Today, Anya was off to school. Her art teacher appreciate’s Anya ability to sew! It almost feels that Anya has become one of the teacher’s pets. However, she still misses Miss Colleen from Tillicum Middle School–a great art teacher!
I worked on Hebrew in the morning, as the Maasai group is an Old Testament group, and Knut wants to make sure we’re all keeping in the Hebrew text. He realizes that the Africans will go back and be OT teachers at a seminary with their PhD or postdoc, and thus, they will be expected to teach Hebrew. So, Knut wants to help prepare them. How wise!
I hope I prepared enough verses. The Old Testament vocabulary is so large and there are many words that are only used a few times, so they are not in my standard (read limited) vocabulary–like razor. We also read aloud, so I want to keep honing my reading skills. There are so many little marks (pointing) and some marks look identical but have different sounds or some are vocalized while in some situations they are silent! Hebrew keeps me humble!
I am reading a 1979 doctoral dissertation written by a Dutch Catholic priest who worked about 14 years with the Maasai. I scanned most of his dissertation from the archives page by page in 2012 at Makumira Seminary in Tanzania. Now, I’m putting them together in a document per chapter, but if you’ve ever worked with OCR scanning, it isn’t very accurate. I can make it work for my purposes, but it is cumbersome. Then, I have to glean a little from a lot of stuff. His dissertation is sometimes ethnography and sometimes a collection of songs/prayers/blessings, and sometimes like a travel journal. He does add some insights (a bit too much detail on the male circumcision ceremony) and corroborates my Maasai informants and other anthropologist sources–with just a couple things that I wish were not divergent.
Anya and I took a break with the Project Runway All Stars finale. A good distraction and something fun to talk about. Afterwards, I asked her which of the final 3 designers she would want to design a collection for her. She wanted the 2nd place designer, Sonjia. She would be easy to work with too!
Hey folks, anyone interested in trying out recipes online that are purported to taste like a Chipotle chicken burrito? If you find something, please let me know! I like their medium salsa. Any “tastes like” recipes around?