This has been a crazy week out here. On top of language study and everything that goes with that I have been helping a friend move for most of this week. Between all of the moving and the crazy weather, it has been raining nonstop here for the last few days, it has left little time for getting to do fun things like play basketball. We do, however, get the NBA playoffs here on TV every morning. I have had some opportunities to have guys come over and watch games with me, and while I was working out in the gym on Friday I ran into my friend that I met last week on the bike ride. He invited another foreigner and myself to go watch basketball with his family on Saturday and since I didn't have anything else going on at 8am I figured it would be a good idea.
It turns out that the weather yesterday was awful. It was raining almost all day which made it a little rough meeting up on bikes. We made it over to his house though and spent the morning getting to know his father and watching a not so great basketball game. We ate a pretty good lunch and then after lunch just sat around and talked for a while. My friend's father is a local author who writes a lot of history about our area and we had a good time learning some things from him. I started asking him some questions about his beliefs and he said that he didn't have any. He started to ask us about some things and my friend who was with me started to share with him. Our local friend who is a believer also helped to clarify some things that we couldn't get straight with our limited language. My friend who was with me did really well though, for only being out here less than a year he spent about fifteen minutes explaining things to this man and he understood every word. Towards the end he said that he believed and we spent some more time talking to him about everything. His wife was also in the room for most of the conversation and I asked her about what she thought about everything and she said she wasn't sure and wanted a little more time to think about everything and for someone to walk through somethings with her. My plan is to go back later in the week with one of the girls and have them talk to he some more.
The trip to my friend's house took up most of my morning and afternoon on Saturday. The rest of my afternoon was spent trying to dry off. Saturday evening I met up with a couple of friends out here and we went and ate some Mexican food. You know you are in a good place when you can live about 8,000 miles from Mexico and still get some decent Mexican food. It isn't quite the same as back home, but I'm not going to complain. The lady who runs the place is from Mexico and spent some time in the Metroplex and some other places in Texas, so most of the food is pretty legit. There isn't much better than Mexican food on a cold rainy night out here. Other than that it has been a pretty down week. It has been busy. This next week I am planning on hitting the books pretty hard and finishing up my intensive language study. I only have four days left and then I will move on to working with a new tutor and doing more conversational types of things. The language here is a long and slow process, and I am ready to move on to the next stage.
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