This morning we had french toast, scrambled eggs, and spinach, the kids nearly revolted when they saw the spinach. We went to the same church as last week. I think the worship music is helping me learn more Spanish. At the start of service, a young man walked up to us and asked if he could translate for me. Now I didn’t move here for six months so people could translate for me the entire time, and I feel guilty about another person not being able to concentrate on the sermon. I am able to understand about 5% right now, and the idea of having a guy translate for me didn’t appeal to me at all. Child 1 was in my ear most of the worship telling me what most of the words meant, it always blows my mind that my children are bilingual.
After the service, he walked up to me and started speaking English, quite well. He is an English teacher here, and is also a kind of youth group leader. He really wants to practice his English, so I think next week I’ll allow him to translate for me.
Tomorrow Bonnie is heading into the down town to meet with the public school district in order to start the enrollment for our kids. We have a second private school meeting tomorrow in the afternoon to discuss our goals for the next six months, but just in case the private school doesn’t enroll the kids, we need a back up. We came home and had leftovers from the last few restaurants we have gone to. I sincerely think I’m losing weight, because even though there is a small little store across the street from our house, there is no fast food, and I would eat fast food once a day back home. I don’t even have a craving for it. The owner of the store is named Jorge, and every time I walk into the store he says ” Hi George”, I think it’s the only English he knows.
Above is the view from our front door to the right. You can see the store to the left, and the mountains in the distance. There are three little restaurants within walking distance from our door, and you can barely see it but to the right, there is a small parking lot, luckily we don’t need it because we have a garage.
The above photo is what we see when we walk outside and look left. If the kids go to the private school we want them to go to, then we will walk them up this hill a half mile, and then walk them another half mile to the school. There are a couple dozen little street food vendors on the way, and other shops.
This is the front of the house we are living at. Sadly we are right next to a notary public. In this country, only lawyers can be notary publics, so… not a huge fan of our neighbor. After dinner we made the kids go to bed early.
Reading a story before heading to bed. The kids weren’t excited about going to bed early, but they brought it on themselves today.
Our Family Adventure 