Well, this is our last day here..

Yep, its true folks, we leave so early tomorrow morning it technically does  not count as a day. On Sunday we went to "The main church", as Edwin likes to call it. El Redentor (The Redeemer) is the largest Lutheran church in Colombia, and it is just slightly bigger than the average lutheran church in Canada. We felt like we had left Colombia for that time, the only difference we really felt was that they spoke Spanish. Otherwise, it felt like we were back in Canada, it was very familiar. Then we went out for lunch with some of the people from the church, and me and Michelle ordered ribs and got these huge pork ribs that were really good but we only ate about ten percent of it. In never ceases to amaze me the huge lunches people eat here, and the small suppers. We are used to small lunches and big suppers, so its funny when we go out and order so much and the people are just like woooah and laughing at us. I think the ribs are still in the fridge downstairs,, probably wont get the chance to eat them. We also have alot of cereal down there, Areguippe corn flakes are the best!!
Anyway, enough rambling about food. After lunch we went back to our apartement, and just packed and relaxed until Alexandra, one of our translators, and her husband, took us to the mall for pizza and ice cream, our last Crepes and Waffels ice cream ever!! So sad, I tried the rose petals kind, and it reminded me of eating flowers at home. Edible ones. Brownie and Coffee Toffe and Avellena are by far the favorites of the group, we usually all have some combination of those. Why am I talking about food again.
Then today we got to sleep in, and Edwin picked us up and we went to the church office, church being the Iglesia Evangelico Lutherana of Colombia, where the Bishop works. We met with him, and shared our experiences and any suggestions we had for the groups coming in the future. We talked about how it was hard to leave our first group, but it was worth it to experience another facet of the culture. We also talked about some general observations about Colombian culture, the people walk slow and drive like crazy people! Bishop Eduardo thought that was very funny. Then we met with a lady who told us about the churches program working with people with AIDS. It was very interesting.
Then we went for lunch, Matt and Kyle shopped around a bit, Michelle and I blew the last of our pesos on some Bon Bon Bum suckers, and came back home, where I commenced a solid four and a half hour nap. I am not really sure what everyone else did. Anyway, now we are waiting for our host family to come for supper, and then I am pretty sure we will just go to bed, seeing as how when you sleep, time goes by faster! We are all very excited to come home. We wish we could bring Colombia back with us, but we cant stay here, we miss you guys too much!! I miss my Mom and Dad.
Anyway, we are excited to see you all, we have had a wonderful time, and we want to come home!! See you guys soon!!!
Loooove Annaliese Joy and Team Colombia.