closest to Harrison, was crying as well. And that was gg. until then i was perfectly fine, but they were the finishing blow. i started tearing up and all i could think of was, regain control don't start crying in front of all the students.
Surprisingly I got really attached to these kids. I'm going to miss them a lot. And I'm honestly hoping/praying that I can get a job before next summer, and hopefully come back here. These students deal a lot with missionaries that come and go, and I know coming back would mean a lot to them, but also to me.
But yes, I highlight the last couple paragraphs. Literally the saddest and most beatiful moment of my life. Perhaps when we leave at 3:30 am and see students who wake up for us then, it will be more beauitful, but I might just be grumpy hahahhaha. To all those who are thinking about coming here to Ichthus... please do. I will convince you if you give me a chance :P.
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