Mérida Moment: Leading Worship
Feb 20th 2008DaveDevotional & Language & Ministry
Even after a year and a half in Mérida, God still wants to stretch us and help us respond to the opportunities all around us.
Archive for the 'Language' Category
Watch your language!
Jan 12th 2007DaveLanguage & Ministry & Missions
Are we thinking about the words that come out of our mouths? One student’s story shows us the need to watch what we say.
Graduation
Aug 13th 2006DaveLanguage & Progress
Yes, we have finally made it to the end of our language school experience. This Friday, Kelly and I, along with 15 other missionaries and university students graduated from the CINCEL program. More later, but we’ve got to get some sleep. We just finished packing and we leave for the airport at […]
Final Exam
Jul 27th 2006DaveLanguage & Prayer
Keeping with our theme of lasts, we’d appreciate your prayers today (Friday) as we go through our “final exam” here at CINCEL. Kelly and I will each be sitting down with a professor for a “conversation” of sorts in order to plot our oral proficiency in Spanish. That’s the reason for the photo […]
Giving Back
Jul 16th 2006DaveLanguage & Ministry & Progress
As language school students for the past year, we’ve had the benefit of taking a lot from the people around us. We’ve received 4 hours a day of lessons, we’ve stopped people along the street, in shopping malls, and in church in order to have conversations, and we’ve received advice and insight into the […]
The tongue…
May 24th 2006DaveDay2Day & Language & Progress
A thing for talking. A thing for taming. A thing for tasting?
It’s funny how things seem to tie together in one’s life, but I recently came upon an interesting convergence of sorts. I was planning for my first Spanish Bible Study, and I was reading in James 3:1-12 where James talks about the tongue […]
All good things…
Apr 23rd 2006DaveDay2Day & Language & Missions & Progress & Thanks
They say, all good things in life must come to and end, and life in language school is no different. There were a several things that came to an end in the past week that we’d like to fill you in on.
First of all, the trimester of school finished this Friday when we […]
Sometimes Language School is hanging on for dear life.
Apr 2nd 2006DaveCostaRica & Language & Nature
Sometimes, we are on top of the world and think that fluency in Spanish is within our grasp. Other times, we are somewhat like Josh Amiot, hanging on for dear life!
This is the stage that we find ourselves in this week. We are now passing through our “ECHO”s, or Spanish conversation proficiency exams, during which […]
Que Vergüenza
Mar 16th 2006DaveDay2Day & Language
Vergüenza is the Spanish word for embarrassment, and a classmate and I had a somewhat embarrassing run-in with the law today. As I had mentioned in my post on tarea, one of assignments in CINCEL is to talk with the people that we meet in San José. Ron Marcotte, missionary to Ecuador, and I were […]
Tarea
Jan 26th 2006DaveDay2Day & Devotional & Language
Tarea (f)
(Spanish) Work that needs to be done in a limited time (eg. homework)
Homework has been the key word for the past few weeks here in Costa Rica as we continue through our second trimester at CINCEL. And as you can see from the stack of books, there won’t be any let up in sight […]
