The 4th of July...Peruvian Style

Well, our day started off when my friend, Brian, and I went to UNT for our Holiness of God study only to find that the faculty had barred the gates of the university closed with banners and a planned protest march. (I'm told that the best university profs get paid $500 per month--I think I'd protest too.)


Pretty exciting. The national police were out and everything. Then one of the protesters started speaking over the loud speakers about how all the North Americans are cheating Peru because their businesses are not paying taxes or their fair share of taxes, and if they would, then the government could pay the professors more. My eyes started darting back and forth as I realized I was the only obvious North American around (Bryan doesn't count since he could pass himself off for any number of nationalities!). We then headed over to SALI for our study, and Pablo invited a friend of his off the street who wasn't a Christian. Interesting discussion. We also had a new young lady join us so that made 8 or 9 students in our study!

Janelle accompanied Heather to the local orphanage, Hogar de Esperanza, for their weekly Bible study on the Fruit of the Spirit.


In the afternoon, Justin finished his first Spanish cycle/ book with our teacher, Noemi. He's been working on this for about eight months and scored a perfect 100 on his final exam (thus shaming his parents!!!).


In the evening, we had some of the other missionary families over for some homemade chili and fun. Here's some of the kids playing around.


Janelle also gave her presentation for her Master's thesis in Architecture on Peru Mission.

Afterwards folks enjoyed some trivial pursuit, a movie (Eight Below), cookies, laughter and and lots of fun jumping on the trampoline [Did you know the spanish word for trampoline literaly means "elastic bed"?].

Oh yeah...we did have some fireworks.


Well, sort of. They were on the TV from one of those CDs that plays various types of scenes on a loop. But hey, they were fireworks, kinda-sorta, nevertheless.


And that's our July 4th celebration...peruvian-gringo style.