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In this segment we meet my last language helper, Emilia, and head home.  Tara usually gets home about 2:30 from class, I try to get home about that time to give her a couple hours of study time without the kids bothering her. (in the video i said 2:00, but I meant 2:30).  You also [...]

I hope you have been enjoying the trip.  Today we visit the coffee shop I study at and we’ll meet 2 people there that I talk with on a regular basis.  Carlos is becoming a friend.  We’ve been planning on getting our familes together for dinner, but it just hasn’t happened yet.  He’s also a [...]

In this segment we go to the ‘hole-in-the-wall’ that I eat at.  Tony is the name of the guy that runs it.  Great food for a great price, you can’t ask for much more than that!
When I began my language learning route downtown I wanted to find a place like this where I could eat [...]

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”.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today was a good day for me, actually, it may have been one of the best days I’ve had so far here in Costa Rica.  I got a bunch of solid good work done, had some really good conversations on my route, and had a very encouraging talk with a believer.
Today specifically I noticed an [...]

So I was out on my language learning route, talking with a lady in a bookstore.  The topic was La Comida de Ticos (Costa Rican Food).  We were in the middle of her describing all different kinds of foods.  I was tracking most of the conversation but my comprehension is slow right now, so its [...]

This trimester I am doing the same FARO program that Brian is doing. So far, I absolutely love it. I have some very kind and very-willing-to-help people on my route that I talk with twice a week. All of them work in or own a store of some sort in our neighborhood [...]