Another week of fun!

So, I have the best news to start this with....one of our students last week got a job on Monday! Hooray! She is the 5th person we have taught that has gotten a job I believe in these 2 weeks we've been teaching. She just got off her mission and told Roberto she was so glad to have the course to do because she was a little lost upon getting home. When she came into the class the first day she was really good at speaking to us and everything but felt like she couldnt find a job because she lived outside the city center. Here, somtimes in Curitiba people are discriminated against if they dont live in the city, and that has happened to her in the past. So we thought of some ways to turn that into a strong point for her in an interview, and also found her some branches of banks she could work at that are close by to her home. I guess it paid off because she went and turned in her resume at a bradesco bank branch, had an interview later that week, and then monday finalized everything and was hired there. I was so happy for her because she really did something she felt was out of her reach. Yay for people who keep trying even when its hard.
Today we started our 3rd class and this one is 20 people, only 4 of which are members of the church. Hopefully we can have 16 more referals for the missionaries by the end of the week. We had our class today write on their name tags a quality that they posess and what accomplishment gave them that quality. One of the ladies in the class wrote "I dont get discouraged" and when we asked her what acomplishment gave her that ablility she told us with tears in her eyes that she is rasing an 8 year old girl on her own, and sometimes she couldnt pay for bills and things and went many times without eating all day to give her food to her child. But dispite that, she is still working to get a job, still has hope that she will find something to help her provide for her and her daughter. She isnt one of the members, and I just wanted to tell her that its okay, and that heavenly father is aware of her circumstances and wants better for her, but instead we read a scripture in D&C and I told them that every single one of the people standing before me has something special in them, a gift, an ability that no one does better than them. They just need to find it, realize it, and then use it. And that God cares about each and every one of us, and is there to help us in our struggles. I hope that lady in our class finds the help she needs, it broke my heart listening to that, no one should ever go hungry.
But, my language skills in the class room are getting better each week. I am able to help people out more one on one, and there were still times when I had to say "Disculpa, não entendi" when I was talking with people, but up infront teaching people, I'm not nervous anymore and I am actually having fun now. Thank goodness!!
I went to lunch today with another voulnteer, Roberto (the manager), and Camila to a casa de chá. It was like a little house converted into a resturant/bakery with tons of good food. This as I was told is something super curitibana, and your supposed to go there and just take a few hours with your friends eating and talking. The main attraction are the cakes. I think there was probably like 10 different cakes, all kinds of breads and candies, and pies too. It was defenetly a good lunch, I'm just glad we didnt eat churrasco. After eating so much with the study abroad, I think I wont be ready for that until like december before I go home.
Tonight Camila and I were going to go shopping and just go have some fun, but we were asked to teach the first day of the Executive course they are giving tonight because the other manager cant make it. I can always go shopping another day, the malls of curitiba will still be there.
And for those who love/dispise and make fun of the novelas do rede globo...they have a new one that just aired for the first time last night. Its called "o profeta", and its about a guy who can see into the future. Its like the "dead zone" meets "thats so raven"....basically its really cheezy and should be a funny thing to watch once and a while. I really liked watching some of the novelas, but the bunch they have now are meio podre, so this one should be a nice change.
Well, I should probably get some homework done, but I hope that everyone is having a good week so far and that things are going well for you. I am enjoying everything here this week, and besides our crazy neighbors above us everything is great. Até Mais!!