Birthday boy

This is Andrael who is having the time of his life and getting all these cool gifts and cake and coke and brigadeiro and love and I can not think of anything else. Blow little guy! a candle that does not go out, so finaly he say enough and grabs the flame and pintches it out. his mom says nao, nao. meaning no no! boys will always be boys! ahha
Birthday boys brother and my best friend. His name is Lucas and he lives right next to my apartment. He will sneak out of his house and come and open my door(without nocking) and walk right in and start yelling portuguese and running around! haha I love it!

Fun Time

Here I am making some Brigadeiro, a Brazilian Cady (very nice) that is very popular here. I was asked if I would like to make 200 of them for a birthday party. I said sure why not! They have birthday party's for the kids at the school so there are like over 200 kids so you can imagine how often we have birthday party's hahaha. I love it though and the kids are so cool to be around!and yes they are as good as they look! It is very hard to stop eating them. I will show you pics of the birthday boy tomorrow.

Working!

I am helping the campus with some manual labor so that my rent is cheaper. It may consist of 2 or 3 afternoons a week and involves anything from teaching English, playing with the kids to electrical work or running new phone line. In the picture I was working at the new church they are building, and was asked to spray the wood with Diesel so that the termites do not eat at it. Now I have heard of a lot of things but never spraying wood with diesel, the whole time I could not help but think what a massive explosion there would be if a match got to close, and then what a small me there would be as well. hahaha They say you learn something knew everyday, and I had to think to myself what ever works. O ya by the way I did survive! God has more work for me on this earth! GO GOD!

Making new friends!

I do believe that there are many opportunities that we can miss by not making new friends. From every friend that comes are way we can choose to learn and share our experiences in order to live a better life. And in turn make better use of the opportunities that we are faced with. I do find it hard sometimes to keep making new friends, after a while I find it hard to keep opening up to new people all the time.

FRIENDS I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE,

People that are interested in making a difference in this world. Able to recognize the needs of people that are not as privileged, people who may be suffering from something that takes only a minute for us to stop and aid. There is hardly a greater joy than to serve others rather than oneself. When serving yourself there seems to be a void that never gets filled. But when serving others you in turn are serving a part of you that brings utmost gratification.

When looking inward the eyes become blurred to what is going on around us.
When looking outward, the inward seems to fix its self.


Nothing to new with my life, still digging in trying to learn Portuguese. thanks for your prayers! there are somethings that are starting to click in my head. It is a good feeling mixed with still so far to go. I will never forget the saying "starting is half of the task completed"! now that may not make sense to you, but that is ok. it makes me feel better. hahah!
Eu estou faltando meus amigos. (I am missing my friends) Blessings till the following time! (Os blessings till a vez seguinte).

A BIT OF HEAVEN

The last few days I have been getting frustrated with the language and how difficult it can be. like some words are feminine and some are masculine, for example (thank you) when speaking to a Female you say Obrigada, when speaking to a male you say Obrigado. Now there are a few things like this that take so long to get in my head. It also does not stop there, for things like fridge, couch, chair, table, tv.... and so on. Some of them are feminine and some are masculine, meaning they will end either with an O or A. The one that stumped me the most was the Tv.. ya feminine, now the table and chair being feminine I can grasp, but the tv. hahhahahah come on! It is great how God provides the right things at the right time to give you a nice little touch of heaven. in between classes i was asked to take pics of the students in the school for profiles for all 218 of them. I loved it and had a blast, here is just a few of the cute ones! enjoy!

My homies really look good

Today I had over 2 hours of Portuguese class, my head is spinning and I want to throw small kids out the window. maybe I will settle for throwing a small cat in front of a big huge semi. If only I had a box of pizza and Bary's head to pound it on. Oops ok I will stop with the violence. For those of you who don't know me so well I do apologize. I only hope that It all sticks in this thick head of mine. Prayers are needed! Ok so I saw this picture today and it made me feel all better and at peace again, thought I would share it with everyone. Got to love the La boys, miss you guys! Peace.