September 18, 2007

• dead monkeys on my back

  Yikes Lindsay…i don’t know if it counts or not, because it was dead, but there was a monkey right outside the Alcance.

  Kaio kept saying that God was the answer. Now i know He is, but not for every answer in your workbook. There was a fill in the blank about the Scripture passage, and he was determind that it must be God. When said it wasn’t, he started putting Jesus instead. Before he got to the Holy Spirit, we discussed the other characters in the passage. It reminded me of that story where the teacher is teaching Sunday school and asks “What eats nuts and lives in trees?” The kid raised his hand and said “It sure sounds like a squirrel, but i am going to go with GOD.”

  Pray for VISAs.

  * Jeff and Lindsays work visa
  * Tele’s visa (to come to the US in November)
  * My student visa. I am going to talk with a University tomorrow about enrolling next year. If they will let me (without taking this super huge test all in PORTUGUESE), then it should be no problem getting the visa. Not only that, but it is a one year course in Early Childhood Education, so i will basically finish my Bachelors, and then…possibly look into post-grad work…majoring in English, obviously. Anything for a visa.

  So 95% says i will be home for the holidays…November, actually. Seven weeks. That threw me off. Then surprised me that it threw me off…i hadn’t realized i’d been so ready to stay. Then i started talking to David and Alyssa about Cool Ranch Doritos and that amazing Japanese place where they throw shrimp around and hot chocolate with marshmallows and Thanksgiving and Christmas and sledding and…dang, i just have it made whatever happens to me.

  It is also leaving a major HOLE in November. Heather and the baby went to England Sunday, and it feels pretty empty without them. They come back a week or two before we leave…we being (Lord willing) David, Alyssa, Tele, Mariana (Tele’s niece) and i. Bascially, the whole English speaking part of the school…leaving Heather and Karine doing six jobs instead of two. Right before a Christmas program too.

  yep, we are already learning Christmas songs. Would you beleive they have sicko versions of Jingle Bells here too? it is universal.

  • 7:10 pm
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