Today was such a gorgeous day!!! I walked to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Pretty amazing display of art. My main thing was seeing Fernando Botero's work. They have his art on display here until mid-August. He's from Medellí­n, Colombia. His recent paintings depict the violence in Colombia. He draws his people large or fat. That's his style. You can see a bunch of his work on google images. This particular display of art was really amazing, really powerful. I even got teary-eyed. It's so sad what Colombia has become over the last 50 years. It's truly an amazing country with amazing people. Seeing his art and reading about it really struck me. I've always had a heart for Colombia, but even more now that I've been there and met so many of my relatives there, some who have had to move to safer countries like Costa Rica. Christians are heavily persecuted there by the revolutionaries (FARC). It's crazy…

So after that I bought an empanada and strolled through the many beautiful parks. Everyone was out today enjoying the great weather, either running or walking their dogs or reading on a park bench. It was at least 70 ̊F in the sun. I didn't even need a warm shirt today.

I went back to my apartment and tried hooking up the dial-up again, this time trying something differently, and it worked!!! YES!!! Now I can use my own computer for e-mails and I don't have to copy & paste the little @ anymore. I still can't figure out how they do it on their computers here.

On telefe (a main tv channel) they show movies all day (on Saturdays) so back at the apt I watched part of Date With the President's Daughter and Parent Trap (the newer one with Lindsay Lohan) & these are dubbed in Spanish of course so it helps me pick up on new vocabulary. There's a Jackie Chan one on now. (How do you spell Jackie in this case???) Anyway, so this is my Saturday night. But there's more!!!

So, I've been talking to Jennifer, my favorite Peruvian, on messenger and she has a Christian friend here in Buenos Aires named Ruben and he happened to be on messenger too so she introduced us and he gave me the address to his church & it's huge & 3 services and you have to get there early to get in (http://www.reydereyes.org.ar/). So I may be brave enough to take a bus (colectivo) by myself & I haven't done the bus thing yet. He has to go to the airport so he won't be there Sunday but we're going to meet up Monday and have tea (mate) so he can introduce me to some of his friends and so I can bug him with silly questions I have. He works with YWAM (youth with a mission) but in Spanish it's JuCUM (juventud con una mission). He helps kids who live on the streets. Anyway, time for bed �
**more about yerba mate courtesy of wikipedia: Yerba mate (Rioplatense Spanish or erva mate (Portuguese) (Ilex paraguariensis) is a species of holly (family Aquifoliaceae) native to subtropical South America in northern Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil and Bolivia. A highly caffeinated herbal tea called mate is prepared by steeping the dried leaves in hot water. Drinking mate with friends from a shared hollow gourd (also called a mate in Spanish, or cabaña or cuia in Portuguese) with a metal straw (a bombilla in Spanish, bomba or canudo in Portuguese) is an extremely common social practice in Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and southern Brazil. Its use has also been introduced into Lebanon and Syria, particularly among the Druze minority.
**good Charles Spurgeon quote:

"…be not discontented with your calling. Whatever God has made your position, or your work, abide in that, unless you are quite sure that he calls you to something else. Let your first care be to glorify God to the utmost of your power where you are. Fill your present sphere with his praise, and if he needs you in another he will show it to you."

besitos y abrazos (xoxo)
~Elizabeth