For the past three years the school has had an international food fair that has also served as an outreach tool. The staff purchase the supplies for their respective countries and work with students who sign up to make and serve the food. This year was a success as well and along with the outreach being done in Yata has opened an opportunity for the school. Please see the previous blog about the opportunity to open a church in Yata. Pray that God will bless this opportunity.
It is also nice to think that three weeks form today I will wake up in Michigan!
In continuation from the photo posted on last week's blog...
Ooops!! Obviously I didn't cover my trail well enough as the Mexicans raided the American booth claiming I held them up down yander...ahem... Not in the picture, but definately present were Keila and Lyli.
Thankfully we were able to reach an amiable solution to the situation, though I still wish that it included some burritos. Left to Right: A sponsor of the USA booth, Teachers: Sarai, Lyli, and Keila. You can learn more about Lyli's and Keila's stories if you contact GMI and request the "Having Nothing, Having It All" DVD.
Setting up the auditorium and booths. Devorah exhibiting her enthusiasm for Mexico.
Kody directing the chime choir. Teacher Sarai and Enrique (in the background) were the masters-of-ceremony.
Tara directing the choir.
Kody playing the piano. The title of the piece is “Malagueña”.
Raul and Rimberto putting their practice to work.
Nurse Susie helping set up the Belize booth. Susie met her husband Cornelio in Belize. They have lived in Tennessee for a number of years before coming to Bolivia.
The Belize booth all set to go.
The Bolivian group preparing their food.
The Bolivian booth under construction.
Chicha de Mango. They pealed the mangos and boiled them.
Bolivia all ready to go.
Canada cooking away preparing their Chili and garlic bread. They also served cornbread. Mindy (left) and Helen (right) led the food preparation.
The Canadian team setting up.
Oh Canada…from covered wagons, chili, cornbread, and garlic bread it seems awfully American. ;) The food was good, the cornbread and chili was especially nice. The garlic bread was good too and it was braided.
The Mexicans setting up.
The Mexican team.
The South Africans. Tara focused solely on the S.A. side of things this year since there were four other Americans but thankfully she went up front with us and helped us sing the national anthem.
Franz demonstrating the proper pose for sautéing onions.
Onions getting chopped by Euridice.
The apple cake getting mixed up. It isn’t the healthiest cake, but wow, it is good.
The oven warming up for the biscuits and the Canadians’ garlic bread.
Team USA cooking biscuits, gravy, and apple cake. We served mashed potatoes and gravy to our team for lunch.
Jhunior cutting more onions!
Gabriel cooling off the potatoes for lunch. We had mashed potatoes and gravy…yum.
I had to wash Old Glory because it had been tucked away in a hut. Carla and Ximena rushed over to get their picture taken with the flag as it was drying. It was nice to get it cleaned up and flying for a few minutes.
We didn’t get our biscuits into the oven in time so we had to reheat the oven. When the oven is heated the fire is put out and the logs removed.
Franz working the oven.
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Loved the blogs and pics. Praying for you man
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