WOW! Things are going by quickly. A week just zooms by! I was talking the other day to some friends of mine about how when we first got here a day was so slow, and now it's like a week goes by and I don't even notice...
Anywho... this last week was on the topic of relationships. They were both from Hawaii and it was interesting to here their take on relationships, and "culture sensitivity". Relationship is one thing I have neglected in my past, but as time goes on I realize that in any situation, or field of work, the first thing you should do is develop a relationship with the people around you. It is crucial! The main focus however was making our relationship with God right, and continuing to let down walls you've put up which limit God's transformational power.
About 4 weeks ago I joined the "Choir of the Nations". This weekend we gave two performances: one to the Kona base, and the other in a local market. It was a really good experience to work with people who had limited musical backgrounds yet were so passionate for Jesus and for glorifying Him. Despite some technical difficulties here and there, everything came together in a surprisingly solid way! By the way- our choir dressed in Hawaiin shirts and khaki's for the performance.
I've been experimenting a lot with language and how we communicate as I've been here. One of the first things you notice on the Kona base is how diverse language is here. So on top of my Japanese studies I have also been messing with constructed scripts (creating an alphabet for any language). I have also just checked out this book from the library called loglan.
To summarize, Loglan is a language designed to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf) that the natural languages limit human thought. It does so by pushing those limits outward in predictable directions, principally by:
-forcing the fewest possible assumptions about "reality" on speakers
-incorporates the notational elegance of symbolic logic
-removing all structural sources of amiguity
-generalizing all semantic operations (what can be done to one word, can be done to all)
-derives its word-stock from eight natural languages (culturally neutral - [or at least culturally diverse])
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