We are getting anxious, nervous, excited and ready for the students to get to school in a few days. I think we have had so many meetings and so much time to work that now we just want to get started. It has been great to here all the speakers, find out all the information about the school and start to meet those we will be teaching with, but it has been weird to be in a school all day long without students.
It has been awesome to see what missionaries have been doing down here. Every morning a different board member (most of whom are missionaries) tell us about their ministry to the people down in Bogota. Here are just a few quick highlights of some:
1. Reaching out to the recyclers - these are men and women who pull around or ride carts with horses and the pick up things to recycle. They mostly live in a community together and they have a lot of drug trafficking and teen pregnancies in these areas. This one couple has been going to this community, developing relationship with them, bringing the students from ECA to help and telling them about the gospel
2. Giving loans to the poor - this ministry supplies loans to the poor of Bogota to start their own businesses and get on their feet. Hopefully they will then pay back their loan and be able to have a business that flourishes.
There are many others and we cannot wait to help with some of them as we get more involved in the school.
Alright so what happened today? Well after our meetings and orientation at school we met up with a couple from a church down here that we might be working in. The funny thing was they have a neighbor who works for a publishing company that is putting out some curriculum for students to learn English...so...they need some native English speakers. We went and tried out today and we hear in a couple of days if we need to go in and record some scripts. Jorge joked with us that we have only been in the country for a week and we might be famous...hahaha. Anyway, it was pretty funny, since I did my regular voice and the other voice was supposed to be a crocodile speaking (obviously this is for kids), but I have no idea what a crocodile would sound like. It was fun and we will let you know if we get the "part".
We are hoping to move into the apartment we selected by this weekend, but at the latest sometime early next week.
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