Weddings, Concerts etc.

Kristy, Melissa, and I at Jenn's wedding
Jenn and Mark Allen

It is crazy and a bit scary to think that I have only two months left in my spring semester. These past couple months have been mainly filled with work at the bank and studying phonology, morphology, and typology - what I call the ologies. They are just fancy names for studying sounds of languages, meaning in languages, and different types of languages. However, I find that in the academic world nobody wants to use easily understandable titles, and so, if there is no fancy namefor something, they make one up:). Despite this pretentious labeling, I really do love studying linguistics. At the moment I am doing my best to study Hindi for my typology seminar, and believe me, it is a lot more complicated than I first thought. Anyway, I realize that not everybody is as enthralled with languages as I am so I will move on to other things... The highlights of these past couple months have been salsa dancing, a Jars of Clay concert, and watching my friend Jenn get married (and attempting to throw a semi-scandalous bachelorette party for her). Spring is in the air here in Missoula and I can hardly contain my excitment for the lilacs; oh how I have missed them. I am also in the process of figuring out my two adventures for this summer (around my work schedule of course). I am planning on joining my college and career group - which is really only 'career' people - on a trip to Guinea. I wasn't planning on going because I just got back from a year in Africa, but not-surprisingly, they talked me into it once they said that they needed a French translater... That and the fact that they are traveling by way of Morocco solidified the deal. Due to the recent political issues in Guinea our trip is not completely set in stone, but I am praying that we will be able to go and serve the people there. My other adventure is my return to Guadalajara, Mexico to visit some friends. I also get to watch some students of mine graduate, and I am really looking forward to that. The funny thing about my two trips is that they will be back to back. I will return from Guinea and then the next day fly out for Guadalajara. I suppose that this way I will lose less time at work and be able to pay for these trips:) More updates to come as details are finalized...
Some of my Missoula friends at Jars of Clay

Jamie and I at the "M" overlooking Missoula