Talking to Jesus.

Today we did this really awesome thing in training as part of a mock activity that one of my fellow trainees prepared. Everyone had to name someone they admired (like someone famous, not your mom. Specifically not YOUR mom, but also not anyone else's) and then we had to pretend we were on a talk show and each of us was the person that we had said we admired, and we took turns interviewing each other. Guess who I got to interview?

JESUS! No joke, someone said they admire Jesus in a classroom setting, and those are the true benefits of living in a super Catholic country, although he's not Catholic, he's Anglican and a Catholic probably wouldn't say Jesus, but anyway, it rocked.

I asked him, you know, what you'd ask Jesus. Things like "what do you think the status of humanity is in the year 2006? have we gotten better or worse?" and "what exactly is it that you do all day?" and "hey, you've got a big holiday coming up this weekend, whatcha gonna do?"

When it was all over (trust me Jesus gave some boring answers) a couple of people commented on how i was a good interviewer. that made me laugh. i said i'd had a little bit of practice at it and then looked at the floor which i think either made me look shy or cocky. I'm leaning towards cocky.

On a related note, it's 'semana santa' here in Chile, better known as the ENTIRE WEEK before easter during which - I have just realized - I will not be allowed to eat meat. This is sad for several reasons. One, it makes me realize that I have no control over my meals, two, I like meat and three it reminds me that I might be forced to go to church this weekend, and frankly I think interviewing Jesus and asking him what he does all day is more than enough religion for the year. I should certainly be exempt from actually having to attend church. Someone please back me up on this.