Language School Sneak Peak

This week, Maria (my teacher) and I get to have our lessons on the third story of the school, AKA: the roof. It's great because it's quieter and because there's a pretty amazing view of Guatemala. It's bad because your flashcards fly away into the streets of Antigua, or because this happens:

We then spent about 15 minutes laughing and trying to put it back together before the owner of the language school came up there to see what we were doing. We finished our afternoon classes in a coffee shop...

Hoping for less wind tomorrow!

Estoy en Guatemala

        I am back in Central America! My week in the U.S. was wonderful, and so incredibly busy. I was able to see tons of people that I love, finish moving out of my apartment, go to my (pseudo)cousin’s wedding, and be part of the wedding of two of my best friends. After that whirlwind trip, I’m now in Antigua, Guatemala, to hopefully learn some more Spanish.

          Today was my second day of class, and I feel like it’s going really well. My teacher’s name is Maria Elena, and she is teaching me so much! We laugh a lot, which I love even though it is almost always at the expense of the dumb things that I say. We played memory yesterday with Spanish flashcards, so obviously what’s not to love?

Antigua is a very cool city. There is so much to look at! David Brown (friend from Huntsville) is here with me, and he is basically my English-speaking tour guide. We are staying with a Guatemalan family who cooks for us, and there are 3 other students in the house right now. There is a guy from Denmark, one girl from Germany, and one girl from New Zealand. They are some of the most interesting people I have ever met, and they have definitely given me the contagious desire to travel the world. (Which I suppose will have to wait until I have a paying job again!)

Ok, I just walked downstairs before I posted the blog and had to add this. As I walked by the grandfather of this house who was urinating in their courtyard area, I couldn’t help but wonder.. Seriously, do any Latin American men relieve themselves in an actual bathroom?! I probably shouldn’t put that on my blog… But it’s a valid question. 

2 Cor. 12:9

I can't believe I'm coming home tomorrow! This five or six week visit has flown by. I'm sad to leave, but I'm SO excited to be surrounded by people that speak English! And I'm already excited to come back and get busy again. I've had a couple of meetings and conversations with my "bosses" here, and I'm more excited than ever about the opportunities that God is going to open up. It has become more and more evident that I am unqualified for so many things that need to be done here, but I am so blessed that God is letting me be part of it! He tells us that with Him all things are possible, and I am so grateful for that!

I'm going to be redundant with these verses, but they're my favorite, and they're so so relevant for me. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 "But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest in me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

Oh, and just for fun, here's a picture of my future baby translating genius: