Easter

Easter here is long, in fact it's still going on until Sunday April 11th. They celebrate it for a week here. There are many decorations up still around Bosco Boys for Easter and people walk around everyday saying, "Happy Easter" to each other. The celebration started Saturday night with a mass that started outside with a huge bonfire, 4 HOUR mass!, 18 children being baptized, and has continued everyday with a morning mass.


This is Br. Richard acting as Abraham who is sacrificing his son Isaac. They acted out this story during church and they did a great job. One of the little boys acted like a goat and made a "aaaaaaaaaeeeeehhhh" noise which made everyone laugh.

This is a small fountain/pond the Salesians have in their residence garden where they performed the baptisms. It was funny to see some of the kids resist a bit because of their fear of being under water.

The priests of Bosco Boys and the children who were baptized in their all white suits/dresses.

On our way to Easter Sunday Mass

Mural on the outside of the wall of the church in the Kuwinda Slum. "Don Bosco guiding children on a path towards Jesus"

The church was full so some kids had to stand outside, we were late so we stood outside too.

Ok, so our friend Gil from Belgium has been telling us about this popular television show in Belgium about inventions. One person from the show won once because of this sandwich spread she made. It is the taste of ginger bread cookies in a paste (creamy peanut butter consistency). Well Gil's mom and her boyfriend are visiting here for two weeks. She brought with her a jar of Speculoos and it is so delicious. It is like candy and all of the volunteers ate the jar within a few hours (we were being courteous too, only taking a little by a little). If anyone in America has ever seen this at a grocery store BUY IT! Also let us know so when we come back we can get some as well... So the woman who was on the tv show who created this, apparently is now a millionaire because it's all people eat in Belgium.