To say that Sean arrived and hit the ground running is a bit of an understatement. Friday afternoon was spent in a long work meeting with Sean's future boss at a local, private English school. Saturday we had a big group dance class arranged a head of time with dinner afterward and on Sunday my host family had a big churrasco barbecue lunch for us. And on Monday Sean started teaching. I showed him how to get to work and then headed off to spend the day at UFPA.
Sean is working for a company called Global English. It's a unique setup in that the owners, a young husband and wife missionary team from South Carolina, run the business as a way to generate profits for their social justice projects in some of the poorer areas on the outskirts of Belém. They said that they did the fundraising thing for awhile but that they were never able to raise what they needed and that the amount of time the fundraising required took away from the work they wanted to be doing. They have been here for four years and so far the business model and projects are going well and they hope to be able to spread this idea to other parts of Brazil in the future.
Sean teaches classes Monday-Thursday and has currently been biking to and from work. He says it's been a little overwhelming and a bit of an adjustment to have to get back into teaching but that so far it's been going all right. I think he's more excited about the fact that we are in walking distance from the Amazon brewing company with nightly all you can drink happy hours. Now that's something about the jungle that I can get excited about.
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