fish bait

21 de Julio

After 6 days of having your mind constantly racing between two languages, appointments, crunching numbers for a budget and taking in new experiences, I have found that it is hard to allow my brain to slow down and rest. It is blessed Sabbath and my thoughts are flying a mile a minute. This morning, we had our first go at fishing Lake Atitlan. We rented a trashy paddle boat for 50 quitzales and used a bottle with fishing line wrapped around it. I bought a piece of fried chicken for lack of a better idea for bait. Although it was not our most successful fishing excursion, we had fun trying something new. We also decided to try out our new indoor soccer shoes today and spent a couple hours kicking the ball around. The rain came early and in force today. It was kind of nice because it forced us in our room and we used the time reading the Bible and Christian literature and writing journal logs, all the time with the sound of thousands of raindrops on the thin, fiberglass roof. We are counting down the days when we will be able to move in with a family. It will be that much more exposure and that much more opportunity to speak. Hopefully it will greatly increase our language ability. The word for today is “Reis.” It means, to “laugh.”