From the Dominican Republic
Get Ready for Some Updates!
Monday, October 31st, 2011For those of you who drop by this blog from time to time you’ll notice we haven’t posted ANYTHING since May 2010 when Jess was interviewed at the Circuit Assembly. That is all about to change! Since we’ve all been receiving such strong encouragement to reach out and examine our circumstances to see if we [...]
Corn Dog El Mudo or How to Be an Entrepreneur
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Anton is never without a hair-brained idea, but I think he really hit the jackpot with this one. Dominicans love fried food. Dominicans love hot dogs. Dominicans love street food. A few Deaf brothers in our congregation desperately need work. Do you see where this is going? Yeah, me neither, but Anton sure did. In [...]
This is why Dominicans are such good baseball players
Monday, July 27th, 2009Here is a fun scene we happened upon after finishing our last study one hot Saturday afternoon. We had to stop and watch of course since there was plenty of good shade under this enormous tree and the kids were more than happy to have their picture taken. At the beginning of the video, when the [...]
Dominican Flora – You Can’t Find this Plant in Michigan
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Very cool random plant outside the pool where we swim! It is a little like a willow tree, but a lot thicker, and the green little stubs are quite hard. I am a botanical person, it’s true, but I don’t know the name of this one!
Leonel is Officially Paving Calle 3 Sin Salida in La Hoya del Caimito
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009For those of you who don’t know better, this is our street. The bulldozer is actually right in front of our house. As you can see, the fixing of the road is the most entertaining thing going on… other than the gringos taking pictures that is… This is an interesting little project to repair the [...]
Video From Anton’s first public talk
Friday, March 27th, 2009I recently was talking with a friend and found out that they had taken a short bit of video when I gave my first public talk. This was the first I saw of myself giving it.
Avocados bigger than your head!!!
Friday, March 27th, 2009We were recently up on the north coast visiting some friends and on the way back, decided to take the scenic route through the mountains instead of the drab highway. I wish we had taken pictures of the view, it was amazing. We will have to the next time we come back that way. When we [...]
Whozawhatzit!?!
Friday, March 27th, 2009Many people are aware that the sign language we use here in the Dominican Republic is very similar to ASL. The congregation of course is ALL ASL since we are officially an ASL congregation. The challenge though lies in using whatever gets the point across in the ministry. A common problem that we face mostly [...]
The Santiago Hockey Team has been outfitted!!!
Sunday, January 4th, 2009Finally, a stick for everyone! No more righties playing left! No more making do with half broken sticks! Today we took delivery of 7 brand new hockey sticks (imported from Canada, manufactured in Ukraine). A good friend and fellow hockey lover/player was so kind as to bring down a bundle of new sticks to get [...]
Just because it’s 80 degrees doesn’t mean we can’t play in the snow
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008So a recent home “adventure” we had included cleaning out our fridge. I know, not a big deal right? Well, it’s a bigger deal for us since our fridge, like all of our other appliances are “semi” automatic. This means that once a month, you have to do like our parents and unplug it, chip all the [...]
Santiago Children’s Hospital – Bring Your Own… Biopsy Needle???
Sunday, October 26th, 2008Over these last couple of weeks I have spent more time in random hospitals and clinics in Santiago than I ever imagined I would. First, a deaf sister from La Vega, a neighboring town, named Roxana was hospitalized and needed round the clock care. She has been back and forth from her city to the [...]
Dominican signing at it’s finest
Thursday, October 9th, 2008So many people are under the conception that here in the Dominican we use ASL (American Sign Language). This is partially true since as a whole, Jehovah’s Witnesses us ASL all over the island in our preaching and meetings. What many don’t realize though is that there is a clear and distinct “Dominican Sign Language” [...]
It’s official, I’m an idiot!
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Well I guess I should have been thinking before I canceled the other hosting account because while I DID pull all of the content from the blog to put onto the new server, I did not think to export the old SQL database so… all the old posts and comments are gone. I guess we [...]