The gradumination of the second group

Curitiba is known to have the higest trees (greenery) to person ratio out of any other large city in Brazil....that means its really pretty here!
So I'm sitting in the employment center with just me and Camila here. Why so empty you may ask? Well, today happens to be Children's Day (like fathers or mothers day...but for kids) and also a holiday for a catholic saint a nossa senhora da luz. Im not catholic by any means, but I thank them for getting me a day off of work! Mostly we have been doing homework here, writing church headquaters and BYU for our weekly report, returning emails, taking quizzes on blackboard, and um, calling people in the US. It was good talking to Tisha and Kimberlee....and Jeni too! And of course talking to Liesel and Ashley on-line, I'm glad I have good friends! I hope that all is well for everyone else too. Who knows maybe I'll get a chance to call you next week! We pass people like this (yes thats a person) on the way to and from work everyday on Rua XV...its such a cool street, reminds me of San Fransico the buildings and stuff as you can see are really beautiful.
But about the rest of the week.... After my mini melt-down on tuesday things went better the next and last day of our course. My students were all really good at their mock interviews and every single non-member this week wanted to know more about the church! I am always so excited to get those little papers back from them, and the missionaries are always excited to get them from us. I hope some of those people get baptized because I have thought to myself many times with the people that come into the center, they would be such good members of the church! They already have that intrinsic goodness, and God is already a big part of their lives, so i hope the missionaries follow up on them. This too is in the downtown kind of by our house, either that or there are two busts of the same guy in this city.
We had another good experience with one of our students from this week. He came in Monday on the first day with unkempt hat under a baseball cap, an unshaven face, and poor personal hygiene. He was quiet and needed one on one help throughout most of the workshop. On the third and last day he didn’t show up, and I was sad to see all his hard work gone by without him finishing the course. But then about 10 minutes into the class the door opened and in walked a man with a new hair cut, a shaven face, and a dress shirt, pants, and shoes. It was the same man from the first day that we had worked with so much. He had gone home and practiced everything from the workshop and gave a flawless interview. I was amazed to see the change this three day course made in not only his appearance but his posture, demeanor, and confidence. Its moments like those that make me grateful for this experience and opportunity I have been given to do this internship.
We go past a feira (farmers market thing) just like this everyday, its got cool stuff that some day when I have time I will buy.
Yesterday we also had our first conference call from church headquarters in Salt Lake. Camila and I talked to Ron, one of the heads of the welfare department and mimi another one of the admisitrators there. It was so good to talk to them and tell them how things are going down here, and they also gave us some pointers for things we should do down here and talk with our bosses about. So we have a lunch meeting tomorrow with our bosses to go over what we talked about with headquarters.This would be our new view if we move...the apartment looks out onto the plaza where this univeristy is...not a bad view huh!
And, it looks like we might be moving. Camilas aunt has a vacant apartment about 10 minutes away from the office that has a washer and is a 3 bdrm 2 bath. Its huge and since Camila has no bed down here and has been sleeping on the couch for the past 3 weeks we figured we might want to live at her aunts place. I think that would be nice, although ive grown quite fond of the jacuzzi tub lol.

This is an Empadão...i'll let you know if its good!
Well its about 7 pm and i have been writing people like all day, so i suppose i had better go grab some dinner, Camila is sugessting an empadão...nunca comi, mas deve ser bom! Thanks for all the emails and encouragement I got from everyone, I promise I will keep my complaning to a minimum.