I spent most of today editing Jonah in the Malila language. Things went very well. Almost perfect. Except for 20 words I discovered were missing out of chapter one. I looked through all my audio files. Nope. Then, I looked at the scripts we used. The words weren’t printed!!! Gggrrrrrr…. Small correction to make but [...]
On the way back from conference, we pass through a horrendous stretch of unpaved road between the Kenya border and Tanga, Tanzania. To give you a glimpse of why this is the most dreaded part of the conference travel every year, I asked Dana to video a short piece so that we may show you.
Today was probably a near-typical Sunday for us here in Mbeya, Tanzania. This is what it looked like:
8:00am – Dana got up while the guys slept in. That was nice.
9:15am – Asher and I finally got up and I sipped a cup of tea to start the morning.
9:30am – I diddle daddled on the [...]
Before we left for conference, I resolved to clean out & organize our outside storage room. I knew it would be a large task but I didn’t think it would take me almost 7 hours. I first had to empty it completely so I could sweep out the mound of dirt accumulated inside. Here’s everything [...]
One morning at breakfast, this African Pied Wagtail put his charm on…
Their songs are one of my favorite of all the birds I’ve ever heard.
Some of my recent responsibilities have been to gather profile pictures of our language cluster project team for a collaborative branch poster. Those posters are displayed at conference and each office location takes one back with them. So, I gathered all the photos I could and began sending them to our communications guy, a PC [...]
When I built the studio out behind the house, I elected to have my desk up high instead of like normal. 4 ft off the ground. That’s how high the desk is. So, of course I needed high chairs. Problem was their immobility. The suckers are way heavy and don’t slide at all on the [...]
This is a litle piece of video I shot while waiting for our turn to pass through some road construction in Iringa.
