Ten years ago today! A group from First Evangelical Free Church in Calgary was serving with us in Ixtapaluca. Good times! And here they are at the community centre in the community of Jesús María, teaching English – head and shoulders, knees and toes, as I recall – well, here in the picture it’s eyes.
For more about what the time was doing (and a toes picture!), just go to English/Canada Class.
Two very common things in Mexico.
First, the famous nopuntia (sometimes called prickly pear), in Mexico known as the nopal, a type of cactus, with its fruit. You can eat the cactus, and you can eat the fruit, and you’ve seen it on the Mexican flag.
Next, Mexican doves (also known as Inca doves). We see them all the time, and hear them when we can’t see them.
So these aren’t necessarily the “memories” that we usually have in the retro posts, but these pictures were indeed taken ten years ago. I love the fact that the doves can look so peaceful in what is such a prickly place for the rest of us!
I just had to share these classics from 2010.
So we had an event for Independence Day at the Jesús María community centre, with lots of activities. The first picture shows you-know-who with our friend David Gomez, who served with us in Jesús María (and is now a missionary in Uruguay).
The second picture is, of course, Hannah and Nathanael, same day, at the community centre.
Every Tuesday night, for 15 weeks, they crammed into the small room that we used to meet as a church. On the 24th of August, 2010, we finally finished the Chronological Bible Study – the first time I taught it. We took this picture to celebrate – what a lot of memories in these faces!
The theme of the final study is “The Triumph of the Lamb”.
On this day in 2010, exactly ten years ago, Nathanael was graduating with his kindergarten class (K3). This was his last year attending Elizabeth Catelett Kindergarten in Ixtapaluca (named after the American/Mexican artist).
I have lots of pictures and video from that night, including some with his mortarboard, but this is one of my favourites. I think he was walking across the stage to receive his diploma.
There were a lot of baking class pictures from June 2010, and I saw that Google Photos made this lovely collage, so I thought I’d just post this. So here we are – baking classes – looks like apple pie! – from ten years ago today. (I guess Shari was taking the pictures – I don’t see her!)
