Too Much To Learn

I was excited about playing guitar in church, but I had practice today and came out less than hopeful. Fifteen minutes is not enough time to learn how to play latin style guitar on songs I have never heard, nor understand. On top of that, they don't have notes like we do in western music. They have a staff, but the notes are not C, B, D, E, F, G, A, and B. Instead they do their music and write their chords with Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do. So you're not playing in the key of F, you're playing in the key of So. They're expecting me to play on Sunday, but I don't really want to. I need more time to practice. Fifteen minutes is not enough time to practice. That's not even half the preliminary time I spent preparing for practice back home. There's no way I can learn these songs. I don't even have a way to listen to them. It is impossible. They don't really have a band at this church. It's a guy playing latin style acoustic and a drummer playing extra extra quiet. Not that it's bad music, but I don't think they really understand playing with other people.

I also had a rough day at Spanish class. I was really tired and couldn't remember anything. It was horrible. Thankfully, there was a huge march today and everything was sort of shut down, so I had some time to come home and sleep for a couple hours. Well, I guess I shouldn't be thankful for the huge march. It's a pretty big deal. They were expecting 30,000 people to march on congress, but there's actually over 100,000 people. Pray for Bolivia and pray for God's peace to be on this city.