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Another Traditional Costa Rican Dance
Here is another one of the Dances from Guanacaste Day. Click HERE to see the origional blog post
Day in the Life (Part 3)
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 [...]
A Day in the Life (Part 2)
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 [...]
A traditional Costa Rican Dance
Here is another one of the Dances from Guanacaste Day. Click HERE to see the origional blog post
A Day in the Life (Part 1)
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 [...]
Cultural Day at School
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 [...]
A Team La Plata Prayer Update
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 [...]
Happy Anniversary Tara!
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” )
The Persecuted
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 [...]
Beggars
…People peddling small trinkets or the disabled are allowed to get on the bus and ask for money. “Why in the world do they allow this? Is this allowed? The bus driver lets him on…why?” …
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