Hello all! What a crazy/exciting/awesome/frustrating/amazing week this has been for the both of us (I'm sure for my parents too). Our host family (The Parkers) are SUPER nice and we already feel at home here. The first weekend was fairly laid back as we got settled in and learned all about Palabra da Vida (Word of Life) and what they are all about. Along with that, some sort of crazy festival is going on not too far from where we are staying so needless to say sleeping tends to happen more during the day (I kid you not, they set off fireworks allll night).
On monday I went to help out with a new house they are building on campus while Tory helped sort books in the library. Today we set out to get our Yellow Fever vacines at the local clinic and then soon got back to work.
So far the biggest speedbump for me has been the language barrier, seeing as I dont know a lick of Portugese. While on the construction site I met a cool guy but we couldn't communicate at all seeing as we both knew minimal amounts of each other's language. At one point I wasn't sure if he was inviting me over for a game of basketball or telling me that I was painting the wrong wall. But other than that, the trip has been (refer to begining adjectives). Thank you for reading my rant!
-Charles Starr
Your welcome.
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