This is Mark's apartment complex at BYU. It is the Foreign Language Housing Residence. For church they meet in the large commons room, with all the language students. The sacrament prayer is in a different language each Sunday. To live here, you must be in a foreign language class. It is mostly Returned Missionaries. His RM roommates tutored him well in preparing for his mission.
Mark and his roommates are only allowed to speak Spanish, watch movies and TV only in Spanish. Mark's Spanish speaking improved greatly over the 6 weeks.
Five nights a week, the 30 Spanish students prepared dinner together, ate and cleaned up. Again only Spanish speaking is allowed. Then they divided up into their class levels and each group had class for an hour. Mark and one other boy were the only Spanish 111 students, so they put them in with the 211 class. Mark said it was really hard, but he learned a lot.
Two of Mark's roommates are from Peru, and another went on his mission to Peru. They showed pictures, taught him about the culture and prepared him for his mission. They even cooked guinea pig one night. There is a Peruvian store in Provo that sells them cleaned and ready to cook.
Mark could not wait to get home. Duncan and Mark left Provo a day earlier than planned and drove straight through to home. Mark was home for 10 days before leaving on his mission
This is Mark's apartment complex at BYU. It is the Foreign Language Housing Residence. For church they meet in the large commons room, with all the language students. The sacrament prayer is in a different language each Sunday. To live here, you must be in a foreign language class. It is mostly Returned Missionaries. His RM roommates tutored him well in preparing for his mission. 
Mark and his roommates are only allowed to speak Spanish, watch movies and TV only in Spanish. Mark's Spanish speaking improved greatly over the 6 weeks.
Five nights a week, the 30 Spanish students prepared dinner together, ate and cleaned up. Again only Spanish speaking is allowed. Then they divided up into their class levels and each group had class for an hour. Mark and one other boy were the only Spanish 111 students, so they put them in with the 211 class. Mark said it was really hard, but he learned a lot.
Two of Mark's roommates are from Peru, and another went on his mission to Peru. They showed pictures, taught him about the culture and prepared him for his mission. They even cooked guinea pig one night. There is a Peruvian store in Provo that sells them cleaned and ready to cook.
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