Hey Everyone
During this time of year the people hold a big dinner for their families and friends and they will kill and cook a pig. This is a big event for the people everyone arrives early in the morning to help kill and prepare the meet. We left our city about seven in the morning and made our way through the mountains to a brother’s house by the time we got there we were all a little car sick and it was time for lunch. The meal consisted of fish, assorted parts of the pig, noodles, green vegetables, and other stuff. The meal was pretty good I was not expecting that liver and intestines would be as good as it was. After the first meal we went to the mountain side to help pick olives. When we returned the family was busy preparing blood sausage. Its prepared by taking the blood of the pig and mixing it in with rice and stuffed into the intestines and boiled. While the people are preparing the food for dinner the guest will play majiong and drink some beers. Most of the time I don’t play majiong because it is an easy way to lose a lot of money, but I got to play the last two games because no one else wanted to play and the guy said we could play without gambling. I ended up winning the last hand. By the time we finished playing it was time for dinner many of the dishes we had for lunch with the addition of the fresh blood sausage. Sadly or luckily enough I did not have any.
A few days later I was hanging out at the school and I ran in to a freshmen English student. As we were talking and I found out that he is part the local people group. This is great news not especially for me but for some of the other people here that will be here longer doing DAD’s work. I hope that I can pass this new friend to some of my other foreign friends. Father might have big plans for this student. Please keep him in your thoughts.
