Day 7

Today is our first day without anything scheduled. Tomorrow we get to go Moz churches which will be amazing!! This week has been intense and for a lack of better vocabulary "Face melting." We have one week with real linguistically legit people telling us about the languages in the country. Its really interesting and interactive. They have us practice making sounds that the English vocab does not have. So its pretty funny to listen to us try like fools to shape the sounds. This afternoon is free time so a bunch of us are going to go into town and shop. We know our way around so its pretty cool to be a grown up and not have to hold someone's hand to go shopping. My Portuguese is pretty basic. Spanish really did help me have a good base to pick up. I know all my numbers up to 200 in spanish and they are basically the same in Port. so Shopping is a breeze. They add a lot of SH and Ch/Sh to the send of words so I get a little confused but can basically figure it out.

Most of our group will be leaving Monday to go out with the missionaries in other provinces of Moz. They couldn't find somewhere for me to go and stay for a week like everyone else. But I'm so OK with that. I'm really excited to get to stay here and really get to know the school and the teachers. Hillary, David's wife wants me to be able to go and observe at the schools in the city and in the neighborhood. One really interesting cultural thing I learned is that when people are listening to what you are saying they aren't necessarily looking you square in the eye. Because, well, we listen with our ears not our eyes. HA! I have not gotten a chance to get to see how this effects the classroom but I'm sure it will be an experience!

As for roughing it in Moz, we are totally in for a cushy stay. We don't have lots of water pressure in our shower and there really isn't even heat. But it's not like at home where the water is freezing and will give you hypothermia if you take a cold shower. Its somewhere between room temp. and chilly. When we are really desperate we boil water and take a hot sponge bath. I'm planning that for tonight!