D is for Dallas

D is for Dallas.

In August of 1995, Lori and I packed up all of our wedding gifts, a few pieces of furniture and headed to Dallas.  Actually it was to Denton, just north of Dallas, but close enough.  We lived there for four years and made plenty of friends and enjoyed ourselves in our "before kids" stage of life.

Now, we look forward to heading from Lynchburg to Dallas again, but with three kids in tow.  This time it's only temporary.  We are going to Dallas to study at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics in preparation for our assignment in Cameroon.

 
At GIAL, we will both be studying anthropology and some basic linguistics.  Chris will also have a host of world arts courses to complete.  We will be leaving for Dallas a couple of days after Christmas and remain there until mid-December 2012.  Our home there will be on the campus of the International Linguistics Center, the home-base for SIL International, one of Wycliffe's partner organizations.

The kids are looking forward to the change of scenery, mostly because they don't know much better.  Noah is particularly excited to be "repatriated" to Texas, the state of his birth (never mind the fact that he was born 500 miles from Dallas).  He doesn't remember Texas at all, but he stirs with pride at the thought of returning.