{"id":277,"date":"2011-10-25T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/?p=277"},"modified":"2011-10-25T20:05:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T00:05:33","slug":"october-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/2011\/10\/25\/october-26\/","title":{"rendered":"October 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Me: “Where are we going?”<\/p>\n

Another Missionary: “Pungwa’s place.”<\/p>\n

Me: “Where’s that?”<\/p>\n

Him: “I don’t know.”<\/p>\n

Me: “When are we coming back?”<\/p>\n

Him: “I don’t know.”<\/p>\n

Myself and the three other guys also in the pidgin learning stage were invited to one of the national’s house this past Saturday.\u00a0 We didn’t really know where we were going or how long we would be there.\u00a0 A kind veteran missionary also informs us that when he was learning pidgin he got invited out by some nationals too.\u00a0 Once, he was gone for three days.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, we were only gone for four hours.\u00a0 We hopped on a PMV (Public Motor Vehicle), the cheapest way to travel around here, and twenty minutes later we arrived in Pungwa’s village.\u00a0 They pulled out some logs for us to sit on as fifteen to twenty people, both young and old, gathered around.\u00a0 Awkward silence ensued.<\/p>\n

The four of us “Nupela” (new) missionaries are limited in our ability to communicate in the local language but after a little bit we were conversing away in our poor broken pidgin gesturing and pointing to aid the process of communication.\u00a0 We were fed some delicious bananas and kau kau (sweet potato, though unlike America’s sweet potatoes), and enjoyed our time immensely.<\/p>\n

We are in the next phase of language learning now.\u00a0 Our orientation is over and we’re pretty much on our own to learn the language.\u00a0 We go visit people’s houses and invite others over to our house.\u00a0 We spend hours poring over our notes and other study materials.\u00a0 This is our life for the next 16 weeks.\u00a0 Every four weeks we’ll be evaluated to see how we’re progressing.\u00a0 My goal is to not fall too far behind my too-smart wife.\u00a0 :’ )<\/p>\n

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