YOU ARE READING

Love, Novela [Completed]

General Fiction

If soul mates really exist, does that mean you are supposed to be with them? Even if it means turning your back on your family and friends, values and beliefs? Novela is a journalism and Latin American Studies double-major spending a semester in Gua...

#adultfic #christian #college #confession #contemporary #darkacademia #doomedlove #epistolary #forbidden #ghosts #guadalajara #haunted #literary #mexico #newadult #newadultreads #professor #spiritual #studyabroad #travel

Re: Going for a ride

89 7 2

by aloisahart

by aloisahart

From: novela-harmon@bethel.edu
Date: Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 5:22 PM
Subject: Going for a ride
To: grace-k-nelson@bethel.edu

I got an email from Javier. He suggested Thursday would be a good day for a ride, since it's not supposed to rain and I won't have class. He said maybe we could go to Tonalá. It's supposed to be interesting, and I haven't been there yet, so that would be good.

I had noticed before on the schedule that there was no class this Thursday, although I only just found out why. It's called the "Romería." It's a kind of pilgrimage where they carry the "Virgin of Zapopan" from the Cathedral in Guadalajara to the Basilica of Zapopan to spend the rest of the year. It's a little statue of the virgin, I think some manifestation of the Virgin Mary, and it's the patron saint of Guadalajara.

I kind of wanted to go see the Romería since it's so different than anything we have and it's such a big deal in Guadalajara. I'm not sure about asking Javier though, since there seems to be such antagonism between Catholics and Protestants here. I guess it wouldn't hurt to ask. If he says no, a motorcycle ride to Tonalá on a nice day is not a bad backup.

Talk to you soon.

Love, Novela