LCORE

Yesterday I got to give a tour of our linguistics building (shown on the left) to a group of college students who are here visiting for a week. We call our department LCORE, which stands for Language Collaboration, Opportunities, Resources and Encouragement . . . basically it's a resource centre for all the language work going on in PNG. Lots of people work in LCORE besides our survey team: consultants, an ethnomusicologist, literacy specialists, people who specialize in finding creative ways to help people use Scripture, people who are working to get our linguistic papers published. It was fun for me to take this group of students around and hear everyone explain what they do . . . I always enjoy hearing people who love their work tell other people about it. Who knows . . . maybe someday one of those students will be working here themselves!