Nard!

This is what our schedule looks like for the week. 

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
8:30-9:00	Devotions	Devotions	Devotions	Devotions	Devotions
9:00-9:50	Vision 2025	Phonetics	Phonetics	Phonology	Translation & Sem.
9:50-10:00	MORNING SNACK BREAKS EACH DAY
10:00-10:50	Phonetics	Grammar	Grammar	Gram. Test	Phonology Test
11:00-11:50	Grammar	Phonetics	Phonology	Trans. & Sem.	Trans. & Sem.
11:50-1:00	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
1:00-1:50	Phonetics	Lang. Learn.	Lang. Learn.	Lang. Learn.	Debrief & Conclusion
2:00-2:50	Lang. Learn.	Phonology	Trans. & Sem.	Trans. & Sem.
2:50-3:00	AFTERNOON SNACK BREAKS EACH DAY
3:00-3:50	Trans. & Sem.	Field Reports	Grammar	Field Reports
4:00-4:50	Anthropology	Translation	Anthropology	Translation
6:00-7:00	ETHNIC DINNER	ETH. DINNER	ETH. DINNER	ETH. DINNER
7:00-8:00	SPEAKER	SPEAKER	SPEAKER	SPEAKER
8:00-9:30	HANG OUT TIME & HELP WITH HOMEWORK, IF NEEDED

It's something like that.  There's actually some different types of classes about technology now, and we also got a guided tour of the whole JAARS center.  We got to see the air strip and watch planes take off! 
The first night we heard a story from a man named Nard from the Philippines.  He had become a Christian by reading part of the Bible in his own language.  Well, the translator who was there working in Nard's village had not yet finished the whole new testament, but Nard decided to go to the U.S. to be trained to become a Wycliffe pilot.  Right when he became an official pilot, the New Testament was translated and ready to be given out to his tribe.  Nard got to be the one who flew the New Testaments into his tribe!  Very neat story!  Oh, one other thing...when Nard first began to speak, he said (with a thick accent), "You all are the reason I now have to wear clothes and shoes."   ha!

 He also says his favorite foods are bilingual goat and bilingual chicken, which is dog and cat!  Let's hear it for another "ha"!