Training of the participants who will play key roles in the
Gwama workshop these next two weeks continued today. Nine of the ten
individuals who were invited to take part this week have now arrived.
I allowed Anne-Christie, the Coordinator for this workshop, to choose which portions of the
instruction she wanted to be responsible for, and I took the others. She
elected to let me open the morning with the first practice exercise, and then
she took the baton and ran with it the rest of the day. Since she is able to
teach in Amharic, she did not need a translator, so we moved through the lesson
plans at a pretty good pace, and by the end of the day, all that remained to be
done during this training phase was a few practice exercises. It looks like we
will either finish early tomorrow or we’ll need to add more exercises to fill
the time.
In the evening, I went with the Neudorfs—the German couple
in whose house I am staying in Asosa—to visit the village where they lived and
studied the Bertha language in the past. We visited the man who “adopted” them
as his children, looking out for their well-being while they lived near his
compound. The Neudorfs will be traveling back to Addis Ababa on Saturday
morning and David, the young man with whom I stay in Addis when I first arrived
will be flying in on Sunday afternoon. The two of us will be doing our best to
fend for ourselves in a city that I am only barely familiar with and which
David has never been to before.
Kevin Warfel
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