Happy Halloween Homies hope you're all dressed up as Bob Ross to celebrate his 74th bday that he can't.
We couldn't find any cool costumes, so we are just regular missionaries today.
The majority of the members of the branch of Chinchina work as coffee pickers.
From what I can tell Halloween is surprisingly kind of the same here in Colombia. Kids dress up and go to houses saying TRIKY TRIKY to ask for candy. They don't seem to knock on doors to ask for candy, but rather they walk into stores. And if they do knock on doors, they are doors in rich neighborhoods. Most people here don't have enough money for more than rice and soup.
This week we met a man named Glen. We were walking through the central park of Chinchina when a man yells at me in English. Normal stuff. People yell at me in English all the time. I just smiled and waved. Then I hear very clearly, ¨Where you from bro??¨ Not a normal Colombian thing to yell. So we went and talked to him and he was born in California, then moved to Mexico when he was a young adult and has been in Colombia for 7 years. We don't know what he exactly does but it sounds pretty sketchy. Its nice to talk to white people in English.
Something funny that the Colombians ALWAYS SAY is ¨EEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHH AVE MARIA PUES HOMBRE!¨ which basically translates as ¨EEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHH BIRD MARY MAN¨ The phrase is used when they are angry. Ave Maria comes from a Catholic prayer. Colombians are cool.
The work here is chug chug chugin along like the little train that could. Love you guys and HAVE A SPOOKY HALLOWEEN!!!
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