Today, after breakfast, Alex showed me how to do maintenance checks on the project Mexico vehicles. It was a good learning experience for me. I wish I had a better mechanical IQ. Hopefully doing maintenance checks over the months to come will improve my vehicle literacy. In addition to the vehicles, he also showed me different patches of ice plant around the orphanage grounds that need to be cared for to help keep different hills from eroding. It looks like I’ve got some weeding to do here in the near future. All through the morning and into the early afternoon, Alex showed me all the ins and outs of his weekly jobs that I’ll be taking over now.
After the run through of jobs, I went to my room and worked on my Spanish. Tu pensar yo pueda aprendo muchas rápido después todo la practico. (You would think that I could learn quickly after all the practice.) Ah well, it’s coming, I definitely have improved tremendously since I arrived. My most recent step to improvement has been understanding Spanish accents. I can pronounce something correctly, and make a decent attempt to use a Spanish accent, however, hearing an authentic accent speak muy rapido, is different. Haha. I’m getting by though, as the boys laugh. :-)
I’m just about on my way to a Vesperal Liturgy to celebrate St. Innocent, the patron saint of the orphanage. After that I might get to skype video chat with my family! :-)
Monday, October 5, 2009
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