{"id":1101,"date":"2017-04-27T10:52:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T15:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2021-12-06T16:55:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:55:05","slug":"can-you-teach-an-old-dog-new-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2017\/04\/27\/can-you-teach-an-old-dog-new-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you teach an old dog new tricks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>These days I\u2019m feeling very old, since last month I had my big 3-0 birthday.\u00a0 It feels like I have to be an adult now and maybe even be grown up?\u00a0 Crazy!\u00a0 But even though I\u2019m old, it doesn\u2019t mean that I\u2019m done learning.\u00a0 In fact, I\u2019m currently in Tanzania, where next week I\u2019ll start two more weeks of training.\u00a0 It\u2019s on discourse analysis, and if you have a super good memory (maybe you haven\u2019t hit the big 3-0 yet?), you may remember that in December of 2015 I was in the US for two weeks studying the same thing.\u00a0 This time, I get to learn it even more thoroughly so that hopefully one day, when the people who are teaching it (and helping missionaries around the world with this aspect of their ministry) get old (even older than the big 3-0!) and have to retire, I may be able to help take over for them, though I\u2019m sure I couldn\u2019t do nearly as good of a job as they do. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0So see, not only am I, an old dog, learning new tricks, I\u2019m getting ready to pass them on to others. \u00a0(If you want to know what discourse analysis is, check out a past blog where I wrote it about the last training: https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2016\/01\/02\/what-is-discourse-analysis<\/a>)<\/p>\n

And speaking of passing things on to others, earlier this month I was in another country for a week training 2 co-workers (who are also older than the big 3-0) in PGA.\u00a0 You probably remember what that is, since I used to write about it a lot.\u00a0 It has nothing to do with golf (though I did see a golf course during my time there), but instead stands for People Group Assessment, and it\u2019s NTM\u2019s way of trying to find out which people groups are in the most dire need of missionaries.\u00a0 I used to spend a lot of time on it, but now that I\u2019m more focused on My People I don\u2019t have the time for PGA like I used to.\u00a0 So these co-workers are willing to take over a lot of the leg-work.\u00a0 I\u2019m so glad!<\/p>\n

Now, you might be wondering what in the world is happening with My People since it sounds like I\u2019m just traveling all over Africa, and you\u2019re right.\u00a0 April is the hottest month of the year, so I always seem to look for excuses to be gone at least part of the month. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0But that doesn\u2019t mean that I\u2019ve ignored My People this whole month, either.\u00a0 In fact, right before Easter I was in My Village for the wedding of my host mom\u2019s son!\u00a0 A wedding is a multiple day affair (see a blog post about a previous wedding: https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2017\/02\/07\/a-culture-game<\/a>), and I enjoyed being there for that experience.\u00a0 (Although I have to admit that even though I don\u2019t like fish, I was very happy the last day when I was able to change in the sauce that they had originally given me for fish sauce, since the first one was goat brain sauce and I was not a fan!)\u00a0 Language learning is progressing as is getting my house built (see the latest pictures of my house here: https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2017\/04\/18\/update-on-house-progress<\/a>), and I look forward to getting back there, and hopefully even moving into a finished house shortly after I get back to My Country the middle of May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These days I\u2019m feeling very old, since last month I had my big 3-0 birthday.\u00a0 It feels like I have to be an adult now and maybe even be grown up?\u00a0 Crazy!\u00a0 But even though I\u2019m old, it doesn\u2019t mean that I\u2019m done learning.\u00a0 In fact, I\u2019m currently in Tanzania, where next week I\u2019ll start […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"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":[1],"tags":[448],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-ethnos360","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}