Our visits to the village
Our language "warm up" time, when we get used to hearing Tok Pigin and begin trying to understand it, involves us going into the village as much as possible. This trip some kids had caught a parrot, so it was a bit more interesting for our kids!
Soon our trips into the village will have more of a plan and a purpose. For example we might try to get specific nouns, tenses, or verbs. From there we can come back home to process the language and culture we picked up and file it on the computer. Then we can come up with more specific things we have questions about for the next time we go into the village.
Jonathan is expected to work on language about 8 hours a day while I'm told to put in as much as I can. With 4 little ones of course this sounds tough!
Please pray we will balance family, language learning, and living wisely!
Caleb does really well with letting the nationals hold him! They love his white skin!
They also love Olivia's chubby thighs! I had a couple meri blouses made for me... here is one of them I had made sleaveless!
Soon our trips into the village will have more of a plan and a purpose. For example we might try to get specific nouns, tenses, or verbs. From there we can come back home to process the language and culture we picked up and file it on the computer. Then we can come up with more specific things we have questions about for the next time we go into the village.
Jonathan is expected to work on language about 8 hours a day while I'm told to put in as much as I can. With 4 little ones of course this sounds tough!
Please pray we will balance family, language learning, and living wisely!
Caleb does really well with letting the nationals hold him! They love his white skin!
They also love Olivia's chubby thighs! I had a couple meri blouses made for me... here is one of them I had made sleaveless!
posted by Jackson Family at 10:18 PM
5 Comments:
It was so good to hear your voices the other evening while you were chatting with Mum. Glad to hear that Zoe has many more 4 year old friends, and that both her and Caleb like their new beds, it was very sweet to listen to the sound of their voices on this side of the world. Love you, Beth for the Eves
loved all the new pics! and so glad your stuff arrived. what a relief and an encouragement. will be praying for you as you balance language and family and everything else - I completely understand that struggle...
Hey guys!it was alot of fun hearing the kids last night! Evie sounds so much older!it's really pretty here right now the tree colors are really nice this year, ok I'll talk to you later! Love, ~*~Leah~*~
So exited that you guy's are there. Just wanted to let you know that we're praying for you every week!
Love,
The Kanes
Mis,
You guys look like you are getting into it there! How exciting! It's encouraging for me to see and read about what you guys are doing - We're getting ready to do our "Live Language" here, and it's good to know that the same principles apply out there!
Be encouraged!
-Shelley
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