Crazy Black Woman

So they have a cake here that is called "Negra Mercado" and it literally translates to "crazy black woman" so that's what we decided to call our next post! :)

Last night was the first time that we got to go to schools and we went to the school of our host  father professor Illson.  He is an english teacher there and has 6 classes that he teaches English to.  It was a little strange because were unprepared and the professor used the time to push his favorite soccer team on the students which we found to be extremely entertaining.  We played games with the students, talked a little bit about Nebraska and spoke English with them to practice a little bit.  Afterwards we all remembered how draining it is to be in the classrooms and all slept really well.  During the day we had great conversation with one another and spent time in prayer, reading our Bibles, thinking about the Gospel, and talking with our host families.

So far this trip is way more chill than ones in the past.  We get some down time and are looking for different ways to serve our families like dishes and buying our own food to eat.  This next week it looks like we will get more time to hang out with the brazilians in the church and from other cities as well as visit different schools to set up for the level 2 team.

So we were going to build a house this morning and help a family who was moved because of the flood but we showed up and there were no construction workers!  Now we are waiting for lunch and trying to learn Portuguese by watching American TV shows on TV with subtitles because they don't do voice-overs for the best TV shows like Grey's Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, New Girl and others.  Some learn English by watching these shows and trying to hear the language and learn how to pronounce words better too.  It's cool stuff. chao!