This week I learned that the RWC workshop that was tentatively planned for the Lotud language in Sabah, Malaysia is definitely "on". This was exciting news for me because for the past number of months, it was on again, off again.

My supervisor, Verna Stutzman, had no experience with these workshops, so she decided to go and observe this one.  She lives near Dallas, TX and I live near Charlotte, NC, so we are on separate flights to Los Angeles, but we're booked on the same flights from there to Kota Kinabalu. (For those of you who know our family's history, that's as much of a mouthful as Ouagadougou!) We leave our homes on Sunday morning, September 15 and - if all goes as is printed on paper (since I did print out my itinerary) - we'll arrive in Malaysia Tuesday morning, September 17.

I will be functioning as the consultant for the workshop, teaching Lotud people how the Rapid Word Collection method works and training one of them in particular to be able to lead more of these workshops in the future - without me being present! We expect to do 3 days of training, 5 days of word collection, and then 3 days of cleanup, before Verna and I leave on September 30th to come back to the U.S. This will be Verna's first experience with a RWC workshop, so she will be observing, learning, - and filming! We would like to put together a demo video, showing live footage of how a RWC workshop is done. We plan to upload the video to the RapidWords.net website so that inquirers can get a better idea what it's all about.