Everything is fine here -- hopefully I will be making phone calls later
today! We have started teaching, and it is really a blast, but also
incredibly intimidating. Communication lately has been really frustrating
because it is so difficult, and I still haven`t received any mail outside of
CT. But we just have to be patient, and once I get to site, communication
should be a lot easier once I have more time during the day.
My Portuguese is really coming along, and teaching in it isn´t as
intimidating (it is still really hard) as I originally thought it would be.
I miss everyone tremendously.
Things that would be really cool to have here: The latest hip-hop & rap
music (they LOVE JayZ, P Diddy, JLo, DMX, etc), pictures of people and
events from home, synopses of the latest movies, a book on budgeting and
personal finance because I want to see if I can teach that here, my friends
to visit in four and a half months when I am allowed to have visitors :-) ,
teaching materials (anything really), etc.
Hopefully I will be able to send out some sort of XMas gifts, but I cannot
promise they will be on time. We have four weeks until swearing in as
volunteers, and we are all really psyched ...
PEACE and Love,
John
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