Thursday, May 14, 2009

We are loving the Island!!!










Well, we've only been here about a week but are having the time of our lives!!!  Many times we go to bed exhausted because we've been working so hard to learn German and Greek. . . .I guess I have the benefit with Greek!  :)   As of now it's not really busy on the island yet so we've only been working 4 hours each day!  Ahhhh..... what a difference from the American lifestyle we have been so used to!  We go to the beach almost every day and are working on our tans!

It's a lot of fun because we are meeting people from all around the world each day!  Just within the girls we work with we've met someone from Brazil, Poland, South Africa, England, and yes there is another American!  They are all very sweet and we are happy to have made new friends!  I'm sure eventually there will be pictures with all of them!  Also we are meeting tons of people from Germany as that is where most of the guests are coming from!  

At night many times we sit with them as they try to help us learn the German language!  It's not really easy but we're hoping with time we will be able to speak more!  We know how to say very basic phrases such as Ihnen schunen tag nag!!!  (English Pronunciation...  I - nen  shoe - nen  to - chk  nock from the back of your throat!!!)  It means have a good day!  And yes our English is very quickly running away from us!  We sound really funny when we talk!

All is good!  We have a very quaint but cute bedroom where we live together!  The family that we work for is really nice and take good care of us!  We have quickly made many friends and hope to continue doing good!  It's funny because most people have never heard of the mormon church before so we have a lot of explaining to do about the way we live our lives but it's good to be reminded of what we believe and why we believe it!  We will forever be grateful to have the principle of the gospel in our lives!!!  

Love you all and we'll try to post again soon!

1 comment:

  1. I love that you are having a good time!!! You are so smart you will catch onto the German in no time flat. Lay out an extra 5 minutes for me one day..Ok.. Keep us posted on all the great things you will be doing and all the people you meet!

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