• Riding out to the village

    Riding out to the village

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    Riding out to the village

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  • Thank You for Thinking of Us

    Thank You for Thinking of Us

    1 minute

    At a recent New Testament dedication, community leaders presented our organization with the traditional hat you see pictured above. We gratefully received the quaint token of thanks and smiled at its peculiar appearance: dried mud construction interwoven with thin string, studded with two horns and a clump of hair, and conveniently equipped with a black chin […]

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  • beignetariat

    beignetariat

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    Beignet (“donut”) + cafetariat (“cafeteria”) = beignetariat (“donuteria”)

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  • An Arm and a Leg

    An Arm and a Leg

    3 minutes

    Several weeks ago while playing volleyball (bump, set, spike) with colleagues and translators-in-training, I stubbed my toe on a rock poking up out of the sand. The resulting scrape opened up a small “bleed” as Poppy calls them. After everyone had finished basking in the glory of the tremendous spike I just threw down (that […]

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