On Tuesday Amy and I went to our first rehearsal for the Christmas drama. Last week the woman in charge was desperate for volunteers and everyone was busy staring at the floor and Amy & I caved in during a moment of weakness. We agreed to help out on the proviso that we did not get speaking parts. Sunday and Monday was happily spent picturing ourselves as background shepherds or as a heavenly host. Tuesday quickly shattered these happy illusions!!!! We are doing a sketch about Santa Claus and Amy is bossy&demanding woman and I....am an elf! Not only do we both have large speaking parts but I'm called "Candy" and have to wear a full elf costume. And no you can't see photos! My only solace is that we will perform this on Christmas eve in Laura Flores so I know those poor kids will get at least one laugh this Christmas!
On Thursday my friend Claire invited us round to hers. She baked Christmas cookies and we decorated them (watch this space for photographic evidence before we ate them all) and she made us mulled wine and played a Christmas album. It was soo nice! It felt all festive, definitely the happiest I've been in weeks :0) It was so kind of her, I am incredibly lucky in my friends here.
Today Amy cooked the refugerio (snack) for our youth service. She decided to make pancakes and introduce Ecuadorians to the joy of lemon&sugar pancakes, yum! I didn't cook but I watched, did the washing up, tested the dodgy ones and even poured out a cup of flour (exhausting work!)
WE piled up the pancakes, tucked a dozen lemons in our handbag and off we went. We decided to splash out on a taxi since it was raining and we didn't want the food to get wet; this idea was rather ruined by the fact that guy with the church key (only 1 copy for entire church) didn't come for half an hour. Did we look weird standing in the rain for 30 mins on the busiest street in the city holding unto a stack of pancakes-yes. Were we bothered? Not at all.
Persuading the locals to try lemon&sugar was a battle...
but we converted them all!!!
A triumph for Great Britain.
P.S. Sometimes the "youth" here isn't always all that young ;)
It's young at heart that counts ...... says she as one who's got to the stage that when you bend down to tie your shoes you wonder what else you can do while you're down there!!!
ReplyDelete... by the way I'm impressed with the bucket of pancakes... and lemon and sugar is the ONLY way to eat them!
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