C-O-S-T-A R-I-C-A, Costa Rica!! I have been teaching here for about two weeks and I am learning so much. God has been showing me His costant provision and encouragement. I will let you know now that I will not be able to include pictures in the blog posts I write here in Costa Rica. When I get home I will have a post just with picutures and captions :)
To start off, all my travels went well. I got to sit next to wonderful people on the airplane and bus. This was an answer to prayer. Both were encouraging and they were willing to help me with my Spanish! My Costa Rican host family is very nice and I am learning a lot from them.
The weather here is very humid since we live right off the Caribbean Sea. This is the first time I have seen teal green water. It is beautiful! Most houses and buildings do not have air conditioning. All of us survive with open windows and lots of fans. The school where I am teaching is also this way. There is only glass in some of the windows and the rest are open to the sea breeze.
I didn't have too much time to transition between Wycliffe and teaching here in Costa Rica. I got to spend two days with my family between the end of my Wycliffe experience and before this one. I arrived late last Sunday night and jumped right into teaching an hour and a half lesson the next morning. Phew!
Right now I am teaching at the lower level school. This includes preschool through 3rd grade. I am teaching classes in English language, grammer, spelling, reading and oral English skills. I have been able to work with 1st-3rd grade. I have worked with third graders before but first and second have been an adventure. God is giving me the patience and strength to work with them every day.
I can see how God is working in my heart. In the two weeks I have been here I haved gained an even greater passion for teaching, which I didn't think was possible. God is teaching me to rely more on Him and to let go of things that are pulling me down; things that don't really matter.
The biggest change for me is my view of God's Word. For two months I worked with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Their whole mission is to show the importance of having God's Word in your heart language( this is the language you think, dream, and pray in). However, it wasn't until I was here in a culture where English was not the national lanuguage that I realized the impact of this truth. I read God's Word with news eyes. I know that God understands me and I can understand Him. May God continue to speak to all of us in our heart language!
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