To continue from the last post, the language confusion has only gotten more confusing! At first it was fine since with my hosts I could communicate in Spanish, and with the fabulous (and nice!) people of AIESEC, I could speak in English. But, today I started work at Instituto AMAR only to realize that nobody in the office speaks in English or Spanish, or any other language that I know. Also, in addition to all of the documents being Portuguese, I will be organizing events for the community in Portuguese...this poses a little bit of a problem. But I guess you could call it a good problem. I will have to learn the language as fast as possible.
In the past six days, I feel like I've already learned a good amount of basic Portuguese, but still not enough to hold a conversation. As a result, this morning was a whole bowl of awkward when I was sitting with two of the women that worked at Instituto AMAR. But Giovani and Maira from AIESEC came, and it was better. We met with Dilamar, the president of Instituto AMAR, and talked a bit of the expectations and what I will be doing.
My sentiments at work today
It can and will only get better (and easier!) from here!
Portuguese word of the day:
guarda-chuva = umbrella
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