Well, it has been a crazy last couple of weeks. Last week was our final few days of language classes before a much needed break. In addition to that, I went through 3 days of testing for the Zentrale Mittelstufen Prüfung (ZMP), which is the European standard language exam. It included sections of speaks, reading, writing, and listening, all of which were pretty intense. But, the good news is that I passed! This exam is the required certification that GEM has us do, which means that I'm pretty much done with the language schooling portion!
Between now and New Year's, we're working on a different phase of our transition - cultural adaptation. Our transition supervisor for GEM has us working on a whole list of observation and interaction exercises that will help us begin to understand the people we'll be ministering to. It also means too that we'll have a little bit of a break from the intensive study we've been doing for the last three months.
