Week 36: Transparent Soap “Runner-Up”!!!

September 24, 2018 

A Highlight this week was service that we were asked to provide at a Catholic High School here in Solo.  There was a 16 year-old girl who had prepared a presentation on three types of transparent soap, for a science fair competition to be held in the community.  Robert and I met one of the School’s Board Members at a restaurant one evening and he asked if we could help on occasions with their students and their English studies at his school.  We told him to call us any time and if we were available we would be happy to help.  They called and asked us to listen and critique a bright science student’s English grammar and pronunciation before she competed.  It was a lot of fun.  We spent 5 hours over two days helping her.  What an amazing young girl. Some of the difficult science terms we clarified.  One of the “funniest” word substitutions was her describing the soap as a hair “fertilizer”.  We helped her change the word to hair “moisturizer”.

She did the entire translation on google translate.  She was so willing to be corrected on some difficult pronunciations for a Native Indonesian speaking English.  She was amazing!  She placed first runner up! We were so proud of her hard work and determination.

Student second from left

School Head Master and teacher

We have the most amazing experiences each week as we serve in Indonesia!