January 15 – 20ish
hey yall
its been a while since my last post. I've been living with a family in San Pedro, so it was hard to get to a computer. Living in the Spanish homes was a great experience, but i have to admit that its really nice to be back home. I was surprised how hard it was to live with so many people and not being able to communicate properly. Usually after a lot of grunting, hand motions and some clever impersonations, we could understand each other. I'd love to tell you how many people lived in my house and what their names where but i have no idea. As far as i could figure out, three families and a bunch of friends all share houses, babysitting and cooking together. So it was always a guess as to which house to go to for food. At night I would go to bed and there would be a certain set of people in the house, and when I woke up there would be another set. They tried to tell who everybody was and which kid belonged to whom, but i never did figure it out.
The house was about a 15 - 20 min walk to the school, and we had to make three trips back and forth a day, which usually was a good thing because on the way is a place called a paneria. They sell these fresh baked pastries called pandulce that works out to 15 cents Canadian each. I might even gain some weight.
So we also finished our first week of regular school at the campus. In the mornings we have New Testament Survey class which has been interesting, even though i've already covered a lot of it in high school. Then we would go home for lunch and come back for Spanish class. Spanish has been slow going, especially since were working through a program called destinos. We start with a half-hour movie about some really hip 90's soap opera that teaches the very basics.
Yesterday we learned to count.
The class has been great for my self asteem, but other than that….
Anyways, im off for a nap in my hammock.
hey yall
its been a while since my last post. I've been living with a family in San Pedro, so it was hard to get to a computer. Living in the Spanish homes was a great experience, but i have to admit that its really nice to be back home. I was surprised how hard it was to live with so many people and not being able to communicate properly. Usually after a lot of grunting, hand motions and some clever impersonations, we could understand each other. I'd love to tell you how many people lived in my house and what their names where but i have no idea. As far as i could figure out, three families and a bunch of friends all share houses, babysitting and cooking together. So it was always a guess as to which house to go to for food. At night I would go to bed and there would be a certain set of people in the house, and when I woke up there would be another set. They tried to tell who everybody was and which kid belonged to whom, but i never did figure it out.The house was about a 15 - 20 min walk to the school, and we had to make three trips back and forth a day, which usually was a good thing because on the way is a place called a paneria. They sell these fresh baked pastries called pandulce that works out to 15 cents Canadian each. I might even gain some weight.
So we also finished our first week of regular school at the campus. In the mornings we have New Testament Survey class which has been interesting, even though i've already covered a lot of it in high school. Then we would go home for lunch and come back for Spanish class. Spanish has been slow going, especially since were working through a program called destinos. We start with a half-hour movie about some really hip 90's soap opera that teaches the very basics.
Yesterday we learned to count.
The class has been great for my self asteem, but other than that….
Anyways, im off for a nap in my hammock.
The pictures are of my family in San Pedro.
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