Rather than learn another language our last semester of school (like we did with the Tanna, Vanuatu language in Summer school), we learned how to document a language. This is useful for especially endangered languages or just for getting a lot of language data that can be used by people from all disciplines. I did language documentation with Farsi and my partner Elyse and I had a lovely Iranian language helper. We went to her house one day to enjoy some Iranian food and had some very interesting food and got to meet her son and a friend. The main dish was delicious and the sides yummy. In desserts they use a lot of rosewater so I think that may be an acquired taste. Here's some pics of our tasty treats! Our langauge helper is off to Iran now for a visit but hopefully she'll keep working with Equip students in future years if we didn't scare her off too badly. :)
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