It’s now Tuesday night and I’ve been in Ecuador for three full days. The last two have consisted of four hours of Spanish in the morning and three to four hours of Spanish in the afternoon, followed by a jaunt to the internet café with friends before supper at seven. I fortunately got placed in the advanced class with eleven other wonderful people who speak good Spanish and one very skilled profesora. It takes a lot of energy to stay focused for so long—especially in the afternoon, even with a caffeine pill keeping me tachycardic. I’m learning a lot but realize that I need to be practicing it more. Enter clinical preceptorship. Tomorrow and Thursday mornings, I go with one other student to a clinic in the north part of town to experience, learn, and contribute what I can. I’ll be keeping a little notepad of stuff I learn and will fill you all in on how it goes this weekend.
Catching you all up reminds me that we always pluck out a select few details to mention in our conversations and other communications. In the case of this blog, I choose the details I think will be most interesting and rewarding to my audience. And though hopefully most of our conversations are uplifting, we miss so many opportunities to great things with our words. The audience for my words today was often new acquaintances to whom I came as a blank slate. What an opportunity! Please pray that even tonight—or whenever you read this post—I would use my words to make stuff better.
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