Posted on 16th March 2010 by Josué in Missionaries
blog, college, english, gospel, italki, la uni, language, Missions, twitter
Just today I ran a search in Twitter for “Christ Argentina” to see what results might come up. Lo and behold I stumbled upon a blog post about Scotty Jackson. From what I understand, Scott is a missionary in Córdoba to the university students. What a great place to minister! I, for a fact, know that there are many students in Córdoba. I have met many several students at the language school via iTalki.com, a site for people learning languages. They love to talk to people who are native English speakers to practice their English. It is a great way to be able to share the gospel with the students.
I wanted to share this with you because I love to see other means of sharing the gospel and thought that it might be of interest to you also. This is a great way to share the gospel specifically – especially to single people. While Hannah and I plan to do more of tent-making, this is a great field for those who want to invest their lives into the lives of students through the attraction of English. So, check out Scotty’s blog called “Livin’ the Adventure“. I am looking forward to keeping up with it.
Hasta luego,
- Josué
Posted on 12th March 2010 by Josué in Differences
conversion, grades, school
So I was reading an article today from Momento 24 about a transvestite who had some struggle with the school system. One of the sentences intrigued me. It said that the boy had a GPA above 9. In the USA we use a GPA score up to 4.0. So I did some brief research and found this grading scale conversion: WES Grade Conversion Guide: Argentina. So, there you have it! Just one of the many differences between the USA and AR.
- Josué
Posted on 11th March 2010 by Josué in Facts
cia, ethnicity, Facts, terrain, weather
Let’s start off with some basics about Argentina. Most people I know don’t know much, if anything, about Argentina. So, here are some of the basic facts that I pulled from the CIA Factbook about Argentina.
- Area-comparative: slightly less than three-tenths the size of the US
- Climate: mostly temperate; arid in southeast; subantarctic in southwest
- Terrain: rich plains of the Pampas in northern half, flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes along western border
- Population: 40,913,584 (July 2009 est.)
- Life expectancy at birth: 76.56 years
- Nationality:
- noun: Argentine(s)
- adjective: Argentine
- Religion: nominally Roman Catholic 92% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%
- Languages: Spanish (official), Italian, English, German, French
- Ethnicity: white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry), Amerindian, or other non-white groups 3%
I know that I didn’t go into much detail, but I thought that maybe this would give a basic understanding of Argentina.
Chau!
- Josué
Posted on 11th March 2010 by Josué in General Info
¡Bienvenido! My name is Josh, or Josué in Spanish. I started this blog to share the vision that I have for the gospel in Argentina. Here you will find some of the updates that I have as I come closer to moving to Argentina. You will also find facts, culture differences, and many other things that I have learned while on my endeavor to move to Argentina. So, stay a while and read your fill. Give me some feedback. I would love to hear what you have to say.
