From Phillip's Point of View

Hi! Phillip Vollman here!

Today’s theme was “Jonah and (or in) the Whale/ GRAN Pez”. We were originally going to do loaves and fishes but…that’s not much of an action story…

Morning was great! We had for breakfast…whatever we had—and we had it with PASSION FRUIT JUICE [!] (it’s kinda a big deal)

We loaded into the van and went on our way to Iglesia Cristo Salvador. On our way we saw schoolchildren—it looks like schools ends quite early in Santiago. We arrived and split into two groups—one that would clean and paint the sacristy, and one that would finish the upper room (this last one had only 3 members.) The sacristy was painted the same color as the upper room—a fab light blue. There were always two or three too many people in the room—Ann and Fiona had nice naps and I had some more iPod Touch time while we stayed out of the way. ☺

After we had finished, we cooled off and prepared for another amazing/chaotic 90 minutos of… VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL—(Dominican Version). The kids were much more well behaved today… we also used a method of handing out crayons that made it harder for people to hog them. They had so much energy—it was amazing to watch them. My favorite part was when Father Hipólito played “Jonah” and played a little trick on Martha by quickly getting to the opposing door of the building that he had departed from… (It was just nice to see how Martha lit up—he is in his eighties, after all).


After VBS we returned to the hotel, rested for a while, and went to market. We went to a superstore called La Sirena, and there I really discovered that the technological items in the Republic did NOT match those in the States by far… We then went to a market and bought items for us and our families…

We had dinner. We did compline… and attempted four-part harmony but settled on two part for now…
That’s pretty much all that happened today—as far as I know*

*(That might not be a lot)