Created for a Mission

While in Colorado I’ve been exercising three times a week.  Today was the day to exercise and the facility is about a half a mile away from our building.  Larissa (my workout partner) and I walked out the building this morning to find about 2-3 inches of snow on the ground and the snow coming down very heavy.  It was 6:15am and therefore still dark outside.  Also, the wind was blowing extremely hard.  We had a decision to make. My first inclination was to turn around, go inside and go back to my room.  I’m not that committed so I would have to say I was crazy and decided to take the walk.  Above is a picture of the distance.  As we started walking the snow was blowing into our eyes, so we couldn’t see.  At some points we had to walk backwards.  Yet, we never thought to turn back.  We made it to the building and worked out.  On our way back, the wind died down a bit but it was still snowing.  As we walked we realized we couldn’t even see our foot prints from our walk up to the Inn. 

Overall, my time here has been great! We have had lots of opportunity to exercise our mouth.  We have been doing all kinds of drills to practice different phonetics sounds.  By the end of the day we are usually spent. I know that this training will be very helpful for language acquisition.  I will leave here with a plan for numerous activities to acquire the language.

This weekend, we went on a hike up the Reservoir Trail in Palmer Lake.  It was 4.5 miles round trip.  The scenery was absolutely beautiful.  Here are some pictures.