I wanted to use part of today’s blog to profile another of our students; Daniel.
Daniel (pronounced closer to Danielle than our English Daniel) is 26 years old and is from Santiago, Chile. Daniel lives at home with his 21 year old brother. His educational background is computer science and he currently has an IT (information technology) job with a company in Chile. He has worked well with his language helper John who also works in the IT field. Daniel and John even speak a third common language as I’ve listened to them talk their computer language during language helper time.
Daniel is a quiet young man who is always thinking and asking questions. He wants to learn English and would like to see the English Bridge program come to Chile. Daniel will be traveling to a Muslim country in October. He asked that I not put his last name or his actual destination on the internet since the area of the world he will be going to is not open to Christian evangelism. Once there, Daniel will be officially working for a university and unofficially with other missionaries inside the country.
Daniel, along with Ricardo, is one of our two guitarists during morning worship. I am always amazed and envious of people with musical talent and Daniel and Ricardo are as good as any I’ve seen. I mentioned in a previous blog that we were teaching new chorus songs to the students during our morning worship time. Yesterday we had written out the words to Chris Tomlin’s “Holy is the Lord”. Neither of them had heard the song before but after a half an hour of listening to the song on an iPod, and listening to John and I sing (although I doubt that helped much), they had pretty much figured out how to play the song on the guitar. They even had to improvise a fret for their guitar to play the song properly…so…an eraser, felt tip marker and rubber band later the problem was solved. This morning during worship you would have never guessed that Daniel had never heard the song before last night.
Today in class, after learning about meats, the students were given their roles for the next skit they will perform in class. Last week with Team 1, the students performed ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Next week, the students will perform ‘The Three Little Pigs’ for us. Roles were passed out to the students today and they will have a week to rehearse, prepare costumes and props for their performance. Check back late next week for photos from the show.
Daniel (pronounced closer to Danielle than our English Daniel) is 26 years old and is from Santiago, Chile. Daniel lives at home with his 21 year old brother. His educational background is computer science and he currently has an IT (information technology) job with a company in Chile. He has worked well with his language helper John who also works in the IT field. Daniel and John even speak a third common language as I’ve listened to them talk their computer language during language helper time.
Daniel is a quiet young man who is always thinking and asking questions. He wants to learn English and would like to see the English Bridge program come to Chile. Daniel will be traveling to a Muslim country in October. He asked that I not put his last name or his actual destination on the internet since the area of the world he will be going to is not open to Christian evangelism. Once there, Daniel will be officially working for a university and unofficially with other missionaries inside the country.
Daniel, along with Ricardo, is one of our two guitarists during morning worship. I am always amazed and envious of people with musical talent and Daniel and Ricardo are as good as any I’ve seen. I mentioned in a previous blog that we were teaching new chorus songs to the students during our morning worship time. Yesterday we had written out the words to Chris Tomlin’s “Holy is the Lord”. Neither of them had heard the song before but after a half an hour of listening to the song on an iPod, and listening to John and I sing (although I doubt that helped much), they had pretty much figured out how to play the song on the guitar. They even had to improvise a fret for their guitar to play the song properly…so…an eraser, felt tip marker and rubber band later the problem was solved. This morning during worship you would have never guessed that Daniel had never heard the song before last night.
Today in class, after learning about meats, the students were given their roles for the next skit they will perform in class. Last week with Team 1, the students performed ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Next week, the students will perform ‘The Three Little Pigs’ for us. Roles were passed out to the students today and they will have a week to rehearse, prepare costumes and props for their performance. Check back late next week for photos from the show.
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