The weekend is here!

You'll never guess where I am! UNICAMP - the university I studied at last year!

It's been a crazy couple weeks... As I shared in my last blog, I arrived Sunday evening and started working Monday morning. After a full week of work (on average working from 8am to 9 or 10pm, with perhaps an hour or two break at some point during the day... perhaps), I helped out with the marriage retreat over the weekend, and came back for work Monday morning. "Work" includes a lot of things out here - throughout the week, I accompanied the group as translator, driver, coordinator, or whatever they needed at the moment. I worked with them a little, I translated a lot, I slipped away when I could to work on paperwork stuff, I gave tours, and the list goes on...

The marriage retreat was really great. I'll have to put up a couple pictures later. The hotel/retreat center we were at was absolutely beautiful! The speaker did a great job, and the couples got to have a romantic candlelight evening on Saturday. We finished off the weekend with church Sunday evening downtown. (By the way, I did not participate in the weekend, but went as a translator and helper. But no worries, everyone assured me they're praying for me...maybe I'll get to participate next year. haha)

I have spent most of this week in the office - Tuesday through Friday. Philip left to the States yesterday, and with no groups here, my work has slowed down considerably. I am really enjoying my work, but I have been looking forward to the weekend!

I left work a couple hours early today and decided I'd come to UNICAMP and pay a visit to my old classmates. I happened to run into one of the guys as he was leaving and he let me know where the group was having class and assured me it would be no problem to poke my head in and say hi. So that's exactly what I did... and they all laughed in disbelief and invited me in. Class is almost over now. We'll see what the weekend holds...