So I realized that my expectations were totally unrealistic and there's NO way I'm going to be able to finish in a day. So, sit back and enjoy some more really long anecdotes.
The day actually began really really early in the morning with most of the group violently ill. There were three of us who weren't ill from the food. One of them was Samwise, and due to his allergies he wasn't eating the food. So that doesn't count. The other two were The Joker and me, and as I hear, The Joker got sick re-acclimating to American food once we were back in the States. Go figure. (Skyscraper later referred to this situation as my revenge for having the most trouble with LaVida.)
So we got up and did some work at the church, and later set out for KFC. Yes, Mexican Kentucky Fried Chicken. It was pretty interesting. Which is pretty much the nicest thing that can be said about it, because the other two Compass groups began experiencing much the same struggles as mine. About halfway though the meal, one of the girls came from the bathroom, and whispered to me, "Hey Lisa, there's some violent illness going on...I'd like to stay and comfort them but I can't handle it...would you..." So I headed to the girls' bathroom, patted some backs, and then attempted to control my own nausea at the situation. Mostly successfully.
Then those of us who were part of the group doing the large Everything Skit left early, and rehearsed at the place where we were having the large group meeting. Then, the big meeting began. It consisted of Spearhead, which included Ignite, which included Compass, which included the Green Machine, my group. We were part of a greater whole, part of a greater whole, and again, and again.
We worshiped in English and Spanish both, heard speakers (one spoke in Spanish with a translator), and the big group performed the Everything Skit. Note here about the Everything Skit: This skit was very painful for some of us. For some, the temptation/villain the person was playing was connected to their past in a very painful way, and for others, it just...rankled. I was in the latter category. But if hiking was the nightmarish hardest part of La Vida, the Lifehouse Everything Skit was the nightmarish hardest struggle of Mexico City for me, far more than I and most of the others felt it should have been.
After a very advertisement-like message from the president of LAM, the meeting ended and a Compass meeting began. Each group shared what they had been doing - handing out tracts on public transit, working with children in an orphanage, or in our case, a huge number of short-term evangelical tasks. After sharing what we were learning in small groups of three - one person from each group, we headed back to our service sites, where my group practiced our songs, Sweet n' Spazzy worked on her testimony to share, and we worked on our group Everything Skit for our evangelical park presentation coming up on Friday.
The day actually began really really early in the morning with most of the group violently ill. There were three of us who weren't ill from the food. One of them was Samwise, and due to his allergies he wasn't eating the food. So that doesn't count. The other two were The Joker and me, and as I hear, The Joker got sick re-acclimating to American food once we were back in the States. Go figure. (Skyscraper later referred to this situation as my revenge for having the most trouble with LaVida.)
So we got up and did some work at the church, and later set out for KFC. Yes, Mexican Kentucky Fried Chicken. It was pretty interesting. Which is pretty much the nicest thing that can be said about it, because the other two Compass groups began experiencing much the same struggles as mine. About halfway though the meal, one of the girls came from the bathroom, and whispered to me, "Hey Lisa, there's some violent illness going on...I'd like to stay and comfort them but I can't handle it...would you..." So I headed to the girls' bathroom, patted some backs, and then attempted to control my own nausea at the situation. Mostly successfully.
Then those of us who were part of the group doing the large Everything Skit left early, and rehearsed at the place where we were having the large group meeting. Then, the big meeting began. It consisted of Spearhead, which included Ignite, which included Compass, which included the Green Machine, my group. We were part of a greater whole, part of a greater whole, and again, and again.
We worshiped in English and Spanish both, heard speakers (one spoke in Spanish with a translator), and the big group performed the Everything Skit. Note here about the Everything Skit: This skit was very painful for some of us. For some, the temptation/villain the person was playing was connected to their past in a very painful way, and for others, it just...rankled. I was in the latter category. But if hiking was the nightmarish hardest part of La Vida, the Lifehouse Everything Skit was the nightmarish hardest struggle of Mexico City for me, far more than I and most of the others felt it should have been.
After a very advertisement-like message from the president of LAM, the meeting ended and a Compass meeting began. Each group shared what they had been doing - handing out tracts on public transit, working with children in an orphanage, or in our case, a huge number of short-term evangelical tasks. After sharing what we were learning in small groups of three - one person from each group, we headed back to our service sites, where my group practiced our songs, Sweet n' Spazzy worked on her testimony to share, and we worked on our group Everything Skit for our evangelical park presentation coming up on Friday.
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