Saturday, January 31, 2009

I really need to learn Spanish

Learning Spanish would be very beneficial to me as there are A LOT of hispanics in Athens. Sometimes I have little run ins with them where neither one of us can really get our point across and I leave the situation thinking how much I should really learn a little. Like today... at Wal-Mart... I was waiting to print off a few pictures and was in line behind a couple hispanic men who were taking their merry little time editing their pictures before they printed them. Finally they were finished and I went to start my order. And then realized that all the stuff on the computer was still in Spanish. And so I tried to get it switched back to English but couldn't figure out which button to hit to switch it because it was all in Spanish! So I asked one of them "English?" and pointed to the machine to which he gave me a blank stare like he had no clue what I was saying. By now two of their friends had joined them so there we were, four Mexicans and a white girl standing in a circle staring at each other. In the meantime, the computer ran out of picture paper so all of our orders were backed up and we continued to stand around awkwardly staring at each other. But the nice lady in the photo center came to our rescue and put some new paper in there. So our pictures were all printed and we all went on our way and lived happily ever after.
Now I'm waiting for Sara to call me back. Kerwin is on a work team in the Dominican Republic right now and we told her we'd love to do something with the girls tonight if she wanted a little down time. So we're going to do something, I just don't know what yet.
I'm starting to develop an intense dislike towards linens. Every time someone sleeps in the church, guess whose job it is to wash all the sheets and towels after they leave? Last weekend was great, but with six guys in the church and nine girls plus me and Jena in the apartment/fellowship hall, that makes for a lot of loads of towels and sheets to wash this week. Now, generally I don't detest laundry. Not my favorite, but not the worst. But doing laundry for 17 people is a little much. Remind me when I grow up that I don't want that many kids as it produces mass loads of laundry.
I woke up with a little bit of a sore throat this morning. I hope I'm not coming down with something. And if I do, I hope it waits to hit until Monday or Tuesday so that if it's bad enough I can take off work.
Superbowl party tomorrow at Mark & Bekah's. Should be a good time. I'm providing drinks. Good thing 2-liters are cheap.
Okay now has come the time in the post where I'm starting to talk about dumb things. So I better just go. Have a great day!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Estimado Sarah,

Yo, también, pienso que sería muy agradable para usted aprender español. Querría aprenderlo, pero primero debo llegar a ser mejor con criollo. También, justo tan usted sabe, Haley estuvo en el hospital con una fiebre alta, pero pensamos que ella estará bien ahora. La esperanza segura tan. Nosotros le adoramos muy Sarah mucho más ESTIMADO Jo y esperamos verle pronto. ¡Dios le bendice! !!!

Padre y Mamá

Cuddles and kisses from the both of us :) PS - the part about Haley, she is in the hospital, but ok we think. She had a high fever - a viral thing the doctors think. We love you. God bless you. Dad and Mom

Karen and Joe said...

Hey sarah! I would love to learn spanish too, just wish it didn't take so much time and effort! haaha other wise I would totally do it too, becuase I run into spanish speaking people at my job as well. It would just come in handy! Laughed out loud about your laundry comment and kids!
Have a great day!

Anonymous said...

I love it! Your parents crack me up! Perhaps I can teach you a little Espanol, eh?

Erin said...

17 beds Ha! thats nothing try do it all the time for work teams. I have made- putting away clean 59 pairs of sheets in the past 3 weeks (not including towls and wash cloths). I LOVE that part of my job... really I do. It gives me time to hide out where nobody thinks to look for me for a good hour each day:)

Mandy said...

I'm sorry we caused so much laundry!! :( We loved visiting you! Love you!

Anonymous said...

i just want you to know that I am going to go get measured for my dress today and I'm eating 2 cinnamon rolls....sigh....maybe i'll lose weight after I get measured and then toots will have to take it in a whole bunch....that would be cool!

Anonymous said...

So I just realized that I haven't checked your blog in awhile...goodness...I really missed out! I love you!

Anonymous said...

I was always searching for a site like yours to learn spanish, you have made it possible for me thanks.

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