Today we spent the morning speaking with English classes in Ponteverdra. The Director's name is Diego. The teacher's name is Mercedes. We spoke with 12 year olds. They asked good questions and we had a fun time with them. They chose the rose picture.
We also had a great time talking to the teachers. The teachers were quite interested in picking pictures too. They took the water drops with our farm in them and the circle flowers.
Then we walked to Barro. We met a group of fellow pilgrims that lived in Caruna north of Santiago and had taken a bus to Tui and were walking home. We took a picture of them with us and they had someone with them from Uraguay. His knee was hurting him a lot. They were expecting to sleep at the Barro Albergue. But we never saw them again.
We arrived at Barro only to find the albergue closed for construction. We talked to several people. We got to a place in the road and we din't know where to go, and the albergue was closed. Eric said, " Do you think we can manifest a miricle before we get to the crossroad up ahead by about 300 yards? Then this woman and her two children com up behind us walking and Eric started talking to her. Eric asked her where the school was. She had a daughter named Irene, 10 yrs. old and a son Mark, 9 yrs. old. They knew Mika, the Director of their school, where we were to speak the next day. They said they would walk us to the school. They were so sweet. Irene held Eric's hand and Mark held mine. We wlked along the road with passing cars going 90 miles a minute and they walked with us to the school.
There were two teachers in the parking lot. We told them we hadn't any place to stay the night because the albergue was closed. They gave us the phone number of the head of the town council of Barro. We called him. His name was San Martin.
He came and opened the albergue just for us because we were going to speak at the school the next day. It was not finished, but we slept on the floor and our sleeping bags kept us quite warm. What a gratious thing to do just for us. We are always lucky. We always find a good place to sleep. Our path is full of miracles. We are very amazed.
It's becoming a way of walking the Path here for us. We have begun to depend on these solutions just coming out of nowhere. We are less and less afraid about our uncertain future.
On to Portas!
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