The end of this blog...

As you may have noticed, activity on this blog has really trailed off. That is because I have been focusing on my website www.davewicks.com, newsletters (if you have not been getting the newsletters most of them are on the website and I will be working at getting all of them up there at some point) and the video blog. I will just leave this blog up here, but I probably won't make any additions for awhile.

I hope you have enjoyed it. If you want to get on my mailing list email me at dawicks@gmail.com.




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Language School

I never really learned another lanuage before. We learned french in high school, but that was only ever enough to pass the exams. We never ever practiced it outside of the classroom.

This is week three of language school for me and Liz and it is definitely harder and more tiring than I thought it would be. Forcing your brain to try to communicate in another language is hard to do when you are so used to english. You have to constantly force yourself to listen otherwise you just switch off and wait for the other person to throw in some english words so you can keep up.

I was never good in grammar even in english... so trying to learn grammar in another language can be frustrating. I am finding that the best way to learn it is to stop trying to find english equivalents... they just don't exist in Cebuano. For example, there are a lot of particles in Cebuano that they say have no meaning, but that take on meaning depending on their location in the sentance and what they are combined with. It just doesn't make sense to try and find english equivalents.

However, through learning the language Liz and I hope that we will be better equiped to relate and to serve the people of Agdao. Our love goes out to all our friends and family. Please pray for us for continued wisdom and strength.

Dave



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Newsletters... again.

Here is a better place to find all my newsletters, it should be a much simpler download.

http://www.davewicks.com/newsletters.htm



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Long, long time... no post.

I am sorry I have not made a post in a long time. Just been busy and distracted... but I do need to post here more and I will make an effort to do so. I have also recently started a video blog you can find here.

Also, to catch everyone up and to make up for my long absence from posting, I am going to be making available to you all of newsletters in pdf format. Here they are. I am using a free file hosting service called A-drive for now. I hope that it works well and does not have any questionable ads. Let me know if you have any problem with it.

o May 5, 2007
o Jun 1, 2007
o Jul 3, 2007
o Aug 1, 2007
o Sep 4, 2007
o Nov 7, 2007
o Dec 12, 2007
o Jan 10, 2008
o Feb 26, 2008
o May 14, 2008
o Jun 17, 2008
o Jul 15, 2008



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