Language School Is Fun but Hard

I haven't taken my camera with me to school yet but will one day and get a picture of our room and teacher. The building is nice and well kept but they still have the old brass speaking tubes in the walls and tiny brass door peepholes.

We are really enjoying our class time with our teacher and not only learning language but also learning about culture and getting to know Senhora Isabel personally. Mike and Sarah (our friends and fellow team members) are the only other students in the class and it is an encouragement to share time like this together.

Today is Saturday and right now Don and I should be studying language, but we are sitting on the couch trying to get a lot of things on the to-do list done. (There are people we know who are at the beach for the day!) We have set up Skype on my computer, Don is working on a monthly report (very frustrated right now with Word), and we keep thinking of the things we have not done yet but really need to have in process - like applications for the monthly metro card, the library card, the car toll pass...

Anyway, about the language - after two weeks of school we are understanding some things but realize that it is going to be a long time before we will be able to communicate in Portuguese! We will continue with the school that we are in for another month and then we will transfer over to a university for their semester class. It will at least be a shorter metro ride ; ) Still, we ask you to pray for perseverance and understanding!