When I first started teaching ESL I prayed that I’d be a good teacher and that the ladies would be good learners. But as the weeks went by I found myself praying almost and only for God to give me opportunities to tell them about Jesus. If you’ve been reading this blog, you’ve noticed that [...]
Archive for June, 2007
29 Jun
Out of Food
Hey. So I’m out of food. Well, not because I don’t have money but because I’ve had no time to do grocery shopping.
“That was harsh!” these are the words that came out of my mouth after reading John 5 today. I had never noticed it before, but Jesus is “cru” (French for “raw”) with the [...]
24 Jun
La Gare Centrale
Two situations happened to me yesterday. Both were somewhat similar, but my attitude was really different in each of them.
1. I worked from 10 to 5. We always stay an hour or so after the store closes to clean up and etc. It was 6:30 and we were done, standing around waiting for our supervisor [...]
23 Jun
Why oh Why
I taught ESL today.
One of my students arrived quite early so it gave us the opportunity to chat a little bit. To me, she appears to be the most “religious” one. Simply by the way she dresses and the way she talks about God, calling Him “Le Dieu” (The God). I asked her what she [...]
21 Jun
honored – à la fromage.
Tranche de vie / Life Slice
So today around 4:20 I finished my last little test on the computer at Value Village. My result was automatically printed, I got up and brought the sheet to my supervisor. Actually, I wasn’t sure if the lady who’s been around me all the time was my actual supervisor, so [...]
20 Jun
2 days in Canada
Hey.
So tonight I was pretty tired. Not that I worked a lot in the afternoon, but it’s just the fact of starting a new job that is somewhat stressful. THE thing that really made me feel lost was this situation:
On Sunday, my supervisor asked me twice if I preferred speaking English. I told her I [...]
18 Jun
a few random things
Saturday my two roomies-to-be and I went paint shopping. We sort of knew what we wanted for colors, but you know how they have hundreds of shades of the same color… yeah. So it took a little while. I really didn’t know what color to paint my room and I felt like leaving it [...]
16 Jun
the BAPTISTERY
To be honest I had no clue what was the translation for “baptistère” in English. Viva Interneta. Anyways I found myself in a baptistery today. I mean, literally.
I taught English this afternoon and it was pretty warm on the second floor of the church. So I said to the ladies that the church should have [...]
13 Jun
Poverty?
Tonight was the GBUC d’été (university and cegep people getting together for singing, fellowship, discussions, bible studies…) anyways, tonight we talked about the issue of poverty here in Québec, well more here in Montréal and a wee bit on poverty in the rest of the world.
We had some good discussions about poverty, what it means, [...]
12 Jun
There’s a sort of lighting that I don’t like. Like the one in the room right now.
There’s a lot on my mind right now. I shut the door of the church building tonight after teaching ESL and I looked up to where people wait for the bus and recognized some ladies standing there with their heads covered and wearing thick clothes as if it was late november. So I got into [...]
