John & I are both taking Spanish classes four hours daily here on the base. We have some interesting people in our classes. There is a doctor and wife (an RN, herself); she is already in level three, he is just beginning. There is a Dutch couple in their fifties that spent two years in Sri Lanka and now live in Canada. They drove six days in their Toyota car to reach here. We have a young man, a high school graduate studying Spanish while taking a year break before college. We have a black man from Tulsa, a heart surgeon's assistant. We have another man, late 40's, from Hawaii....don't know much about him yet. We have the New Zealand couple that have already been here 6 months and will go to their post in March.

There is Jolynn, a single woman of 50 that is a nurse practitioner; another single lady, Cleo, who has already been living among some nationals but has come for a couple of months of classes. The Andersons, Coreen & Eric, whom we live with. In fourth level, there is a Korean young lady that they say is whizzing through and will be posted to work with missionary children in March. She has served in Albania before coming here. Then, the last I can remember, is James who we drove down here with. Quite an interesting variety. We have hours of homework every night so we probably won't have as much time for communications but we will do our best.