Language Evaluation

Thanks for your encouragement and prayers.  Sally and I had our 'mock' exam for language and communication on Friday.  It went very well!  We Praise God!

As we expected there were those moments of 'head scratching' but then the light went on and we were able to communicate.  Each of us had a time with the head of the language school and our language coordinator.  We shared our history (where we were born, family, work history, relationship with Jesus Christ, some Scriptures, and what we hope to do in Kigoma) then they had time to ask some questions.  Also had a one page written quiz covering some grammar as well as translating.

Don't know if you ever made tin-can/string communication devices when you were a kid (like the screen bean pic)?  After careful planning and construction, the real test came when you stretched out the string, and invariably you would say "can you hear me?"  Am thankful that we were able to hear each other, and communicate.

We still have a long way to go.  This is one of those language plateaus.  The danger is resting on the plateau, instead of pushing harder.  By God's grace, we'll do just that, one day at a time.  

Think our next evaluation will likely be mid June before we head to Kigoma.  OK, back to language learning…

Daily by His grace.