Week 29 - Part A

Part A
This is going to be another two-part week because most of the students are traveling this weekend for our Easter break and there will be photos and stories of that coming in the next few days.

We had classes and ministries as normal this week through Thursday. On Thursday we had a Holy Week service and our cooks prepared traditional Ecuadorian Easter food (it is a soup that had twelve grains in it as well as many other things). Then the students had a free day from classes because of the Easter weekend.





A group of us stayed around campus and tried to take part in the local traditions of Holy Week here in Quito. On Thursday we went to a concert, on Friday we went to the Good Friday parade, and on Sunday we went to a charity bullfight.




Photos: Ellen and Kira with their kids at the La Merced ministry site; Alexis with some more of the kids; The Good Friday parade (it is filled with men wearing purple or dressed as Jesus and carrying crosses); Part of our group at the parade (Andrew, Kria, Annalea, Luke and Kylene); The bull fight; The "Adventure Squad" (the people who stuck around all weekend and went on random adventures including the bull fight) - Laura, Kylene, Holly, Elin, Andrew, Luke, Kira, Azurlee and Annalea