Week 4 and 5

Week four was not very exciting, except for the fact that Marian started to go out with Erwin and I, to visit people in their businesses. Marian has surprised us all with her ability to understand and speak. She is not yet fluent but getting there pretty quickly. We also have been told of a very prominent hotel in Santa Cruz, it suppose to be a five star hotel, and we have plans on going next week to visit it and find out if it is as good as they say it is.

Week Five started out great, Ben was given the chance to give a class to the in-country staff about what our business classes are all about. We then made our way around to peoples businesses and visited them and to remind them about our class that night, we watched Hoosiers. It was the same thing everyday until late Thursday, when we got a call from Utah, we were going to have a meeting with Sallee Reynolds the next morning to discuss the in-country staffs goal's for the next 3 months. Friday turned out to be a bad day, as you know, I was to give a class at 8:30, it came and went. Brigam was in the same room with me as I was setting up my presentation, Erwin came in and talked with me as I was putting my class on the projector, he got up and left. Carmen came in and never entered the room where my class was being given, and not to mention the person that was helping me, never showed up. The boss showed up and then never entered until Sallee called at 9:00. Friday to say the least was a bad day, we did nothing, absolutely nothing, we sat around and did nothing.

Saturday was fun, we got to go to the Hotel and see what it was like. When we got there we had a good lunch, Marian had a Hamburger and I had a club sandwich, they were amazing. I then went to play an exhausting three hours of soccer, and Marian sleep, watched TV and then went tanning. The rest of the day was spent swimming in a pool and hot tube with the possible chance of having a fun day at the spa, but we never got to go to the spa.

Sunday was much like the first day, except the fact that the sun was not out and it was cold so we decided to stay in most of the day and talk with each other. The entire weekend was about lounging and splurging and it was fun to get away from the cares and worries of Ascend. We had so much fun.

Love,

Ben and Marian Griffin