A little update

Not much has been going on here the last month. The school year is really starting to wind down, just about three weeks left to go. I've really enjoyed my first year of teaching ESL. I feel like I've definitely learned a lot! Micah's done really well with his first year of teaching High School classes and ESL. He's a natural at it.

I'm really looking forward to Susie's visit at the end of this month. She should arrive on the same day as Rachel, Micah's sister. It'll be fun to have some new faces around here and to be able to show Susie around Belém. She's been down in the south of Brazil but it's a whole different world up here. Belém has much more of an Indian influence and doesn't have much of the European influence that the south has.

We haven't really figured out our plans for this summer yet. We'll probably be spending a couple of weeks in Campinas, about an hour from Sao Paulo, where Micah will be working for his old company and I'll be taking some Portuguese classes. Micah just recently discovered a school here in Belém that offers Portuguese lessons which is really exciting. We're just waiting for them to send us information so that hopefully next semester I can begin taking classes. I have been really dissapointed this last year about not being able to find a school here that offers classes so this is a really wonderful surprise.