2-21

Today has been pretty cool. I was able to do a lot of different things around the Casa. It was a little less busy than the last couple of days, since it was a Saturday. I was able to go over a lot of common Spanish phrases today! Two of the girls from the Casa sat with me a couple of times at the house to help my pronounce the words correctly. Haha. I butchered so many words its not funny. I guess this is the best way for me to get a hang of it. I do feel that I’m able to understand more then the last few days. Not much and I’m pretty sure most of what I went over today isn’t going to stay solid in my brain. I think it’s going to take time. So in 3 weeks are so I think I’ll be better speaking wise. Right now I takes me awhile to process a lot of the words together in my head. Blah it’s kind of annoying to have to sit and think about what you’re going to say for so long.

You know the guy that I talked about the other day, Chito who speaks pretty good English, well he came to the Hogar today. Him and Cecilia. It was good to see them again. So apparently Chito grew up in the Casa. That was pretty cool find out. Tonight also I met a guy names Phillipe who was in school at Guadalajara to become a Dentist. He also grew up in the Hogar. I just think that it’s so cool that since they moved out of the Casa Hogar that they keep coming back. It just shows how much love they have for one another.

Another cool thing that I’ve done over the last few days is to run with some of the boys from the house. There is a really nice running track in Tepa called the “Colosial”. It 4K which I’m not sure how far that is, it’s probably a little under 3 miles. Its crazy hard to run over here. I think my body needs to adjust to the altitude here. It’s a lot higher here then Louisiana. But it’s fun to run with these guys their really silly and funny. Also I get to see the outline to the city of Tepatitlan which is pretty amazing. There are a bunch of mountains that surround the town and you can see all of them from the trail. You can also see a lot of houses that are in the city. It’s really quite the view. I think I’ll have to bring my camera one time when I go out there.

I hope that every one back at home is doing great. I really miss every thing back home. I knew it would be hard to transition from my house to this but I think that’s a sacrifice that God has called me to.

I really hope to paint for the kids some time soon. I think that will be my next project that I work on here. I’ve been telling all the Sister’s and kids that I’m an artist so I’ll have to put my skill into motion. Angelle did you ever get to do any art work while you were here?