So I've grown up in the Bible Belt and haven't had a ton of experience with different religions. I mean I know a bit about the other major ones but still haven't had a lot of experience with them. Uruguay is the most secular South American country and 2nd most secular Latin American country (after Cuba). One of the religions practiced here is an Afro-Brazilian religion called Candomble (not related to the dance candombe) Well anyway yesterday was the festival of the sea goddess Yemanja so we went to see what that was about. Basically people gather at the beaches and release their offerings and pray to Yemanja and are blessed and light candles, chant and such. It was really quite strange. But good to see. It made us see how much the people of Uruguay need Jesus. It was so sad to see how many people were paying tribute to this false goddess and we were told that more usually are out there each year.
As a part of one of my classes (Ministry in Latin America) we have to visit a Catholic church and a Pentecostal church. Today we went to the Catholic church. I had been to a Catholic church before in Spain but it was still interesting to see the differences. Mass at the particular place we went to in Spain was more formal this was a bit more laid back I felt like. I mean they still had many Catholic traditions but it wasn't as (for lack of a better word) ceremonious at the one I had gone to before. We're going to that one one more time for a mid-week service and next week going to the Pentecostal church. Which I'm pretty excited about!
After Church today we met back up at Casa and went to a Chinese restaurant. It was pretty nice but a bit pricy so I can't imagine going there a lot.
So yesterday I found out that the Superbowl is today (funny how being out of the country makes it easy to forget about stuff like that. Well anyway we are going to have a Superbowl party and the youth from the church next door were invited and I think a few of them are going to come and some other various people. I'm not a big fan of American football but it'll be good to have a time to hang out with people and there will be snacks (and I'm out of food and Cofa's is closed.) So I'm kinda looking forward to that. But I'm going to want to rest up before because it'll be a bit late. So we'll see how that goes. I mean it's kinda crazy for me to look forward for a football game but I guess I'm mostly excited about the food (I think they got dulce de leche ice cream) Haha!
Cofa's (since I mentioned it) is where I buy most of my groceries. It's kinda sorta like wal-mart. But not really. I mean I go for the food but they also have some other stuff like clothes, school supplies, hygienic supplies and stuff. Wal-mart is the best thing I can think of but at the same time it's not like Wal-mart. There is a nice grocery store by the university where my spanish classes are but I've only been there once and then there are a lot of small ones.
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