A-B-C-D-E-F-G or ah-bay-say-day-eh-efay-hay

We started Spanish lessons with Olga.  She is a very nice lady who has taught Spanish for at least 12 years.  All of the Wisdoms received instruction from her.  They said she doesn’t give up, if she doesn’t get through she tries something else.

She has us divided up in classes of 1 hour each by learning style and previous knowledge of Spanish.  Since our classes are very small, we get great attention from her

We now have had day 2. It is amazing that as adults we are exhausted after we go through the alphabet a few times.  The alphabet?  I have more compassion for little kids and how tired they get at school.  Mental exercise really can make you tired. We all agreed the flesh would rather go out and do some work than to sit and try to memorize words.

Our teacher, Olga, is a Christian so we use the Bible to practice reading and for memorization.  It keeps us encouraged, and will be useful later to know some Spanish scriptures.

We are trying this week to establish team schedules for daily life.  We want to incorporate group devotions and even exercise.  Since many of us are in class and studying we don’t want to become blimps.  We already have divided up the cooking and kitchen chores.

 Soon we will be going out to the church at Llano Verde.  That is the church in a village 6 hours north of here that Clint pastors.  They have been going on without him for the last 2 months and are reportedly doing well.  He is anxious to get back there and encourage them.  Jerry and I have been there before.  Since then, they have gotten electricity I understand.  That will make a big difference.  We won’t need a generator during church services. 

This is the rainy season.  We often have a morning that is warm and sunny, but by noon it starts raining.  It can rain from then until the next am.  Jerry and I are in the back cabin and use rubber boots to go back and forth to the house. This keeps the mud down in the houses.  After Colorado, everything feels very damp to us.  We don’t know if we would think the same if we just came from Washington.

Like Washington, because of the rain, when the sun is out it is very beautiful here.  Palm trees, banana trees, even a grapefruit tree.  There are also many types of flowers.  They are the ones that you would find in an exotic bouquet from the florist.

A couple of other interesting things that have occurred, are a trip to the local farmer's market and separating the 2 trailers.

At the market, we were given lists in Spanish to try and find the produce.  It went well and the farmers were helpful.  It was a very large market going for more than a block in 2 direction.  The procuce was lovely and to us exotic.  Jerry had a cart we brought lose a wheel and dump our watermelons.  A man yelled out in English, "watch out for runaway watermelons!"  They were captured without damage to anyone or them.

Jerry bought these at the market

We had a good time at the farmer's market


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Little trailer inside

 

putting on axles and wheels

You wouldn't think it would fit, huh?

The last step was the fenders and lights.<><><><>

Bananas right out of the field



When we came down, we put a trailer inside of the big trailer.  to make it fit, the fenders, wheels and axles had to be removed.  It took some heave-ho-ing with ropes and jacks, but it was accomplished.  The men bolted the wheels and axles back on, and now they are both working trailers.