Eating by Candle light

Picture 2: (Again this is for my Photo project) One is with a flash and the other is how it actually looked while we ate.

This is a photo of part of my family (From the Left Maria Noel, Norma, and Egardo) while we ate "outside" or on the "backporch" tonight by candle light. We called it a Romantic Dinner, and as romantic as candle light is it sometimes is not quite as good as artificial lights. However, tonight we had no choice. The electricty went out around 6:30. It was still light out, but by the time supper rolled around at 9:30.

I had my refelcetion class today and we talked alot about how laied back their culture is. While I haven't quite formulated a good blog about this yet there is one thing i can say... when the Unexpected happens the routine in the United States and in Argentina is quite similar.

When Lucia and I returned from our run in the park, that Im going to call "Mini Iowa," Norma greeted me with a kiss on the cheek and said "Welcome to Latin America." I felt just at home though. I told her this kind of thing happens all the time in Iowa as well. Snow days, Ice days: no electricty from storms is something I would say I'm fairly used to.


At home and here, this gives EVERYONE the PERFECT excuse to NOT do homework. "Well I can't do my howework now!" Was the first thing Lucia said to me, with a smile, when we came out of our rooms. These little unexpected things gives us an excuse to not travel into town or go to that meeting that we REALLY didnt want to go to in the first place. We can now put off for tomorrow, because it CANT be done today, and go to bed early!

While at home we may "freak out a bit more." We may get on our land-lines or cell phones and call to make sure we are not the only ones with out power. Then we sometimes stress about what will happen next or if we miss that appointment, how long untill we can use the computer again? Here however I didnt see that. It was a chance for them to call thier neighbors and chat, and we sat on the back porch and looked up at those stars see far too seldom here.

Eitherway, I think some of the best of times and conversations come from the unplanned and unexpected. Who would have thought I would eat dinner by candle light at 9:30pm. I didnt :)