Author: Aaron and Amy Speitelsbach

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 […]

Recently we scheduled a date for finally relocating to our new village in Liberia. We talked to a Truck owner who assured us that he was going to come and pick us up the next morning to move our stuff the 35 miles down the road to the river front. From there we had planned […]

Last week, Aaron spotted this snake crawling into the house from the attic, right above our pantry. Thankfully, he was able to kill it before it had the time to hide in the pantry! It seems that it looks bigger than it is, or so we have been told. It was about 3 feet long […]

We have been living almost 4 months now in a Glaro village. Life is getting more into a routine, and even the “strange” things are starting to get more normal. For example, a Scorpion found his last day on our little front porch last week. And having some alligator meat in the sauce that our […]

About six weeks ago we moved into a Glaro village. We set up our little solar system, hooked up our Gas stove to a bottle and arranged some things in our new house. We are able to use one of the houses the Mission had built back when the first missionaries moved there to work […]