Saw Making Class
After class each day I typically spend my afternoon involved with the work detail program. Sometimes this involves classes where we get to learn something practical… like making and sharpening saws! Play Quicktime version Play Flash version Play High Res. Quicktime version Music: Ode to a Butterfly by Nickel Creek Share this:Share
Read onStrikes in Guinea
Our friends the Dentlers work in Guinea, West Africa and have been writing about strikes that have been occuring over the last couple of weeks. The unions that are striking are siding with the political opposition in order to remove the president from power. The protesting in the streets have been all emcompassing in Conakry. [...]
Read onPoor Chickens
Health & Wellness week continues. Yesterday we had an opportunity to suture and give stitches. No, we didn’t practice this one on each other. For this exercise we had chicken legs with slices in them. We had to do one stitch that was for deeper muscle cuts and one for cuts just through the skin. [...]
Read onHealth & Wellness
One of the major struggles of living overseas is dealing with health factors. To help educate us about this our classes this week and part of next are devoted to ‘Health and Wellness’. Faye Brown is a nurse who worked with New Tribes for many years and now works with Friends in Action, an organization [...]
Read onFinishing off the semester
Last night was the NTMC training Christmas party! Like last year we socialized with deserts and then had a huge gift exchange. This year we had 54 people playing, four less than last year but still a lot of people for a gift exchange. Shane kept everything in order and the game went well. Last [...]
Read onTry Again, Shall We?
Last weekend Debra and I were both supposed to speak at our church in Shelburne: Deb had the ladies meeting on Saturday and I had the Sunday service the next day. I ended up speaking as scheduled but because of the nasty weather on Friday and Saturday the ladies meeting was canceled. All we had [...]
Read onChristmas Concert
Last night we had our annual Durham Christmas Concert hosted by NTMC. The auditorium was packed, probably a few hundred residents which is a lot when you look at the population of Durham. There was lots of great music and a message by John Challinor. The choir and others doing music have been practicing for [...]
Read onWeek 4 : CLA Continues
Today we are half way through week four of our CLA Practicum. Forgotten what our CLA Practicum is? No problem, click here for a description. Quickly put, it is a chance to practice the culture and language learning techniques that we learned earlier this semester. For the past three weeks we have been comprehending nouns [...]
Read onDefinitely an MK
MK: missionary kid The MK culture is one that I’ve been introduced to over the last few years. Canaan was born into it. At eight months Canaan is already being exposed to other cultures… click the picture to play Quicktime | Windows | Flash (to download right click and select save link/target as…) Share this:Share
Read onWeek Two
Yesterday saw the finish of our second week of our CLA Practicum. It has definitely been a challenge but as every day goes by we see the value of what we have been learning and it’s effectiveness when it comes to learning another language and culture. On Wednesday Lidya took us out to a couple [...]
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