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Once upon a time, a fair maiden sailed to a land far across the sea, in great hopes of sharing the best news in the world with a people yet unknown to herself. Arriving on these dusty shores, she got to work, learning how to survive. Fast forward 5 years, and all was finally going […]

Wow.  Ten graduate credits in nine weeks.  All related to what I’m doing in My Country – linguistics and translation and such.  It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun and really good, too.  And besides the 1000+ pages I read or all the papers and projects I did, I learned a […]

    Do you see these two lovely pictures? The one with 6 nice ellipses is what the vowels looked like in a language we did a recent Acoustic Phonetics class project on. The other one where it’s all a mess? That’s what vowels in My Language look like. Even if you have no idea […]

Some people learn boring things in grad school, and I guess I’ve learned some, too, but here are a few fun things I’ve learned this week:   By the time a baby is 12-months-old, their babblings are different based on the language that they hear around them. I learned about the McGurk Effect, where your […]

Do you see the picture above?  Can you tell what it’s a picture of?  If any of you have worked with a/v, you may recognize the top part as being sound waves, and you’d be right. The one on the left is the sound wave of a speaker saying the noun version of the word […]

"The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit." (Psalm 34:18) Yesterday I received the news that on Thursday Rachida past from this world to the next. Thank you to all of you who have faithfully walked this journey with us over the past two years. And even though Rachida’s life […]

One of the perks of missionaries having to travel around a lot during their home assignment (furlough) time is that sometimes we get to visit fun tourist attractions. One of those that I visited lately with my friend Heather and her mom was Jamestown Settlement in Virginia. We learned a lot about the settlers who […]

Hi from the US!  Isn’t that fun to say? I’ve been working with words all day, trying to get the word list of My Language out of my notebook and onto my computer, so let me share some numbers with you as a break from words: 1 – I’ve been in the US just over […]

I just talked to Awa, Rachida’s mom!  She said that today they got the results back from the “scanner” (CAT scan? MRI?) that had been ordered a while ago.  She said that there are lots of masses in Rachida’s brain, but that it’s from the injections, not from cancer.  But she said that she doesn’t […]

Thanks for your continued prayers for Rachida. I heard more news today, though when I tried to call and talk to Rachida’s mom, grandma, or great-aunt, I wasn’t able to get through to any of them. But I heard that it looks like the cancer has metastasized to her brain and she is in pain. […]