Limol #13



It's been a few days since I last wrote. I've been sick and so I haven't been running. My appetite finally came back last night so I thought I might run today but I was only able to walk and then I had to stay close to the house (and toilet). Hopefully tomorrow will be better. 

The past few days have been very productive though besides. More and more verbs keep coming in, and I started writing up a paper about the floating nasal pattern. I'm working on a few other papers too about general grammatical topics. Yesterday I had a productive conversation with a young woman who speaks an Ende language game where you replace the endings of words with the sound -sko. I hope that this may provide some evidence for stress and/or wordhood! Besides this I've gathered a number of stories and songs and have slowly been transcribing and processing them. It's very important to keep this going because I need examples of all the grammatical constructions that I claim are in the language and some are quite rare! I would love to get them all naturally of course.

On the medicine side, things have been pretty calm and I hope it stays this way. I'm becoming quite close with a family in Karama corner: old man Giniya, his wife Kagär and their daughter in law Erga. Giniya gave me an amazing crocodile tooth necklace yesterday. I've been told it's a special dancing necklace so I try to do a little dance every time I put it on.

I visited the school on Monday after giving Kauga the schoolteacher all the Ende alphabet books. He led a reading session and every kid was able to have their own book. Kauga was super grateful and I feel like this is a great place to house the books. It gives the school more resources and the children will have dedicated time set aside to read. Plus I hope the books might stay in better condition then around the village.






Guess everything is going well! Feeling pretty optimistic today. 

Kate

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  1. ElizabethNovember 28, 2017 at 3:19 PM

    That's wonderful seeing the kids with the alphabet books!

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