February 2008

It's the beginning of February.... Valentine's Day is approaching. One of the highlights of this month has been that I discovered that my US passport got lost while I was visiting my Sister Claudia and her boyfriend Donny during the holidays. The weird thing was that it got lost right out of my backpack. I am under the impression that it was "lost" while I was in flight back to Miami. Anyways, I had to request a new one, which has been a little bit frustrating since I am always on top of important documents.. Well, as you can imagine we had to redo a bunch of documents because they had the old passport information on it and I needed to update everything. We also had to update our home study, not only because of the passport information, but also, because it has been a year since we submitted the original one to CHI with our original dossier.

Well, on January 29, I sent an email to our coordinator (Marti) because we had some questions and concerns in regards to Registration. It took well over a week, but we finally got a response. The following are some of the things I asked:

1. Info about replacing passport information on documents! What needed to be redone.
2. We wanted to know when we were going to receive a letter that would inform us what documents need to be updated. Some of the paperwork will expire soon and we would like to get a head start on them.
3. We wanted to know if there was an idea of when we would be registered!
4. Waiting time?

Well, unfortunately, the response I got from Marti was not very encouraging. We have to continue to pray...

A quick note, I have been looking for different aids to learn Russian, at least the basics, I came across a very interesting aid. Mauricio and I started using it, and to be honest with you, I Love It... Its fun and easy to learn.
Below it's the information, just in case anyone becomes interested:

Earworms Russian (Berlitz Earworms)
Inc. Berlitz International
List Price: $24.95
Price: $16.47

Book Description
Earworms MBT Rapid Languages plants more than 200 Essential words and phrases into long term memory, ready for instant recall. Simply listen to the music CD filled with rhythmic repetitions a few times and the sound patterns will get to deeper levels of memory. Listeners will subconsciously acquire a collection of verbs, nouns and connecting words, all the while picking up the correct accent. Effortless, enjoyable, fast and effective language learning through music. Stimulating and self motivating through tangible rapid progress. Linguistic material that is presented in such a way as to make difficult structures easy to grasp for the learner. Upload it to Ipod or other MP3 players for use on the go.

You can find it through Amazon