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I am in Green Bay preparing to leave for Durgapur at the end of Sept. 2011.
I do believe there is order amidst the chaos of packing, visa, packing, vaccinations, planning and packing!
It is clear to me that in order to answer this Call to Durgapur, I must surrender many things which have been dear to me, including my cat Jennifer. She is going to a loving new home, but I will miss her nonetheless. I don't think I have ever trusted God's love as much as I do these days, because I am traveling to a world which is totally unknown to me. Talk about the 'worm-hole! Talk about a leap of faith!
Studying Bengali with a tutor is exciting, tiring and one of the best uses I have made of my time. Bengali is a soft, beautiful language, and has characteristics of German, French and Italian. For instance, the verbs are at the end of the sentence, like German. There are nasalized vowels like French, and pronounced double consonants as in Italian. For those of you singers out there, I was thrilled to discover that the language text I was using (written in 1958!) used the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to teach you how to pronounce the words. Who knew? Now I know why I studied all those languages!
I am in Green Bay preparing to leave for Durgapur at the end of Sept. 2011.
I do believe there is order amidst the chaos of packing, visa, packing, vaccinations, planning and packing!
It is clear to me that in order to answer this Call to Durgapur, I must surrender many things which have been dear to me, including my cat Jennifer. She is going to a loving new home, but I will miss her nonetheless. I don't think I have ever trusted God's love as much as I do these days, because I am traveling to a world which is totally unknown to me. Talk about the 'worm-hole! Talk about a leap of faith!
Studying Bengali with a tutor is exciting, tiring and one of the best uses I have made of my time. Bengali is a soft, beautiful language, and has characteristics of German, French and Italian. For instance, the verbs are at the end of the sentence, like German. There are nasalized vowels like French, and pronounced double consonants as in Italian. For those of you singers out there, I was thrilled to discover that the language text I was using (written in 1958!) used the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to teach you how to pronounce the words. Who knew? Now I know why I studied all those languages!
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