Day 56

My commute to class took 45 minutes today when it usually takes 25, so I was a little bit late. Class went well, though, and I went home afterward. I read and went to lunch by myself at YogoYogo, a restaurant in the Residencial owned by this cute Korean couple, who -- as Meredith says -- prove that you can live in Peru for years without ever becoming fluent in Spanish. I met Kay Block at the grocery store and got a ride with her back to her house. Dave and I drove to San Martin in surprisingly little traffic (Lima is unpredictable in so many ways...) and were able to squeeze in some ping-pong with Joel (the pastor's son at El Alfarero) before our class. This is a photo from our beginning English class -- Ines saw me taking the picture and just couldn't be candid for me. I did some interviewing (in Spanish) tonight about why the students are here and how they learned about the class. I'm writing an article for the EFCA about the English classes and how they are an effective outreach tool. The classes have brought in a lot of people from the community who don't necessarily attend El Alfarero as a church. Some students, such as Ines, attend Catholic churches, and the English class is serving as a way to connect those people to an Evangelical Christian church -- sometimes a difficult bridge to build in Peruvian culture.