Limol #21

I've missed writing the past few days because it's been a bit crazy and exciting around here. I did go on a run yesterday but it was a rough one. I had stayed up all night thinking about verbs and grammar and when I woke up all I wanted to do was not think about anything for a while. Yesterday, Tonny and I input the 500th verb into the verb database and the 4000th word into the dictionary. The 500th verb was suwe tïngg which means 'to urinate on something', Tonny offered this one because he knows I like verbs that end in -ngg. When I put a verb into the database, I have to ask, how do I say "I verb one thing, I verb two things, We verb three things, today and yesterday" for each verb. So I got to ask Tonny how to say "Yesterday, we three peed on three trees each." He must know I'm crazy. The 4000th word in the dictionary was also a verb. That morning we knocked a ripe papaya out of the tree near our house for lunch. Tonny told me that the papaya we picked has its mälläng pän 'nose decorated', which refers to how the bottom tip of the papaya goes yellow first and it creeps up the fruit over the green until the papaya is ripe to eat.

Last night we had a bit of a scare. A young boy came down with malaria and was seizing and going delirious from the fever. We quickly learned that it was malaria and luckily had the right medicine to give him. 

I'm falling asleep, hardly slept last night. 

Kate