So for the last 3 hours I have been making cookies. Chocolate chip to be exact. For the last hour and a half Joe and I have been rockin out to a lot of random music in order to not get bored making cookies. I'll tell you what, bakers must have tough feet because mine are killing me!
We're going to a party tomorrow in the favelas (slums) with the group CCJ that we have been working with. They are having a party and we were asked to bring enough stuff for 40 kids. I thought, "okay, that's not too bad." Then I realized, 40 kids, 10 workers, and 20 students. 70 people total. Hmm.. things got a little more complicated with that realization. So I started mixing the ingredients and Josh started chopping up the chocolate bar (they don't have chocolate chips here) and off we went. Part of the way through Joe came in to help me bake them all and that's when we got rockin to a lot of different music. We both have a lot of similar likes and we kept switching around to keep things interesting. We got to about 150 or more and decided to call it quits for the night.
Earlier today we were planning on going to hang out with the CCJ and learn more about the community but it started raining and the bus guys were on strike so we weren't able to catch a bus out there. We made the best of things and came back to watch the Portugal vs Espanha game of the Euro Cup. Portugal lost, sadly, but I don't really care because I am rooting for Germany to kick everyone's butts. It was fun though getting a lot of friends together to watch. We were actually getting pretty into it and I'm glad no one was recording. We then came home and started working on the cookies for tomorrow.
Tomorrow the bus guys are still on strike so we'll see how the day goes. It is crazy expensive paying for taxis everywhere so we can't do that much longer. Hopefully the day brings a new hope (star wars reference for you nerds, aka Josh). Here are some pics of the day:
Yep, that was my day! Hopefully things work out tomorrow! Tchau!
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