During worship, we got the privilege of using instruments from foreign countries. This is actually a xylophone and don't quote me, but I believe it's used somewhere in Africa. I'm sorry for the lack of photos- since we were in classes all day I didn't really get a lot of chances to take them.
Katie and I both agree on the summation of our feelings this morning- we did not want to get up. Several times, we must have at least considered going back to sleep when we finally arose at the eventful hour of 7:04 a.m.
At about 7:30, we made it to breakfast and had a delicious item sort of like a stuffing casserole.
Worship commenced at eight, which, though small, is unique in its sincerity.
After that came devotions, which was lead by Andy. He talked to us about how important it is to stay true to our religion, giving examples of two highly respected pastors and their break from Christianity.
Grammar was our next class, and we basically just went over some stuff and got optional homework.
Phonetics (or Funetics as our teacher Zoe likes to call it) came after, and we corrected our homework and learned some more sounds.
Sounds might appear dull to you, but the next course shouldn't. We had a class on translation and were given Psalm 23 in Hebrew and the fromal English translation. Beneath these translations were a set of guidelines by which we had to translate the meaning of the Psalm back into English, assuming that our language had some obstacles it doesn't really have, but cultural problems that served the purpose of illustration. It was sort of difficult, but at the same time really fun because we had to make sense of God's Word, and then make God''s Word make sense in the language!
During our time with our language helper, we learned more Korean than I could've dreamed of learning in an hour. Sometime, I hope to record it somewhere.
We had a couple come in who had been doing language surveying. I can't really tell you much else about them, but what they basically do is evaluate language similarity levels and whither or not the are ready to have a Bible in their mother tongue.
They served us a Thai dinner, and then the GET Global team (Guatemala team) went off to discuss our trip.
Well, that's it!
In Christ,
Brittany Goodrich
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