I shared in the service. I spoke on God's heart for the nations and how he loves each culture and language uniquely and that it was God's grace at the tower of Babel to give each culture their own language. I told the Ket that God wanted to love them as Ket not as Australians, Evenki, Finns or Russians. It seems that people appreciated what I had to say. Later on we watched the Transformations video about the Inuit people in Arctic Canada. Everyone really enjoyed it and took a lot of hope from it.
River side with Yura the night before.
After the marathon 8 hour church service I just wanted to get away from people. I went for a walk, but there was company none the less.
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Thank you again for such great rare photographs and detailed commentary on your time in such a remote place. It's a great amateur anthropological document - and I don't mean that in a patronising way, but just that you probably don't consider yourself and anthropologist and yet here you are doing "field work" and gaining so much experience. From what I've gleaned about anthropolgy, it's a fascinating field and raises lots of questions about the nature of observation, interaction, and translation in intercultural encounters. Maybe when you are back in Australia and have access to libraries you might explore some of this...or touch on some of these issues in your training at Kangaroo Ground?
Anyway, thanks again for sharing your experiences, it's fascinating reading.
That last photo in this post is simply a great photo in its own right; you should enter it in a contest. (I know that's not the point of your visit or the post, I'm just saying...)
Thanks Dad. You can look through all my photos if you want and tell what is good and what is not.
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