August 11th, 2009

*I translated the flyer I made from the previous day from English into Spanish. Learning the dynamics of a new language is very difficult after having been conditioned my entire life to think one way. I got much help and patience from Momina on this, she also speaks Hindi. I am trying to learn the basics of the Spanish language because I feel a responsibility to be as present here as possible for the people in this community, and the language gap is a very large barrier for the work that i wish to do here. *Today I started this task journal, everything written before this day has been written in retrospect. Its amazing how much the human mind can remember. This has taken many hours of sitting in my cubicle. I have never been so motionless.