{"id":202,"date":"2009-09-06T02:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2009-09-06T02:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T09:00:47","slug":"harder-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/harder-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Harder Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Jon Post<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Some weeks are harder than others. I guess this was one of those. It\u2019s funny because there are actually so many things that should have made it a GREAT week.<\/p>\n We struggled a bit with Portuguese this week though we sent many emails to native speakers who told us we were speaking well.<\/p>\n We felt discouraged by the lack of progress with our Angolan visa though we actually made many good contacts, heard from some, have good friends here working hard to help us, and, in a practical sense, saw more progress this week than we have in a while.<\/p>\n So we keep pressing on. Some times our emotions don\u2019t line up with reality and we just kinda deal with it.<\/p>\n We have only three weeks until we fly back to the United States. Some times that\u2019s hard to believe.<\/p>\n