Week 4 is over! Time is flying in Medellin, it doesn’t feel like it’s been 4 weeks at all.  Ministry this week has been kitchen ministry and it has been a great change of pace. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday my group of guys went to the kitchen at 9 am every morning and worked in the kitchen usually until 12. The tasks would vary every day but it is all primarily helping prepare lunch and dinner for that same day. On Monday I help chopping and dicing peppers, helped cook the stir fry that was being prepared for lunch, and cleaned. Tuesday was a good day. I helped make the plantain bread most of the time. I had to mash up plantains and mix the mashed plantains with other ingredients and then i poured them all into a dish to be cooked later on. Plantain bread is a classic here and it’s good. It almost tastes like banana bread but not quite. Friday I helped restock the pan tree and the spent most of the time after hollowing out tomato’s and making tuna tomato’s. I had not heard of that combination until just then. Saturday we helped grade carrots. That’s all we did Saturday but it was good to help out.

Fun things this week

Monday, I went out with Nick (a squad leader), Ellie, and Savannah to a good lunch place. I got a very good caramel frappe and egg sandwich. This place was all Nick’s recommendation and it did not disappoint. It was very nice to spend time with a group of people that at one point I didn’t think I would. I’m very grateful for these kinds of days here.

Thursday, PARAGLIDING! I am so blessed for this opportunity and it was fantastic. A group of 16 of us went with a guy who sometimes works at this foundation, and he had great connections with a. Company who does it. We all met in the bakery downstairs at 7:50 am, got in a van, and drove about an hour north to the spot. The drive was beautiful and it was great to see so much more green and less populated part of medallion. The spot was on a beautiful mountainside, and it was a restaurant with a field in front that looked like the edge of the world. We got there by 9 am and left by 3pm. The day included chatting with each other, taking pictures, getting ice cream, petting dogs that the restaurant shelters off the streets, getting lunch, and of course paragliding! I am so grateful for the memories made that day and I will cherish them for a while.

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