Sarah and I got to practice our Spanish this past week. Our Friendship Force club hosted a group from Bogota, Colombia, and neither of the two women staying with us spoke much English (one spoke no English). I found that I remembered more words as the week went along, and I was able to converse fairly well. However, there were a few times when I ended up nodding and smiling because the pace was too fast or the vocab was beyond me.
Paul, who speaks essentially no Spanish, did a good job of taking care of our visitors on the days I was working. He even took them to Luray to go to the Caverns. He discovered that they have done away with the tours and now give headsets to visitors for a self-guided tour. They have the tours in various languages....what a concept!
We now have a standing invitation to visit Bogota, and one of them has a daughter who is in the minstry of culture and might be able to help with Paul and Sarah's quest to do archaeology next winter. Both of them are or have been involved with people with special needs. We did not know this before they came, so it was interesting to talk to them about their work.
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