Portuguese Lessons

So I thought I would update you on the team’s progress with our Portuguese. It was our second lesson on Wednesday and the lessons are going well. We have a lovely teacher called Andrea (pronounced with a Portuguese accent which we are all still trying to master!).
Our team are very dedicated and travel quite a distance for the lesson after a long day at work.

We are so lucky that we are able to have the lessons to help us prepare and make an extra effort with the language whilst we are in Brazil so muito obrigada to Rotary for allowing this to happen!

The first lesson we learnt basic greetings such as how to introduce ourselves how to say please and thank you even how to say sorry should you spill coffee on someone! (lets hope that doesn't happen!) The pronunciation is one of the hardest things I'm finding I think I will be speaking Enguese......English with a (dodgy) Portuguese accent!!

Last nights lesson was a lot harder we looked at the alphabet and how to count from 1-99 as well as how to ask how something is spelt and how to read a phone number. I can predict my homework will not be an A* this week!

Andrea our teacher has lived in Lavras where we are visiting and has told us how lovely, friendly and welcoming Brazilian people are. We are very much looking forward to the trip especially after we had confirmation of our flight booking and the all important baggage allowance- it makes the whole experience so real! We have been in touch with Juliana who came over to England on a GSE trip from Brazil last year and she was so helpful with all our questions from which plug adaptors to bring to translating some phrases we could use. Juliana also emailed Vander who was also on the trip with her some of our questions so I think we will be well looked after during our trip.

As of Saturday we have 5 weeks until our trip, it will be here before we know it!

Tchau!