Category: Training

The truth is I actually don’t know what these are officially called, but they make a really good snack. They also make a good “cultural event” as we like to call it in NTM, and a good language lesson, and a good opportunity for new friendship. This is Ivanete, who is in charge of hospitality […]

Above: My language helper, Louise, (middle), my language partner, Julie (left), and Cali and I at an appreciation dinner we put on for all of our Cherokee language helpers. Below: A Friday afternoon after language session – Jevon cutting a rotisserie chicken for a picnic in Louise’s backyard.  And that is my mom in the […]

By now most of you have gotten our newsletter by mail, so we will avoid redundancy here. We are all doing well.   Each morning we have to muster a bit of courage to tackle the day, with Jevon putting in his hours as a tech intern, Danica grappling with linguistics puzzles, and morning sickness […]

We made it back safe and sound. Our overloaded car (Ebenezar) is resting in the quiet parking lot by our fourplex, emptied and satisfied with a good days work. The clock at the bank gave us a triple digit number for temp, so that was a little foreboding, but we had good eager brothers make […]

A Word on Motivation 9:40 am, Thursday.  Culture and Language Aquisition Methodology Class.  Our instructor was running us through our upcoming homework assignments.  “Oh,” he added, “and there’s a checksheet to mark off your reading assignments when you finish them.  So,” he said wryly, “if you don’t care if people hear the gospel, you can […]