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This morning I had previously arranged to work Brother Emmanual in the english Oaxaca congregation. The territory is quite large and especially for the english speaking congregation, so that often means alot of traveling time is involved to get from one end of the territory to the other. We had fun witnessing in a nice part of Oaxaca with clean cemento roads and tidier looking homes. We were covering the territory looking for people who were not previously at home and who spoke english. We didn’t find anyone except a man who’s girl friend spoke english (she wasn’t at home), so we left the latest Awake & Watchtower magazines.

The guys were all going to play basketball with other brothers in the congregation at 4pm. I decided to have a rest because I felt like I hadn’t stopped since leaving Puerto Escondido. So I walked into town (the central part of Oaxaca city) to go to the internet shop and also have a look around the city square. Its such a maze of streets that all look the same from almost every angle, I managed to get lost several times walking back to forrest place… having to back track down streets and try another in hope of finding one more familiar. Its a beautiful city and I love the old architecture of the buildings and streets. It has the feeling of history mixed with third world modern age Mexican civilization fermenting beneath its outward skin of stone blocks and busy streets.

I chilled in the afternoon watching DVD’s on forrests laptop computer. The guys got home from the basketball game late in the afternoon. By which time we were ready to eat the rear quarter off the nearest stray Oaxacan dog… and believe me there is plenty of those to be had. So we felt obliged to dine in at a traditional taco restaurant in down town Oaxaca. The food is so cheap and really tastes so good, the quality also is excelent and I haven’t had a bad meal yet.