Ok, so as might have noticed, the Blog is looking a little different. We have (I know... again) changed the Blog to a new host as the last one was simply too unreliable and would never load properly.

So here it is, the new and improved.

I'm sitting at home on a Friday afternoon; Dena has gone out to get the ingredients for Lasagna because we're having a couple of guys over for supper.

It's pretty cool actually. I had written a few weeks ago about how I had gone to a coffee shop near the school and spent some much needed time with God. Well, this coffee shop has quickly become a fave spot for me in CR.

I go almost every Monday, Wednesday & Friday (Lunes, Miercoles y Viernes...eh??? eh???), have a coffee and talk (actually attempt to talk) with a couple of guys that have been working there. It's been so refreshing because my brain is able to stop worrying about grammar and phonetics and just focus on (gasp) communicating. From talking with these guys (one speaks broken English... kinda as well as I speak Spanish), and from talking to my landlord, it's been great to realize, "Hey, I really am learning something."

I'm not doing great at the grammar. I use "Ser" where I should use "Estar" and vice versa, but I'm communicating and I can tell you that there is no greater feeling after two hours of struggling through a class, then to sit down with a coffee and actually be understood in a conversation.

I'm so thankful for coffee... I know that sounds odd, but it seems like God uses coffee shops in my life. In Albania my friend Ilir actually ran a coffee shop, a highlight for me, and gained an awesome knowledge of the culture I would never have gotten on my own. Here, I've got Rodrigo and Danielle and then in Canada, well... those Canucks reading this know that there are few more spiritual things then a cup of Tim Horton’s coffee (which would be a great care package idea by the way).

Well, that's about all all I have. Hope to write more now that we have a more reliable server.