{"id":621,"date":"2014-03-24T04:22:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T10:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/?p=621"},"modified":"2014-03-24T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T17:13:54","slug":"language-checks-birthdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/2014\/03\/24\/language-checks-birthdays\/","title":{"rendered":"Language checks & birthdays!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month has been an exciting month here in PNG!\u00a0 We\u2019ve had 4 (BJ, Jill, Jeremy, & Graham) birthdays and our first language checks!\u00a0 Birthday celebrations have always been important to me, so we have been partying a lot!\u00a0 Our partying consist of dinner, cake, and friends!\u00a0 Although BJ did take me out to lunch on my birthday to a local Asian place, and then we went to this \u201cstore\u201d that had some random stuff in it!\u00a0 BJ bought some hair clippers (for his bday), and I saw a vitamix for 2000 kina\u2026which would be about $1000!\u00a0 So I settled on a magnetic notepad for my fridge!<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve been learning the language now for about 6 weeks, and last week we had our first language check.\u00a0 We sit down with some leaders and our language helper and they \u201cevaluate\u201d us!\u00a0 It\u2019s not really a test, just to check our progress and give us some suggestions.\u00a0 We both are doing great (which is a little comforting, thinking we might go to one of the hardest languages!)\u00a0 There are basically 12 levels, Basic, Progressing, Capable, and Proficient, with low-mid-high for each.\u00a0 They want us to be at level 9 (capable high) when we leave here\u2026the rest of the levels will be completed as we continue on!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So\u2026I checked in at basic high, and BJ checked in at Progressing mid!\u00a0 (Check out the chart for all of you visual people!)<\/p>\n

Please pray for us:
\n-for us to continue learning the language well
\n-for God to give us peace, if we are to continue pursuing a specific tribe
\nAnd always:
\n-for our marriage
\n-for our children
\n-for safety and good health!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This month has been an exciting month here in PNG!\u00a0 We\u2019ve had 4 (BJ, Jill, Jeremy, & Graham) birthdays and our first language checks!\u00a0 Birthday celebrations have always been important to me, so we have been partying a lot!\u00a0 Our partying consist of dinner, cake, and friends!\u00a0 Although BJ did take me out to lunch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":956,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-ministry","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}