By Brian on August 12, 2008
In this segment we meet a few more of my language helpers. Tomorrow, you go with me to lunch to a delicious ‘hole-in-the-wall’ Costa Rican “Soda”.
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By Brian on August 10, 2008
Here is another one of the Dances from Guanacaste Day. Click HERE to see the origional blog post
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By Brian on August 6, 2008
In this segment I go out on a limb. I recorded part of a conversation that I had with Andrés. It’s an example of what one of my conversations looks like on my route. In preparation for each of day of my route I work with a language helper (my neighbor), putting together a text [...]
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By Brian on August 5, 2008
In this segment we get downtown and visit 2 of my language helpers, José y Andrés. For continuity sake I recorded before, after, and during each of my stops. Just so you know, I was holding a small video recorder down at waist level trying to be as inconspicuous as possible. The segment after talking [...]
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By Brian on August 3, 2008
Here is another one of the Dances from Guanacaste Day. Click HERE to see the origional blog post
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By Brian on July 30, 2008
Before coming to language school I got several questions as to what a normal day would look like for a missionary. It’s a good question, but at times very hard to answer. While in language school its pretty cut and dry, we go to school, study, eat, study, sleep, study in your sleep, try to [...]
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By Brian on July 27, 2008
Monday is a national holiday here in Costa Rica, so we don’t have school. It is the day that the country celebrates the annexation of the Guanacaste Province to Costa Rica. Back in the day when all the colonies in Central America were given independence, the colony of Guanacaste voted to become part of Costa [...]
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By Brian on July 24, 2008
The following is from an email Nate sent out recently (He gave me permission to post it here for everyone): Hey team, I know many of you were expecting an update last week, and I encouraged you to just praise God. I figured that praise would be the most effective tool we have for seeing [...]
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By Brian on July 23, 2008
This Love Song goes out to my awesome wife of 9 years! I Love Ya Baby! (“The One Semester of Spanish Spanish Love Song”) (Don’t worry, we know more spanish than this…I just don’t have the talent to make “The Two Semesters of Spanish Spanish Love Song” )
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By Brian on July 9, 2008
I’m signed up to receive email from Voice Of The Martyrs. So I periodically get reports from around the world of incidents of Christians being persecuted. In North America we can be, at times, so insulated from the realities our brothers and sisters face daily that we forget the price, the seriousness, of our decision [...]
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