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March 2009 Translation Workshop

A couple of the team's laptops needed new keyboards. Our long term goal is to help the translators become less and less dependent on me, so I taught the translators how to change a laptop keyboard.

Emil Ninkure (above) and Jack Boipe (below) both gave it a try.

I often attend the Brethren church that is only 200 yards from our house in Arop. They put up this new building last year.

Their interim pastor is Augistine Tonini, one of the translators from the Pou language. He preaches in Pidgin, but made a point of mentioning that Pou speakers and Arop speakers will be better served when they can hold their services in their own languages, but they need the Bible in their languages to do that. So they prayed for the translators and the translation project every time I visited.

Before this workshop, each language had two translators and one computer. The result was we had many times where one translator waited around to use the computer. Now Augustine (lower right) now has his own computer to use. What were they doing when I took this photo? Going right to left: Augustine was working on refining Acts chapter 6, while his partner Clement (shirtless) is doing his first draft of chapter 7 and comparing it to Jack's first draft of the same chapter. Jack is from Barupu, which is very closely related to Clement and Augustine's Pou language. Next to Jack is Joe Aputa (not to be confused with the late Joe Anaput). He's new, so he's learning the translation process by using his computer to watch what Jack is doing on Jack's computer.

During every translation workshop, the translators choose one Sunday to have a worship service together. Otherwise they attend various churches in Arop and surrounding villages. At this workshop, Kenny Aiprum from the Sissano language gave the sermon.

Arop boys are like boys all over. These boys practiced their bow and arrow skills behind our house.

Of course, once they spotted the camera, it was time to pose.

For more of the rest of the story, see Leaving Arop.