Comprende?

Well, its the end of our first week in Granada, Nicaragua and I can definitely see an improvement in my spanish. I have a great teacher who is funny and patient with me. It’s exciting to be able to understand almost 100% of what she is saying. Speaking the language, however, it a different story. When I’m practicing on my own or with Dustin, I get it. When it comes time to speak it in class, my brain freezes. But, I’m confident that will change quickly as we continue and my confidence builds.

I don’t think Dustin and I truly realized how much time school would take up between sitting in class, practicing, and the homework. Phew... do they like giving homework! Now that we are settled in and have a good grasp of the town, we’ll be doing more exploring in the weeks ahead. 

Today we are meeting up with the CFC youth team that spent the last week in Puerto Cabezas.  All 42+ people are on there way from Managua, to Masaya Market, then to Granada to eat some lunch and see the town before heading back to catch their early evening flight home. You can see what they did last week on Will Cravens blog. 

Tomorrow Dustin and I will continue to explore the town and study our spanish. We have one more week before I head home on July 9th to get ready for our EPIC trip to Israel/Palestine. Dustin will be staying behind a few extra days to meet up with the Granger/CFC team to take them over to Puerto Cabezas. He’ll be with them a few days before heading back to Virginia for 24 hours before jumping on the plane with me to Tel Aviv!

Have a fun and safe 4th of July weekend!