Placement!

Placement is going very well! I love teaching English. Everyone is so eager to learn. Today we taught the advanced group - we taught them how to ask questions using Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. It's so much fun to see them understand the concepts!

Today in class, we had the three older women that usually come, and then this younger girl (she's only 13) straggled in (she's WAY good at English) and then out of nowhere came this guy our age... or maybe a few years older? He's also reallhy good at English and is really funny. Also! He's a capoeira teacher. Capoeira is this brazillian dance/martial arts etc? It was sooo funny because we had a teacher come in last Tuesday or Wednesday night to teach us, and he had us doing all of these cartwheels and funny moves and stuff and I felt like a jedi. We were all laughing so hard. His wife came the next day though, to teach us the samba, and they did the capoiera together and it was REALLY cool to watch! It's just not so cool to watch when it's us doing it together because we know we're awful so we just laugh the whole time haha.

So anyways I'm loving teaching English. We're about to go on a tour of a church and I'm pretty pumped. Also I've been running here which has been great! I run at noon when I can, so it's way hot, but it feels so good. Except that I got a blister yesterday and so I tried to run today but it hurt so badly. But I did run for a while.

Also this Thursday is this awesome festival - for Bonfim! Ah i'm so pumped. I'll write more about it later.