More from October 2008

Ben finished that last post up for me (thanks, sweetheart!). Here are some more pictures we wanted to share from this month.

Translation Area of the Conference Center


This is the outside of our booth. One or two people sit there and prepare for their talks while two people sit inside and interpret. The headsets there are so we can listen to what the interpreters in our booth are saying.

Here's the inside of our booth. There's room for two people to sit with their headsets. You can't see them in this picture, but they're hanging on the wall on either side of the chairs. The monitor is the same feed you see when you watch Conference. We watch the speaker and listen to what he/she is saying in one ear, and then we hear ourselves in the other ear. It's important to see the speakers so we can keep up with them, pause when they make a joke, use the right inflection if they're getting emotional, and stuff like that.

Here's a better shot of the inside of the booth.


This is the other side of our booth, where another language is set up. I think the Serbian team is set up here. I took this so you can see how many booths there are. This isn't all of them in the translation area. I think there are about 60 all together. Not all the interpreting is done in this area of the Conference Center, or even in the Conference Center. American Sign Language is in a different part of the building that has screens and cameras, and some languages do their interpreting in their home countries. I think they told us Saturday morning's session was being interpreted into 85 languages. The Conference Center has a server that can handle 100 languages simultaneously, which is more than they do at the United Nations.

Zucchini Time!

Before the freak snowstorm we got this month, Ben went to out to our garden to gather anything left before it froze. He found a lot of volunteer tomatoes (volunteer because we didn't plant any) and this huge zucchini. He peeled it up, grated it, and made lots of delicious zucchini bread, all of which we ate immediately. Thanks, honey! It was delicious! That same weekend he also dug up the rest our potatoes. It took some doing since the weeds got pretty tall, but they're worth it. They are sure good eating.

Invasion of the Pregnant Ladies

Our dear friends the Baldwin's came over for Family Home Evening one Monday this month. Julie is due to deliver any minute now. We're so excited for you and can't wait to meet Anna!