The above is me on Tito´s horse. Tito is one of 4 believers on the island of Butachauques. We stay with him and his wife Sara when we are there to visit the believers and teach in the school.Hello dear friends from a very rainy and very gray Quemchi.
We are now settled into our cabana in Quemchi on the island of Chiloe. Wednesday was our first day of English class in the school. Wednesday we were with 6th graders. We had a good time. Afterwards, we talked some with the teacher who was extremely excited that we were there. She is a very neat lady. She was telling us, though, how she would love to learn English better. The wild thing is, she’s teaching English, but she has had to teach herself from books! I can’t imagine how hard that would be! She has been teaching for 34 years in this school.
Thursday we were with 8th graders. Both teachers, Teresa and Marcia, with whom we’re working are very positive women who care about their students. It will be a blessing to work alongside them these next few months. We invited Teresa up to our home for dinner or coffee and she also invited us to her home; she is only available over the week-long vacation the end of this month though. The school is trying to get a whole school year crammed into less months because of construction and a new school, so the days are a bit longer, and they have classes on Saturday, too. On top of that, many of the teachers come from the city of Castro everyday, which is an hour and a half drive each way! So, as you can imagine, they are all a bit overwhelmed right now.
We are getting familiar with the town and starting to meet people.
We know God is here in Quemchi, and we are keeping our eyes open to see just what all He’s up to here.
Time to put on my rain gear and tromp on down the hillside to the internet café!
(P.S. We have discovered how out-of-shape we are… the return trip from downtown is all straight uphill, and we have yet to make it up without panting.)
We are now settled into our cabana in Quemchi on the island of Chiloe. Wednesday was our first day of English class in the school. Wednesday we were with 6th graders. We had a good time. Afterwards, we talked some with the teacher who was extremely excited that we were there. She is a very neat lady. She was telling us, though, how she would love to learn English better. The wild thing is, she’s teaching English, but she has had to teach herself from books! I can’t imagine how hard that would be! She has been teaching for 34 years in this school.
Thursday we were with 8th graders. Both teachers, Teresa and Marcia, with whom we’re working are very positive women who care about their students. It will be a blessing to work alongside them these next few months. We invited Teresa up to our home for dinner or coffee and she also invited us to her home; she is only available over the week-long vacation the end of this month though. The school is trying to get a whole school year crammed into less months because of construction and a new school, so the days are a bit longer, and they have classes on Saturday, too. On top of that, many of the teachers come from the city of Castro everyday, which is an hour and a half drive each way! So, as you can imagine, they are all a bit overwhelmed right now.
We are getting familiar with the town and starting to meet people.
We know God is here in Quemchi, and we are keeping our eyes open to see just what all He’s up to here.
Time to put on my rain gear and tromp on down the hillside to the internet café!
(P.S. We have discovered how out-of-shape we are… the return trip from downtown is all straight uphill, and we have yet to make it up without panting.)
3 comments:
Praise the Lord! Sounds like things are going awesome Bekii. I found out this week that Rugby is fairly big in Chile. However I somehow doubt that they have a team on your island. Maybe that could be another outreach...
Hey Bekki!! It sounds like you're going to have a great time there. I'm so excited for you! I know who Tito is, that's so cool. Have you met Juvinal and Latisia yet? We stayed with them.
Did Travis tell ya that I'm getting married?! Yup! Crazy eh?
Hope you're having a good day. Blessings to you.
hey, hey!!
sounds like you guys haven't wasted any time getting busy. are you ok? just wondering how our newest co workers were doing....
take care, and see you next week!
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