Looking for a new "hip" phrase to add to your vocabulary? Well, look no further. "Que Padre" is probably the phrase I have heard the most since I have been in Mexico. It is used to mean "how cool, how pretty, how neat, how big, how strange, how interesting, etc." As you can see it is a really useful, and popular, phrase to add to your vocabulary!
Because it is the first week of classes the UNAM has lots of "fun" things going on on campus. Today there was some sort of "field day" with lots of games and activities. One of the activities was Salsa dance lessons (see picture below). They were way "padre" and I just had to participate! ...I mean, I all about embracing the culture when I can.
Today I was given my first tour of the UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico). This university has 120,000 students. My "tour guide", Karina, is one of the students from the RUF group. Karina is pictured above. During our "tour" we also posted lots of flyers about our up coming English Club meetings. The English Club meets twice a week and offers FREE English classes taught by us "gringos" (the term for white people). These meetings are a way for us to meet and build relationships with students from the university that we otherwise would never come into contact with. The long term goal is to connect them to RUF and share our faith with them.
As we toured the campus and put up flyers, Karina shared her testimony with me. She is one of seven children and still lives where her parents in the city. She is very close with her family. About a year and a half ago she became the first (and only) Christian in her family. When I asked her what led her to Christ, she said "I went to English Club and met other students from RUF. They were just different than any other religious people and I wanted to know more."
How exciting it was to be post flyers about English Club with a girl who became a Christian through that very ministry!
