Our first week of Language school has been excellent. We arrived last Sunday afternoon and moved into our room. We´re staying with an Antiguan family that leaves right in the heart of the city 3 blocks from the school. They´re upper middle class by Guatemalan standards. We have our own room and bathroom. Senora Sandra cooks us three meals a day and normally at least a 2 of their 4 sons join us during the meals. Our daily schedule looks like this...
6am to 8am=wake up, shower, QTs, Breakfast
8am to 12pm=one on one spanish lessons with our teachers
1pm=lunch with our host family
2pm to 7pm=study spanish on our own, attend events at the school, (soon) volunteer with SI
7pm=dinner with our host family
8pm to 10pm=study and free time
God has blessed us because we have met several friends since we´ve been here. One family is going to run an orphanage here in Antigua and they´re studying Spanish for 6 months at our school. They´re in their late 20s and have 3 kids. We´ve gone over to their place several times to hang out and play games. They love to play Settlers of Catan!!
Learning a new language is proving to be a difficult task. Our comprehension of Spanish has already improved dramatically. If someone speaks fairly slowly or if we´re reading Spanish, we can pick up at least the main ideas. Speaking is proving to be much more difficult, but we´re learning poco a poco.
The city is very nice but there is a siginificant amount of poverty. In a few interactions Caroline and I have had with some of these people our hearts were just broken with their situations. One man is severely disabled and spends his entire day picking food out of the trash in the park. We´ve never once seen him beg for money though...It was heartbreaking to watch, but a reminder of why we´re here in the first place. We can wait to be in the DR serving people like this.
If you´d like to call us while we´re here we bought a Go phone...
The number is 011 502 53776038.
As soon as we can find a place with faster internet we´ll post some pictures
His,
Ryan and Caroline
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