I’ve done my share of improvising.<\/p>\n
One day I took Hannah to Sunday School in Calgary, and there was no teacher. So I taught a Sunday School lesson, crafts and all. How did it go? Ask the kids. You remember the time I lost the song<\/a> I was going to sing, and I did one I hadn’t practised.<\/p>\nMany years ago I was in Apatzingan, Mexico. I had only an hour to prepare a sermon. I sat down to get started, when someone came to tell me that we had misunderstood when the service was – it was now<\/i>! Somehow the Lord got me through that one! At least that time it was in English (I was being translated).<\/p>\nLast week we were talking about some Christian history topics in conversation class. I brought in a timeline so that we could see some things in context. I was being asked about some numbers on my timeline, and I said they were just for a seminar I taught (2000 Years of Missions<\/b>). "Oh, you should teach us!" Ha ha, sure. I don’t have nearly<\/i> enough Spanish for such a thing. Maybe in a few years.<\/p>\n"No, really – you should teach us. What do you think?" "Sure, yeah, he should".<\/p>\nYeah, hah hah… whatever you want.<\/p>\nYou can see where this is going, can’t you?<\/b> After all my joking affirmation, my teacher was making plans and asking what I needed and planning where we could do it. So this week, apparently, I have 8 hours of teaching time (2 hours each day- today, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday). After I’d said sure, whatever you want<\/i> so many times, I wasn’t sure how to refuse.<\/p>\nNow, of course, I won’t really<\/i> be teaching. I’ll be standing there introducing topics and asking how to say this and that. I’m the one who knows the least Spanish in the class, and of course I’ll need words that aren’t in the dictionary – names, places, terminology.<\/p>\nIt’s ok, not only have I improvised before, I’ve also embarrassed myself before. Often. Daily. I’m used to it. And now I can do it for 8 solid hours. 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Many years ago I was in Apatzingan, Mexico. I had only an hour to prepare a sermon. I sat down to get started, when someone came to tell me that we had misunderstood when the service was – it was now<\/i>! Somehow the Lord got me through that one! At least that time it was in English (I was being translated).<\/p>\n
Last week we were talking about some Christian history topics in conversation class. I brought in a timeline so that we could see some things in context. I was being asked about some numbers on my timeline, and I said they were just for a seminar I taught (2000 Years of Missions<\/b>). "Oh, you should teach us!" Ha ha, sure. I don’t have nearly<\/i> enough Spanish for such a thing. Maybe in a few years.<\/p>\n
"No, really – you should teach us. What do you think?" "Sure, yeah, he should".<\/p>\n
Yeah, hah hah… whatever you want.<\/p>\n
You can see where this is going, can’t you?<\/b> After all my joking affirmation, my teacher was making plans and asking what I needed and planning where we could do it. So this week, apparently, I have 8 hours of teaching time (2 hours each day- today, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday). After I’d said sure, whatever you want<\/i> so many times, I wasn’t sure how to refuse.<\/p>\n
Now, of course, I won’t really<\/i> be teaching. I’ll be standing there introducing topics and asking how to say this and that. I’m the one who knows the least Spanish in the class, and of course I’ll need words that aren’t in the dictionary – names, places, terminology.<\/p>\n
It’s ok, not only have I improvised before, I’ve also embarrassed myself before. Often. Daily. I’m used to it. And now I can do it for 8 solid hours. They teach conversation in this school – why don’t they have a course on keeping your mouth shut?<\/p>\n
This post was inspired by a post by Andrew Comings<\/a> in which he shared this video of Danish musician and comedian Victor Borge. Talk about improvisation. Borge was a brilliant musician, and could think fast even at 80 years old. Of course, he already knew the language – of music…<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’ve done my share of improvising. One day I took Hannah to Sunday School in Calgary, and there was no teacher. So I taught a Sunday School lesson, crafts and all. How did it go? Ask the kids. 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