{"id":815,"date":"2014-08-11T22:12:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T04:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/?p=815"},"modified":"2014-08-11T22:14:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T04:14:24","slug":"day-19-of-21-done-with-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/2014\/08\/11\/day-19-of-21-done-with-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 19 of 21: Done with language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day has finally come\u2026we have passed our language tests!\u00a0 And it feels so AWESOME!\u00a0 Our missionary friends who gave us the test said, \u201cThey are proficient at everything we throw at them!\u201d\u00a0 We will never be \u201cDONE\u201d learning pidgin; we will always be learners.\u00a0 But after 5 months of learning the national language and culture, we have the green light to move forward.\u00a0 So the next step will be prayerfully deciding on a tribe, plans to allocate, and start learning the tribal language (verrrrry hard)!\u00a0 If only it would take 5 months to learn the tribal language!<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-815 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/files\/2014\/08\/IMG_2163-e1407816370299.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/files\/2014\/08\/IMG_2163-e1407816370299-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-816\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-816'>\n\t\t\t\tCelebrating!  And being dorks!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/files\/2014\/08\/IMG_2164-e1407816499925.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/files\/2014\/08\/IMG_2164-e1407816499925-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-817\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-817'>\n\t\t\t\tFeeling good!  BJ can now shave his mountain man beard!  And just for the record&#8230;I was dressed first!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>We are very excited to be moving forward in this crazy life that God has called us to!!<\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, a message to you in the national language here in PNG:<\/p>\n<p>Hapi nun brata na susa! \u00a0Hey, mi amamas no gut tru lo yupela ridim dispela pas long laptop. \u00a0Na mi amamas yupela betin lo mipela algeta taim. \u00a0Papa God i ben lukautim mi, taim mi stap long Papaua New Guinea. \u00a0Mi likim dispela ples, tasol, mi misim yupela long America. \u00a0Sumpela taim, mipela bai kum bak na lukim yupela! \u00a0Arait nau, mi mus go na lukautim pikinini bilong mi! \u00a0Lukimu!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day has finally come\u2026we have passed our language tests!\u00a0 And it feels so AWESOME!\u00a0 Our missionary friends who gave us the test said, \u201cThey are proficient at everything we throw at them!\u201d\u00a0 We will never be \u201cDONE\u201d learning pidgin; we will always be learners.\u00a0 But after 5 months of learning the national language and [&hellip;]<\/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":[21942,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-21-days-in-the-tribe","7":"category-ministry","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}