Day 19

Today was interesting in many aspects. Hopefully that will come through in this attempt.

It all started off with mass again at the neighborhood church. During vacation from school, the girls attend mass every day at 8am. I felt aches in every muscle again, and was getting very skeptical as to whether or not I was ever going to get better. The long walk there and back did not help with the problem.

Afterwards Chris and I made a trek over to the US to retrieve necessary paperwork for crossing materials that we had left on accident. Afterwards we went to the mall to walk around in rememberance of our past life as Americans. It was less than as fulfilling as I had hoped it would be. We also went to the post office to check the PO Box the Madres have for collecting donations and help from the US. All in all it was nice to be back to nice roads and easy living, but I started to miss Mexico minutes after crossing over.

Texas A&M International University is located in Laredo. I was curious so I toured the campus before heading back. It was incredibly interesting. The buildings were very nice, the campus was quite large, and deer grazed on campus like squirrels do in College Station. I´m not sure exactly why, but being there made me feel really good on the inside. I guess it says something for the Aggie spirit. I was somewhere so different and relatively far away, yet still felt like I was at home with the maroon and white, the Texas A&M insignia, and the Block T stickers everywhere.

After the quick tour we stopped by for fireworks for the girls tomorrow. Even though I´ll be out of country, I´ll still be celebrating July 4th. Hopefully anyways - we will need to get permission from the Madres first.

Crossing back was no problem and returning to the orphanage was nice. I worked on the gazebo until the rain came, showered, and passed out.

Tomorrow will be fun, and I WILL be well.