First Day in Córdoba!

Bienvenidos de Argentina! After a five hour and a seven hour flight we landed in Córdoba around 1am, (midnight eastern time) met up with Will Herndon, our missionary host, and arrived to our hotel at 2:30. After a short five hour rest we were up and at breakfast in order to leave for our first game of the week against a club called Instituto. Our field for this game consisted of a small filled-turf field which was a little smaller than half of our hockey field. Instituto hockey was only established two years ago so a lot of their player were new to the game. We split our team into two teams and played 7v7 against their two teams. During the games, Coach BK used her awesome Spanish skills to get the conversation going between our two teams! We finished our day with a 9v9 game, and afterwards Will presented a gospel message to the whole group! Since Instituto is not associated with a single school, the girls (and two guys!) ranged in ages from 16 to 26! After the game, we all ate hamburgers together for lunch and were able to talk to Instituto in a mix of Spanish and English. They loved taking Snapchat selfies with us and taking videos of us trying to speak in Spanish. :) We were able to sing songs for them and they sang songs for us, and it was an amazing time of fellowship and bonding with these girls and guys! When we returned to the hotel from Instituto we took full advantage of Seista (nap time!) At six we met back up and did some shopping in the flea market close to our hotel. So we knocked out gift shopping out very early in the week! I know I had a lot of fun speaking to the vendors in Spanish and helping the other girls translate! The exchange rate is about 15 Pesos to 1 American dollar, so it felt strange exchanging a 100 Peso bill for a small gift. Also, in Argentina it's very common to eat dinner at 11 pm, so while we were eating around 9 the restaurant was dead. However, when we left around 10:30, the restaurant was beginning to fill up! Now we're back at the hotel, and tomorrow is sight-seeing in Córdoba! Thanks for reading the blog, please keep praying that we have saftey and are great ambassadors of Christ and for field hockey! Buenos noches! :)

-Taylor Holt