This is my homework...

This was my homework last night:

Just in case you can't tell what I'm holding--those are board books. The kind infants use to learn vocabulary.

You know, I was actually really excited to use these books for studying. They really did help learn the vocabulary and they're designed to be simple. This photo is backwards, they're actually "p" words. Pipa means kite. Probably not something I'll use in everyday conversation, but man, one day I'm going to whip it out and my Brazilian friends will be really impressed.

P.S. Don't mind Carl in the background. He was getting his peanut butter from the closet and was ill prepared for a picture.

Learning a new language in this immersion-type setting is really humbling. Literally, people can communicate with anyone over the age of 2 easier than they can talk to me. I think this is really good for me; I know I can sometimes get overly confident and this is a good lesson in humility. I'm excited for what God's teaching me through this experience.

I'd say the best part of the board books was what we did in class tonight. We got to play Pictionary. My favorite vocabulary builder ever. Hands down.

Pictionary inspired me so much I went ahead a drew a nice mural during our break. That's a dinosaur chasing a chicken and Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants. The dinosaur has also offended two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Ridiculous, no? In my defense though, every element of this came up in class tonight so...