Stanley house tour
Since we’re all settled in now we thought, why not go for a tour of our house?
As Elijah Despaired Hidden Under a Tree, so I Despaired Hidden in my Pantry
I’ve always thought of myself as flexible and pretty laid back, able to go with the flow pretty easily. The thing about growth is that perhaps we may find that our image of ourselves hasn’t properly been tested, and that hardship may peel away our veneer to reveal character flaws that had been hidden underneath ease and comfort.
Injury, sickness and death
It’s been a tough week for our community with back to back “hevis”. There have been a number of injuries, a serious sickness and a death in a nearby village and we’ve had a week of being involved medically more than normal.
Traveling in the Days of Covid
Well we are in America on home assignment and one question which keeps coming up is, “What was it like traveling during Covid?” Well let me tell you:
What I did last Friday
Today I put in more than 8 hours of language learning time! Thanks to Steve for looking after Oscar 🙂
I started off looking at the sunrise this morning, which I intended to do on my own, but a dog saw me and started barking, so people got up and came to me wondering what stranger was sitting on the field in the middle of the night… They thought it was weird for me to look at the sun coming up. But I learned some interesting language from it. And the sunrise was so pretty!
Jungle conkers
A huge advantage of getting out on the trail is that new things come up constantly. On today’s hike I paid attention to what the kids were foraging for while we were walking along. While we hike kids are constantly in the bushes either side of the trail looking for different things. One thing they got their hands on was the curly shoot of a particular tree.
They gathered a bunch of them and played a game similar to conkers that we play in England.
First consultant check
This week was an exciting change of pace. It was the first time in 8 weeks we’ve had a helicopter land here so we could see other faces 🙂 Two CLA (culture and language learning) consultants stayed with us for 2 days to both check our language ability and answer questions we have about the language learning process.