Br. Steve | July 31, 2010
Earlier today I went was able to visit a retreat house and spiritual center run by the local Franciscans in the town of Tarata outside of Cochabamba. The town is about a thirty minute drive from the city and very picturesque – although the effect was somewhat ruined due to the fact that the streets [...]
Br. Steve | July 31, 2010
These are the photos I took during the volunteer site tour I went on last week with the rest of the students in my program. They are mostly from the wood inlay art shop we visited and the surrounding neighborhoods.
Br. Steve | July 31, 2010
It’s been another great week here in Bolivia. I have now finished three weeks of classes and my Spanish continues to improve little by little. My life here also continues to be enjoyable and interesting. As I think I mentioned before I had a new set a professors this week and I like all them. [...]
Br. Steve | July 25, 2010
My classmate Carolyn has a funny compilation of common Spanish mistakes that Gringos make here in Bolivia. This is the product of a class discussion with Professor Oscar, one of our professors during the last two week session. Mistake #2 is mine from my first time at the Maryknoll Language Institute. It occurred in a class [...]
Br. Steve | July 25, 2010
Yesterday we went on a tour of possible volunteer ministry sites here in the city of Cochabamba. Part of the program requires us to do a couple of hours of volunteer ministry, in Spanish of course, after we have completed about a month of classes. The tour yesterday was meant to introduce us to some [...]
Br. Steve | July 23, 2010
Last week I wrote about an Aymara/Catholic prayer service I attended. Here are the photos from that experience.
Br. Steve | July 23, 2010
Some photos of my rooms at the friary here in Cochabamba and the cloister garden.
Br. Steve | July 23, 2010
I am almost at the end of my second week of classes and things continue to go well here in Cochabamba. On Tuesday night I played futbol with some of the Bolivian friars here in the house. Suffice to say I am not in the same kind of shape that they are in and it [...]
Br. Steve | July 20, 2010
Hello Everybody. As you can see on the left I’ve added a widget that displays recent photos from my Flickr account. If you click on the little icon in the title bar you will go to my photostream page. I will try and post new photos in a post on the blog as well, so [...]
