Well, we made it! Tomorrow we have our last day of Spanish classes. We have not talked very much about the school we have attended since Aug 10th. This first month has mostly been about gaining language skills for our work beginning in September. Our school called Intercultura and is well-known in this area for providing excellent language instruction. We have met people from all over the world who have come to Costa Rica simply to attend this school. In the evenings Intercultural also offers English classes for Costa Ricans who want to learn the language for business and tourism. It has been intensive work for both of us. Our classes were four hours each day, Monday to Friday, with homework afterwards. Both of us have improved in spite of tired brains each night.
Mark can now talk in the past and future tenses and has learned a lot of conversational vocabulary. Emily reviewed a lot of the verb tenses and has gained dozens of new vocabulary words. We would recommend Intercultura to anyone interested in serious study of Spanish. (www.interculturacostarica.com)
We are now very excited for Monday when we will finally begin what we came to do, serve at Roblealto. Beginning Monday we will meet with the Roblealto staff and jump in right away helping with a church group that arrives this week. As of next week we will know much more about what our jobs will entail. We are eager to serve along side Pamela (international department director,) as well as Lisi and Nelli. While we were in school we also did some work on the new Roblealto website anticipating that it will launch in September. Thank you to Steve Hein from Ridgewood for his guidance and hard work to create the website.
We ask for prayers from all of you as we leave behind our month of becoming accustomed to Costa Rica and gaining language skills!
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