Back to Bogota

Hello folks, and greetings from Bogota. We returned to Bogota last Thursday to spend the rest of our time here. We were happy to return to the cool temperatures of Bogota, although we perhaps got excited a little too soon. No sooner did we get here, Krista and I both developed head colds (which is why I"m blogging alone today: Krista is taking a nap). As such, these past few days have been fairly uneventful, as we"ve been trying to recoup before starting the SEED learning tour, which begins tonight. While we have not necessarily done much that would be considered exciting, we have been entertaining ourselves. We have cooked a number of times this week, which has been extremely refreshing after having to go out to eat almost continuously for 4 weeks. I wish I could put up the pictures now; without being too immodest, I think we made some pretty impressive dishes, given our situation. We also discovered Glenn and Glenda"s copy of The Lord of the Rings, so we spent the past 3 evenings watching the trilogy. This morning, we went to Zipaquira, a town north of Bogota, where there is supposedly a really beautiful cathedral in an underground salt mine. Unfortunately, when we arrived, we realized that it was VERY expensive to visit the cathedral, so we explored the town instead, enjoying some time in the massive Catholic church during mass (a really interesting experience). Tonight, we head to the MCC office for dinner, which officially begins out SEED learning tour. After dinner, we"ll be heading to the homes of our host families, whom we will be living with until Tuesday morning. Krista and I have really been looking foward to this part of the trip, and we are really excited to finally be at its beginning, even if we are feeling a little under the weather. This will be a short post, as this week has been fairly low-key thus far, but we will blog again after the SEED tour is done, and we should have a lot more to say.

On a different note, we leave for home a week from tomorrow, which seems kind of crazy, but also an inviting prospect. We have really enjoyed our time here, but I think we will be ready to come home in a week, which is a good feeling.

Until Tuesday,
Josh