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We arrived at the Youth With a Mission base today where we will be doing a 6 month “Discipleship Training School”. We’re all still settling in. There are 19 students from all over the world including France, Spain, Portugal, Peru, Sweden, Canada and England, the U.S., and Melilla (a Spanish enclave in Morocco).

We’re living in community in a four-story apartment building. In our apartment are 8 or 9 of us. We have our own room, but will share two toilets and one shower with everyone else.

Tomorrow will start with a walk into the center of town for a special Spanish breakfast of Chocolate and Churros – a typical high sugar, high-calorie, low-nutrient rich breakfast. Hopefully “the bean” and I can opt for something less-sugary and more healthy.

Strangely (yet acceptably) I’ve lost any desire for chocolate. I’ll eat it if it’s covering caramel or something else or if it’s in milk, but otherwise, the loads of it that I got for Christmas are still sitting in the suitcase.

I may have felt my first contraction today. I had been pretty hard-core unpacking (lots of bending) and suddenly it felt tight – no pain, but weird.

There is only one community computer here, and currently there are 6 people in line to use it; thankfully, Samuel and I are hooked up separately, and I think are the envy of many. I suppose I should offer mine to the next in line – I should get in the shower when it’s available anyway.

Hasta luego!

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