Today was an awesome day, especially for Steph. Here's what made it awesome.
1. Steph burned her leg on the handle of the oven...probably a 1.5 degree burn.
2. Shortly after, while preparing the pizzas for dinner, Steph greased the pan and thoroughly spread the dough with grease on her fingers. About to start greasing and spreading the second pizza dough, Joy, alarmed, asked "What are you doing?!" Suddenly it dawned on them both: Steph had "greased" the first pan and spread the dough with dish detergent instead of vegetable oil. An understandable mistake as both liquids are yellow (as shown above). She asked Joy if they could still serve the pizza for dinner. Joy, always the more rational one, denied the request. The soapy dough was thrown into the trash, and they set off to make new pizza dough, only to realize that there wasn't enough oil to make it! Steph ran frantically to the store in search of more oil, cursing the ground for the Latinamerican tradition of an afternoon Siesta, when all the stores close from 1pm til 6/7pm.
3. After returning home, dejected and defeated, Steph and Joy started to walk to the house meeting room for a team meeting. They walked through the kitchen, looking at each other and chatting about the misadventures of the day, when out of nowhere the kitchen cupboard charged and attacked Steph, pummeling her directly in the forehead. She crumbled to the ground, pain shooting through her head and both girls fearing the worst: that Steph might have yet another concussion on the books...Concussion #3. Thankfully, after aid from Joy and their other teammate, and ice on the forehead for an hour, Steph pulled through with nothing more than a large bump on her forehead and a few days worth of pain.
4. During their team meeting and while icing the forehead, Steph and Joy forgot about the first pizza in the oven until it was too late...the dough had burned in the fiery furnace and would be served crispy to the team for dinner. Epic fail.
Epilogue: It looked like all hope for a sufficient dinner was lost until on a walk later Steph and Joy discovered a woman selling things through the locked gate of her corner store, and the girls were finally able to obtain the coveted oil and return home to make the second pizza.
Reese's Cups. Peanut Butter M&M's. Jif Peanut Butter. These, along with other goodies, arrived today in Córdoba from Steph's mom. Do you find yourself pondering, "How could I-yes, little ol' me-make Steph and Joy's day?" Perhaps this picture illustrates the very answer to that question. We like pretty much all things chocolate (except with wafer-type textures) and/or peanut butter including homemade baked goods. So don't be bashful :-) We will be forever grateful.
This is Heather, one of our awesome new teammates and housemates, and a potential new member (drums/vocals/guitar) of the band! In addition to her musical abilities, Heather paints, draws, builds things, and has an amazing laugh....she even laughs at our jokes.
This is an Argentinian peso....that Joy's keen eye found on the ground today. Add in the 7 pesos she's stumbled upon in the street during the last few days and we may be able to purchase our very own KEYTAR for SteSchAsHar! (8 pesos = USD $2.139845)
We used our first day of rest to give into familiar cravings...trekking the 1.5 miles to the nearby Wal-Mart, we observed how some things are the same throughout the world (thanks to globalization), and some things even the Wal-Mart here doesn't have....aka we'll still need things sent in care packages :)
These numbers stamped on every other piece of wood became the nemesis for Joy and Steph today, whose job was to sand down the wooden frames and remove all marks in preparation for staining.
Exhausted after a longgg day of painting the whole outside gate and entryway at the Cultural Center. Sporking like a couple of sun cats :).
Joy, Steph, and our teammate Sarah spent all afternoon painting the gate in front of the Cultural Center....a musical sing-a-long ensued, which made the time go by quickly (miracle of miracles). We seized the day, cheered L'Chaim, and were never fully dressed without our smiles. Don't worry....we were smiling :)
We became domesticated today by learning our way around the kitchen and how to make a favorite dish in Latinamerica....Empanadas! No fires, and satisfied stomachs....Operation Domestication: Successful.
The whole house (minus Steph) in one of the many beautiful plazas in the center of Córdoba....loving our new city!
Our new home in Córdoba......so awesome.
The back of the Cultural Center in Córdoba where we'll be meeting a lot of university students and others....the first exhibit should be happening in the next 2 weeks!
The view of Argentina and the Atlantic at sunrise on our flight in....about 30 hours into our 34 hour journey, but we sat in awe of this beauty and of our new home for the year.
Our last night at the conference....hanging out in the Terabint tent and taking lots of pictures...with some dancing, bananagrams, and goodbyes on the side. Hope to see all of our OM friends soon!
Sitting in awe of our chocolate sprinkle flakes....pretty much the norm at mealtimes during the GO Conference. Get excited to check out our video which goes more in depth about this great love.
3 of us to Argentina and 1 to Chile....South America, get excited! :D
Instead of waiting 2 hours for a washing machine we took matters into our own hands and decided to handwash our clothes in the sinks. A slightly awkward situation + our clothes not drying in Holland's damp weather for 2 days made for an adventurous laundry day.
A rousing game of banagrams late at night in the tent......at the end of this game the rule is that you have to sing all of your words....(this may or may not be in the instructions)
Before the Missions Medina we took a trip into the nearby town of Delden where we explored the Dutch culture and got to see a castle! (this is not the castle..but a cool door on the main street in town).
On our second day at the GO Conference we were each challenged during one session to create something, have someone else break a piece off of it and then have it returned to the creator to fix the creation and make it whole again. This made us think a lot and thank Jesus even more.
