Another two weeks, and I still don't have everything together. My Spanish is much better, but i'm still finding it difficult to understand people talking to each other. When someone is talking to me I can focus, and move slower with the conversation but when people are talking amongst themselves it's difficult. I just found out today more what the High School Musical thing is about. What we're doing is advertizing for a distribution center. The people in the audience are coming from all of the other branches of the distribution company. Our show will be filmed and made into a national television commercial to advertise the products of the distributor. There are branches in Costa Rica, Mexico, and all of Central America, so people from all over will be watching us, but we are so bad that I have no idea what's going to happen. Tomorrow we will practice in front of the owner of the distribution center and hopefully we will do well? Anyways, we have two days until the show and we have a lot to improve.
In other news, my work with the school in La Chureca is going well. Today I helped kids between 9 and 12 with math, as well as helped with the painting of a mural. I met a girl who has been living in Nicaragua for the past 10 years with her family. They have been working with the school for three years and have built a rescue home for some of the girls whose families are either abusive or unable to care for them. I want to talk about the possibility of a home like that for boys in similar situations, but I don't know if that will happen. I will hopefully get to get really involved there, with the families and everything, through Melissa and her family as well as through the directors of the school.
I'm trying to get my motorcycle license this week or next and buy a moped to help me get from place to place. It takes me a long time to get from my house to the dump everyday, because, even though it's only 20 minutes from my house, there is no convenient bus route. I talked with the directors, and they thing it's the best thing to do.
I met a christian girl at my job at the English school, and through her I got involved with a college age christian group somewhat like Campus Crusade. They had a psychologist from the states come and talk about how to grow in relationships through conflict and counselling in a Godly way. He was a really cool guy, here with his daughter and some other psychologists, and tomorrow I'm going to attend his lecture at a university near my house.
That's it for now, I have to go but if anyone wants to talk to me, just comment on one of the blog posts and I'll respond whenever I find the time.
Until next time...
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hey I was wondering how you got into this program because I would love to do it this summer. Also how much spanish do you have to know in order to go there, or can u just become fluent by being around it
alex, i'm actually not with any program, i just came on my own. I came before on three trips with different organizations, Frontier Horizon, Orphan Network, and Nicaraguan Orphan Fund. I came here for this trip already knowing a good number of Nicaraguan people, which made it much easier for me to come alone. If you want to get involved in serving, there are so many places to jump into. Spanish is not essential, but I think it would be a lot more worthwile if you knew at least a little before coming down. I came with a little Spanish, and now after a month and a half I've gotten to the point where I can communicate decently. I think after three solid months of being immersed in spanish i'll be pretty fluent. feel free to email me with any questions you have, i'd be happy to answer... resteasy@vt.edu.
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