One of the
biggest challenges for us is language.
In order to do life here, and to do it well, we need to be able to speak
Spanish. When we arrived in Nicaragua
over a year ago, we were equipped with survival-Spanish, barely. I feel like now we are fairly
functional. Andrew was thrilled this
week when he gave directions to our house in Spanish to a mom trying to get to Mae’s
birthday party. And yes, I teach a
childbirth class in Spanish once a week, but I spend hours with google
translate writing out word for word exactly what I am going to say and then for
the most part, spend the entire class reading what I have written. We are far from feeling we have “made it,” and
daily wish we were better able to communicate.
Because of this, we are so thankful for David, our Spanish tutor, who we
meet with 1-2 times a week. David is an incredible teacher who challenges us in
a very encouraging way. We have a lot of
fun laughing at our mistakes (both in our Spanish and his English) and love
that he takes the time to teach us “Nica-isms” which we can then use to impress
our Nicaraguan friends.
Please excuse the selfie--Henry was the only photographer available, and wan't quite living up to the task!
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