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… flights out of the country became scarce. Roadblocks multiplied to ensure no one with a fever is traveling anywhere. The situation became more and more uncertain. We had planned to come to the US in November, but after much consideration we left earlier to take care of what we were to have done a […]

Early 2014 we had gone back to our village. We continued our language studies and made quite some improvements. It was great to reconnect with friends there and to be able to deepen our relationships with many of the people there. We also learned a ton of new things about what they believe and how […]

After nearly 2 years in West Africa now, we are back in the Western hemisphere for a few months. We certainly do enjoy seeing family, friends and churches once again, even though some people have changed so much that they are hard to recognize…. 🙂 Besides that, we are also looking forward to meeting with […]

This last year we have been busy getting our new house livable and workable, without dropping our language sessions. In June, as soon as the doors and windows were hung, we moved into the construction site. Improvements have been made since then and we have a quite workable house by now. The house is quite […]

We wanted to upload some Glarro listening samples for you for a long time now. Finally, we got around to it. Now you can try out your tonal language abilities! But hey, don’t be disappointed if you don’t hear any difference. It takes time to tune your ears. But I can assure you, any Glarro person does […]

We have been back in the country for about 6 months now. Not much has changed since then, we are still continuing to learn the Glarro language which remains quite challenging in spite of the progress that we made so far. But as you can imagine, with a growing vocabulary, we also get more and […]

We just spent the last 6 months with friends and family in the U.S. and Germany. We were very much refreshed and had a great time. But, all good things must come to an end, and since the end of November, we are back at it in Africa. Our first 3 weeks back in the […]

In January 2011, we moved from a village in Ivory Coast, West Africa to a smaller village in Liberia, West Africa. The main reason for this move is that there is a higher concentration of Glaro people living in Liberia, and this is vital to our further understanding of their language and culture, and to […]

A young man in our village killed this 8-9 foot crocodile in the local river. We have been having second thoughts about swimming there ever since. This was our pet chameleon of one day until it ran away…

We eventually did manage to rent a new moving truck. So, on Tuesday, January 11th, we began our move to our new village in Liberia. After several hours on the road, we arrived as close to the river as we could get, unloaded and hauled the luggage the rest of the way, crossed it over […]