This is where in about one week's time, our Cross-Cultural Communication class will be setting up our tents for a special 5-week field training experience.
In those five weeks, we will be living without many modern conveniences and spend most of our time with culture & language acquisition (CLA). Eight hours a day, we will be learning a foreign language and culture from a "culture & language helper" (CLH).
The language I will be learning is Palaka, a language spoken in the Ivory Coast by about 8,000 people. I will be learning the language from a teacher who used to live and work among this people group.
As I visited the campsite this morning before breakfast, it was hard to imagine that I would soon be living here for over a month together with all my classmates. We will have alsmost no contact with the outside world.
I hope to post some more photos and write a bit more next week once we have set up our tents and while I am still able to access the internet.
