Working Adventures...

I know I havn't written on here in awhile. Mom has been bugging me about it, so here you go.

I had a couple of crazy days at work, but besides that it's been awesome! Earlier this week I went in to get my criminal record check done and surprisingly it's already done! I go in to get it tomorrow afternoon. So that's really good because I can finish up my subbing application this weekend. It's almost done, but I have a few pretty important things to fill in.

Now I have to get to what happened today. It was an awesome day! The day was going at just the right speed...not too fast, not too slow. I was really enjoying my job. Anyways, it was almost the end of my shift and two guys come up to the desk to check in. I was just doing my job, checking them in, when I heard them speaking in what I thought must be French, because we get a lot of French people staying in our hotel. So, I was just checking them in when I happened to here one of them say, "quatro." I was thinking, "I thought that four was quatre?" Finally it hit me! Quatro is PORTUGUESE for four! I waited for them to finish talking and then asked them where they were here from. They told me that they were here from Calgary. Next I asked them where they were originally from and they said, BRAZIL! I was like, "Fala Portuguese?!" and they of course said, "SIM!" (which is Portuguese for yes..hehe). We had a short conversation in Portuguese and then we talked about some other stuff.

We got to talking about how I knew Portuguese, so I told them that I had lived in Angola for a year with my family and that's where I learnt "Portuguese de Portugal". Then I told them that my family (minus me) had moved to Namibia. They asked me which organization my family was with and I told them that when my parents were in Namibia they were with Christ's Hope International. Then, to my surprise and delight, one of the men told me that they were both believers as well!

The two of them are with Samaritan's Purse. One of them gave me their card and I gave them my family's and my blog address. It was just SO cool. I told them that they had just totally made my day!

After work I went to the restaurant to have something to eat. When I was done I headed home. I was almost home when who should I run into but the two Brazilian men! I asked them what they were up to and they told me that they had tried to find Great Slave Lake. They had gone the wrong direction and had ended up at a smaller lake. We had a short chat and I'll see them briefly tomorrow morning before they check out. They told me that I should get in touch with some people from their Brazillian church so that I can keep practicing my Portuguese. I just might do that.

Signing off for now. No one has told me what they want me to write about yet, so I'm just winging it. Let me know what you guys all want to hear about!