Whew, what a crazy past few days! Backing up a few days, Saturday after Becca returned from puking all over down town San Jose, I went to our pastor's house to have worship practice. The worship team realized that I sing and play guitar and they wanted me to help if I wanted. So I did go and it was a good eye opener once again of how little Spanish we know. Being out of the classroom setting, hearing a very comforable and relaxed type of vocab at our pastors house, I found myself concentrating real hard to mantain involvement. This isn't to say that I was lost, I wasn't, it was just the real world. I didn't have teachers speaking every word real clear and deliberately. But it was a good time.
Later that night I was slated to have a "guys night out" at the school to watch the Final Four basketball games, but CBS happened to be cut off that day. Go figure! (We ended up having our guys night out last night, Monday, and watched the championship game.)
So Sunday rolled along and I helped with worship at church, and then we actually left a bit early, so that we could make it to another pre-planned engagement. We have an Austrailian friend at school and I guess they are really into Formula 1 car racing in Australia. This race just happened to be in Melborne, Australia and having never sat and watched 5 minutes of a Formula 1 race, I found it really fun. They last only a little over an hour long (not like NASCAR) and there are lots of good crashes!!! It was a good time. It was interesting all the sub-cultures we had at that get together. We had the Aussie and his family, a British family, and us. How different could a bunch of English speakers be...it was interesting, but a blast.
These past two days have been turning out like the last few weeks. Go to school and be bored, come home and see what's new in the VISA process today, and then try to fix or get whatever is needed. It has really been wearing on us, but I think we are getting close. (I've been saying that for a while...) Continue to pray with us that we would not only get our VISA for Ecuador, but get them this week. You see, next week is holy week. In Latin America, everything shuts down for about 10 days. No one works, everyone plays, ect, ect, ect. So if our VISA's don't get done this week, we have to wait until two weeks from now, which will be about 1 week away from our departure date to Ecuador. That's kinda cutting it close, BUT..., God has called us to this work. He will provide what we need to do it, He ALWAYS has!
Tommoro we have our Conversation class finals. I am doing my theme on the first time I took Becca flying. For those of you who know the story, you know it is pretty funny, and a testament to the Lord's ongoing protection.
Today I had to run and pay the electricity bill, and buy a few groceries. I took Brooklyn along for the fun of it. It ended up being a good time. She likes going and having the little responsibilities that I give her. She got to push the grocery cart today (a minature one of course) and that just makes her day. She really feels like a big girl. When we were at the checkout counter, the man in front of us asked us if we were Canadian. Of course I said no. We are usually taken as Germans, for being so big and blonde I guess. One thing is for sure, We are not going to be learning German, or any other language soon. Spanish is hard enough!!!
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