Yay Friday!!!

So...Wednesday night I went to our worship service, Encuentro, and met with my small group. It was really good and very encouraging. Thursday night was good, but stressful. I had my first night of my service project working with the homeless. Basically we split into 3 groups of about 3 or 4 people, bring coffee and cookies, and each take a different route and visit and talk with the people. It was frustrating sometimes because they were very hard to understand (even if they had been speaking English), and I was with native Spaniards, so I didn't talk much this first time. But it was an amazing experience, and I definitely have a passion for talking with the homeless. The frustrating part was that we were there for about 4 hours and I didn't get to bed till 1:30am...and had class the next day. And that's how it's likely going to be every week. But oh well...I know God will give me the strength I need. Today after class I came back, took a lovely/needed siesta, and had a really good quiet time. I was going to hang out with friends tonight, but to save money on dinner, I'm just going to hang out with them later. Oh, I forgot to say, this week my "travel group" of friends bought our return tickets for our 10 day trip. We got tickets from Frankfurt, Germany to Spain for about $40! What a blessing! I also decided to go to Portugal for a 3 days next weekend. There's a lot of cool stuff to do there, and the program we would go with provides a hotel, city tour, some food, etc. The beaches are supposed to be gorgeous. This weekend will be really fun, we are going to the beach tomorrow to see the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria (Columbus' ships), and hang out. Sunday I'm running a 5K to raise money for breast cancer research. More on those later. :)