Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Acculturation Moments--Celebrating Small Victories

On our way to do some shopping, a Kiwi teenage girl and I were talking in the car.  Our conversation somehow drifted to someone going to Dunedin, NZ.  I then made a comment about the South Island, and the girl looked at me and asked, "Wait, is Dunedin in the South Island?"

"Yes, it is!"  I exclaimed.  "Mark it on the calendar, for once, I knew where something was in New Zealand when a Kiwi didn't!"  (It was May 2nd, in case you were wondering.)

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I was sitting in a good friend's lounge, hanging out with a few people, when one of them looked at me and said, "You're losing your accent." Huge, internal YES! :)

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I couldn't believe it as I looked over the two and a half pages full of notes in my journal.   I had just sat through an entire sermon in a language I do not know, and somehow I had taken over two pages of notes!  Between body language, expression, looking at the Scriptures in English, and glancing at the notes a young lady was taking next to me in English, not to mention the incredible power of the Holy Spirit, I had absorbed a great sermon!



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