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week 26: let the chaos begin (december 8-14)
immaculate conception: this week began with a celebration of the immaculate conception on monday. eight days before, we began a novena and each of the houses prayed the rosary at 5:00 every evening. then this monday, the last day, we did one big rosary with everyone that was really cool. we set up five different stations, each one having a small shrine in commemoration of mary. then as a big group, we traveled to each station, saying one decade of the rosary at each one. afterwards, we all gathered together in the school to have mass. it was a good way to start the week and i enjoyed celebrating this holy day as a big community.
lexy, kylie & leah: another great part of this week is that lexy, kylie and leah came to visit! i picked them up at the airport on wednesday night after work and we headed to the capital. i got permission to take thursday off instead of sunday, so we stayed 2 nights in the capital and 1 night in a little beach town called juan dolio. the four of us wandering around this crazy country was quite an adventure... especially trying to get around with public transportation and all of our luggage (which included all the treats and christmas gifts they brought me)... we definitely made a scene everywhere we went. we had a great time though... we paid $1 to buy corn and let pigeons fly all over us... we toured around the colonial zone of santo domingo... we shopped and bartered til our feet hurt... we had dinner on the beach... and even saw a real live dominican baseball game. the stories and adventures are too many to name here... but i'll have tons of pictures up soon (mostly taken by lexy) and let those speak for themselves!
soccer game: we ended the week with a big soccer game on sunday. it was time for my house (santa rosa) and kelly's house (san miguel) to play each other again... so we decided to invite our guests to play. lexy and leah played with me and my boys and kylie played with kelly and her boys because kylie's godson, carlos, lives in casa san miguel. it was a fun game, but my team got crushed. my boys are a lot smaller than the other guys and it seems to matter a lot more in soccer than baseball... plus i wasn't too much help and our best player twisted his ankle about 10 minutes into the game. we ended up losing 3-0... we tried hard and played til the last second... lexy was convinced that if we kept playing we would have at least gotten one goal, so the boys wouldn't have felt so bad... but it never happened. oh well... better luck next time, santa rosa!
immaculate conception: this week began with a celebration of the immaculate conception on monday. eight days before, we began a novena and each of the houses prayed the rosary at 5:00 every evening. then this monday, the last day, we did one big rosary with everyone that was really cool. we set up five different stations, each one having a small shrine in commemoration of mary. then as a big group, we traveled to each station, saying one decade of the rosary at each one. afterwards, we all gathered together in the school to have mass. it was a good way to start the week and i enjoyed celebrating this holy day as a big community. 
lexy, kylie & leah: another great part of this week is that lexy, kylie and leah came to visit! i picked them up at the airport on wednesday night after work and we headed to the capital. i got permission to take thursday off instead of sunday, so we stayed 2 nights in the capital and 1 night in a little beach town called juan dolio. the four of us wandering around this crazy country was quite an adventure... especially trying to get around with public transportation and all of our luggage (which included all the treats and christmas gifts they brought me)... we definitely made a scene everywhere we went. we had a great time though... we paid $1 to buy corn and let pigeons fly all over us... we toured around the colonial zone of santo domingo... we shopped and bartered til our feet hurt... we had dinner on the beach... and even saw a real live dominican baseball game. the stories and adventures are too many to name here... but i'll have tons of pictures up soon (mostly taken by lexy) and let those speak for themselves!
soccer game: we ended the week with a big soccer game on sunday. it was time for my house (santa rosa) and kelly's house (san miguel) to play each other again... so we decided to invite our guests to play. lexy and leah played with me and my boys and kylie played with kelly and her boys because kylie's godson, carlos, lives in casa san miguel. it was a fun game, but my team got crushed. my boys are a lot smaller than the other guys and it seems to matter a lot more in soccer than baseball... plus i wasn't too much help and our best player twisted his ankle about 10 minutes into the game. we ended up losing 3-0... we tried hard and played til the last second... lexy was convinced that if we kept playing we would have at least gotten one goal, so the boys wouldn't have felt so bad... but it never happened. oh well... better luck next time, santa rosa!
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