Its Friday Friday Friday

So Fridays are Ladies class where members of the Spanish Church come to roquetas and help the women learn to sew, cook spanish food and read and write in spanish. I may have said this before but if they are able to read and write in spanish they can get certified by the state to work. An amazing thing happened today. One of the women who has been attending the class for a year now showed up today with her certificate from the state for work all because of the womens class. Norma, the spanish lady from the church, who has been running the class and Tiffany were so touched that they both teared up. It is amazing to see already what the Whitleys and this church have done, through gods will, to change these peoples lives here. Because of this class offered every friday, this woman is now able to get a job and support her family.  It was quite moving.

At the class another woman from the church made a spanish dish and taught the women how to cook it as well. Its this flour sort of thing that is from spain that you cook in a frying pan that is very similar to grits but a bit dryer, it was delicious. What was really entertaining was to watch the African women eat the Spanish dish. While it was new to me as well, they acted as if it was the strangest thing they had ever seen on a plate in their entire lives. If that wasn't funny enough, the faces they made as they ate the dish were even better. It was just funny to see this woman react in such a way to Spanish food when a lot of people foreign to Africa would argue that African food is the strangest of all the world's cuisines. It was really amusing.

After Ladies class we went to the twins soccer game which I was really excited to see. They are only 6 and I was very interested to see how the worlds most popular sport (and my favorite) was addressed in Spains youth. While the twins have only been playing for 6 months, clearly some of their team mates had been dribbling soccer balls as they left their mothers womb. These kids were amazing. Im sure some of these 6 years old could teach me a thing or two about soccer. It was just cool to see how seriously appreciated and important soccer is to the Spanish, especially at such a young age. That is something I respect immensely.

Tomorrow is kids club again, my favorite, I love the kids here! Please keep me and everything and everyone else involved here in roquetas in your thoughts and prayers!