Journal #11

Shelly is sure studying hard!

SMILE!

We are at Trae Frateli Italian Restaurant after Bible Class. The best in Antigua!

Happy 26th Birthday TJ!

These were the after-dinner mints that came with the bill.

None of us had sore throats though!

We just finished another week at Christian Spanish Academy (www.learncsa.com). That makes 3 weeks completed and 5 more to go. It gets frustrating at times because you want to speak Spanish so badly but your brain is not ready to do so. Thinking out all the correct tenses and such can be a headache. One step at a time will get us through. It is hard to only take one step though.

We had an enjoyable evening last night with our friends. We went to Bible study at 6:00 pm and then went to a great Italian restaurant (it is actually a franchise out of San Francisco) called Trae Frateli. We were celebrating T.J. McCloud's 26th birthday. He and his wife, Holly, are from Nashville also. We did not know them before we moved here. She bought him a cake which was like tres leches (three milk cake) with strawberries and the restaurant served it to us. It was good. We enjoyed our time together.

Tomorrow we are taking a walking tour of Antigua's ruins with Elizabeth Bell (an American woman who has lived here for 30-40 years. You can look at her website at http://www.antiguatours.net/. It starts at 9:30 am and ends at 12:30 pm. I am looking forward to it. There is so much history in this town. We will be able to see it up close and personal tomorrow.

The rest of the weekend will be spent energizing and studying. I finished the first book today and will have my test on Tuesday. I need to review and make sure I have everything in my brain. We will talk to you again on Monday. Have a great weekend!

Chad