"Yesterday"

It's finally starting to warm up. . .I even went around in short sleeves yesterday!

The Spanish is getting better little by little. It helps that Caryn and I have been trying to spend more time with Carola, a woman who lives just down the block who speaks English and has time in the morning to hang out and do little Spanish and cooking lessons. Her son is marrying a former volunteer in December, so she's pretty used to having gringas around and understands what's hard for us to learn and what words are difficult for us to pronounce.

Today at Mass the choir was singing as usual. However, Caryn pointed out that something was a little weird. They were singing their hymn to the tune of "Blowing in the Wind" by Bob Dylan. We stifled our laughter and figured it was just a coincidence. Later in the afternoon there was a large church procession that we attended. Everyone met at their respective parishes and chapels and then joined a procession that ended in the park of the nearby neighborhood for an open-air Mass with the bishop, which we hadn't originally intended to attend. Anyways, about halfway through the Mass the choir begins singing, and I look at Caryn, and this time there was no hope for stifling laughter. The song "Holy, Holy" was being sung to the tune of "Yesterday" by The Beatles. Even all of the Chileans standing nearby were laughing, as most of them could recognize the song. It was absolutely hilarious. . .and Caryn and I now know that indeed, we will continue to hear church songs to the tune of pop music from the States.