We have reached a huge milestone in our life and work here in Medan. On Friday, March 20th Kali and I went to our last Bahasa Indonesia Class. When we arrived in Medan in May of 2019 we hit the ground running. In less than a week we had our first lesson scheduled and we have been working hard since then. We did take about six weeks off for the birth of Caroline and there were some major public holidays mixed in like Idul Fitri and Christmas, but we have finally made it! What a ride. It feels like just yesterday we started and at the same time like this has taken an excruciatingly long time. We are so thankful for everyone’s prayers and support through this process we were blessed and comforted to know that we were not alone.
There is definitely more to learn. Kali and I will see how the natural learning of the language comes along and then make adjustments as necessary moving forward. Right now though our life is going to change… again. Thankfully we don’t have to move, but the structure of our day is going to completely change. We had been dedicating six hours a day to language learning. Now that classes are completed it will certainly be less, even though we know that we still have to keep up with it.
We like much of the rest of the world are doing our best to self isolate ourselves against COVID-19. So our days wont look ‘normal’ for some time. For the time being, Kali will be dedicating much of the newly available time to homeschooling Laurel and Eleanor. I will be dedicating a lot of attention to working on the Indonesian Hymnal.
