Just wanted to write a quick note saying that I am officially in Guatemala and everything is going great! I got in late Sunday night after a week-long farewell tour in Wheaton, and ate dinner and had coffee (a first...) with my host that night. My host is great, she loves cooking for me and she is used to having a lot more students so we talk a lot. Her spanish is very very fast but she is usually good about helping me if I am struggling to understand. I wake up around 630 every day and have breakfast at 7 and then out the door around 740 for school. School is great it is basically a 1 on 1 tutoring session from 8-1. It seems long and I was a little nervous about that but it actually goes by really fast. I can see a huge improvement already after a couple days. I come home from lunch, take a nap because by this point I am exhausted, and then head back to school to study/use the free internet for an hour or 2 before dinner at 6. Dinner is generally pretty long and after it I usually go to my room for the night and study/do homework, do my quiet times, and go to sleep EARLY. It is actually really nice to not have distractions and just be able to slow down at night.
Very long and narrow streets that all look the same...
There are 2 other kids alive missionaries at the school with me and they have been here for a week and were already way past my spanish level so it is good to have them here. We walked a little bit through the city and I bought a real cheap cell phone that is easy to use to talk to people in the states if they use a calling card. I am transitioning just fine and as long as I don't get sick or anything I think this is going to be a great 5 weeks in Guatemala. I am really wishing I was fluent, but realize that it is a process. Hopefully by the end of 5 weeks I will be good enough to communicate in the DR. Still working on getting videos on the blog, I am surprised enough that I was able to get pictures on here. It is really my first time having a camera, and today on my walk to school I decided to use it a little bit.
My school
Pray for:
- my transition to continue smoothly
- my allergies to stop acting up at the house and for mosquitoes to stop biting me in bed
- my spanish to keep progressing
- safety and health (my teacher told me that since it is a fairly small town the police have it under control and it is very safe, which was good to hear)
Email me at Kyle.Bradley@my.wheaton.edu I would love to hear from you.
I will definitely pray for your mosquito bites :) love you bro ha!
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ReplyDeleteQuise decirle que soy mejor en espanol que usted jamas sera. Soy un campeon. Usted no es. Soy el mejor. Usted es el peor. Diviertase. Yo le veré en Navidad. Si usted se pregunta si o no escribí esto en un traductor de spansh. La Respuesta es sí.
i love picturing you, the giant in mini-guatemala, walking around trying to work a camera. small electronics aren't really your forte, at least not in my opinion. love you!
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