Nora at MTI

While Luis and I were in cross-cultural training and language aquisition classes at MTI in Colorado, Nora was in the nursery. She did amazingly well being cared by strangers, as this was her first time ever being in a nursery/day care setting. Over the month the strangers became friends and familiar faces and she loved being with them. The kids program made tie-dye shirts to represent being a Third Culture Kid (TCK). The three colors represent their parent’s culture, the new culture they will be raised in, and their own culture which will be an amalgamation of them both. Here is Nora with her sweet nursery teacher Mella Dee.

Three things

Three takeaways that we learned at MTI

1) Learned to see different cultures from a different lens. We learned to not think what other cultures do is weird, but it’s simply just different.

2) Learned our conflict styles. Not only was this super informative in regard to future ministry relationships, but also helpful in our marriage.

3) Learned the importance of good good-byes to help us with our transistion from our passport country into our host country.