I am sitting in the last ten minutes of my last class at GIAL for now.  Based on some conversations I will be having a little bit later today I have somewhere between 1-4 courses left to finish a MA in Applied Linguistics  here.  If it is a lower number, there is a chance we will wrap that up next spring before heading to the field.  More conversations to be had with the office at LBT to decide that as well. 

In the meantime we have three weeks to pack up and reset our furnished house back to the way it was when we got here.  Maya will be taking a Primary Health Care class the last two weeks of those three.  I will be spending time writing sermons and contacting pastors too.  Additionally we have VBS at our church in a couple of weeks.  So, we're staying busy, certainly not on vacation by any means.

But it does feel good to be done with coursework for now.  A year ago I had barely heard of the International Phonetic Alphabet, had never heard of phonology or semantics and now I can talk just like the rest of the linguists.  More importantly, we are both much better equipped for the task of Bible translation to which the Lord is calling us.

Praise the Lord for all He has done.