Week 15

This week was a busy week of homework (mainly a big paper for the New Testament class) and rehearsals for our Christmas program. On top of those things most of the class spent hours of the morning on Monday getting Ecuadorian identification called censos (thanks to all of you who were praying about those this week) and then spent the afternoon celebrating Quito Days.







This local holiday involves playing games, climbing a greased poll for prizes, eating traditional Ecuadorian food and a Quito Days Princess (Kira). We went to Otavalo, the largest market town in this area, and went shopping for Christmas on Friday. We also decorated the dorm for Christmas this week and went all out with lights, stockings and a real Christmas tree. This next week will be our last week before our Christmas break!





Student Profiles

Name: Elin Wickstrom
Age: 18
Home Town: North Kingsville, OH
Favorite thing about CBC: The conversations here can be completely fun or completely serious or anything in between.
Interests: Tennis, playing piano, playing card games, and reading
Plans for the future: Tenitivly planning on attending North Park University




Name: Dan Nicholas
Age: 19
Home Town: Syracuse, NY
Favorite thing about CBC: Living in another country.
Interests: Playing guitar, writing, reading
Plans for the future: Probably going to North Park University and majoring in either theology or political science or both.




Prayer Requests: That we have good closure this week on the first half of the year. Safe travels next weekend for most of the students and staff that are traveling to the United States and Canada.

Photos: Quito Days Celebrations: Karen and Caroline in masks that were some of the prizes; Princess Kira; Natalie trying to break clay jars that held candy; Alex in a sack race; Tim and Andrew in the wheelbarrow race; a group of guys climbing the pole; Karianne and Elin in a three-legged race; Elin; Dan