Day 8 - Soccer

[I just uploaded two videos to FB, one of some of our hiking on Day 3, one from Day 8. Check them out!]

Sometimes you can’t help having fun. You do everything you can to resist, but it’s just no use…

We had a short, DRY hike from Bencheng to Dungutung. We took two Word Lists (I did one) which were a lot of fun. Two because there were two dialects in the village. We did the Main Questionnaire with something close to 100 adults! I don’t think we’ve ever had half that before (see FB video)! They gave us a bag full of fresh peanuts, and several fresh coconuts to drink each.

Finished with work, we walked to the house we were to stay in. We washed in a clear, fast-flowing, waist-deep stream that was the perfect temperate. No goosebumps. A nap, before which I listened to music for the first time on the survey. Do you know how sublime that can be?

Then a soccer game on a nearby field, where I, to my own surprise, scored the first goal. Another wash. A feast, with greens, chicken, and other goodies. Then a lovely service under the stars, complete with lyrics on New Life put to traditional melodies. An early bedtime, a cool night. Glory.