This past week has been full of many awesome adventures and experiences! I was able to help put on a baby shower for my friend Rebecca, who is due with her second child in the next couple weeks. I was able to plan the games for the shower, which was totally awesome because I had like 80 year old women eating candy out of diapers trying to guess the what the mashed up candy was inside! The more amazing part was that some of the women said that they really had an awesome time taking part in the games! I guess you are never to old to eat strange looking things in strange situations!
At the baby shower I was talking with my friend, Sofia, and we were talking about the fact that through her husbands work she always gets free tickets to concerts but can never go because she has a young baby so she ends up giving the tickets away. She started naming off the tickets that she had given away.... Shakira, Lady Gaga, and other people that I didn't really care about but then she said....Michael Buble!! I quickly replied with, "Why did you give those away!?! We could have gone to the concert together!!" I was completely joking when I said this but a couple days later I got a phone call from her saying that her most amazing husband, Sam, had gotten two more tickets to Buble and wanted to know if I still wanted to go! Of course, I quickly said yes!!!! So we were off to see the most Beautiful Canadian then next day!!! Here is the deal...Michael Buble might be amazing on CD but times that by a million trillion and that isn't close to his amazingness in concert!
During the concert Michael told us about his new found love for Portugal and it was especially cool because we were attending his final concert on his tour! It was also very emotional for one of his band members who is Portuguese and still has family here in Portugal, it was like a homecoming for the musician and he was very emotional when the crowd erupted knowing that there was a Portuguese man on stage!
The next day, I decided that I would finally go get my bus pass. So, I fixed my hair put on an extra cute outfit and headed to Campo Grande to get my bus pass. I got there filled out the paperwork, took the ID picture and went and to turn in my paper work but, first, I was at the wrong station to get a fast tracked pass and second, I forgot my passport!! I seriously never forget my passport but I had been switching between bags so much this past week that I simply forgot my passport in one of them. I was so frustrated with myself but decided to continue into Lisbon anyways.
I finally got to go to the Fado museum! Which was super amazing! I got to learn about where Fado started and how it has transformed to what it is today. There was also a station where you could read bios of Fado greats and listen to some of their recorded music. You could also watch recorded performances of Fado singers. I went a little crazy in the gift shop and ended up buying three books. The first is called, The Soul of Fado and is about the history of Fado and it is in Portuguese and English, so I justified it by saying that it would help me with the language and the culture! The second, Fadária, is a book with many different Fado lyrics in it and a recording of some of the songs. The last book, Roteiro de Fado de Lisboa, is a book that gives a little info about Fado in Lisbon and also current locations of Fado houses and a price range for how much it is to eat at the houses.
My week was capped off with an amazing weekend at a retreat, Encontro de Jovens com Cristo, which simply translates into Youth Encounter. Basically all I can say was that the weekend was amazing and was a great evangelical tool to allow non-Christians to come into a non-threatening environment and learn about Jesus. I can't tell you what exactly happened during the weekend because if I did...I would have to kill you. Seriously, though, they do ask that we do not talk about what exactly happened during the weekend so to respect that I will not share anything with you even if you asked me in person...desculpe, sorry. I really want to try and do a youth encounter in the states but to do it I would have to have a bunch of Portuguese people to come to the states to help put it on because, see, you can only help put it on if you have participated in it.
Tomorrow I am hopefully going to finally get my bus pass and hopefully go into Lisboa to the aquarium!
That is all I have for you now....
Peace out!
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