Hodge-Podge…or Potpourri, if you like that better.
As I mentioned in my previous post, we’re in Palestine. So you’d think there might be tons of exciting things to write about. And I’m sure there is. But I can’t think of any single story that is worthy of an entire post. Or at least not one that I feel like typing.
So in the spirit of Alex Trebek and Jeopardy, (He’s huge over here) I present a Hodge-Podge/Potpourri category of random stuff.
1. My deodorant is aluminum and paraben FREE!
2. A few weeks back while watching Deanna play soccer with some other ladies here in Palestine, I shouted, “I want to see blood!” Now…honestly, from my side I was joking. That being said, I can see how this sort of statement in such an environment that people live in here could be taken the wrong way. In any case, as I shouted this, one of the ladies turned when I said this and, WACK! The ball smashed into the side of her head. The kicker was a former soccer player for one of the high school teams here and the kick was extremely hard. At about that time I looked for a whole to crawl into. On the outside, I felt terrible. But on the inside I was cracking up.3. During one of the English classes that I’m teaching here, the vocabulary word “sad” was learned. I asked several students to use this word in a sentence as I did other words such as excited, relieved, tired…But as I asked this particular student when the last time she was sad was, she said in her broken English, “Yesterday, when my Grandmother died.” I believe, “oh” was my response. I mean, where do you go from there?
4. I have become particularly good at bartering. In fact, I find it quite fun.
5. El mundo está quemando. That’s the phrase that was often used in Mexico to describe the weather. I believe the same words could be used to describe the current weathering conditions here in the last three days.
6. I have read 36 of my 52 books for the year. In case I didn’t mention it at an earlier time, my New Year’s resolution is to read 52 books during this calendar year, an average of one per week. Thirty-six books puts me at September 8th, or something like that. I’m excited.
Peace. Salaam. Shalom.
As I mentioned in my previous post, we’re in Palestine. So you’d think there might be tons of exciting things to write about. And I’m sure there is. But I can’t think of any single story that is worthy of an entire post. Or at least not one that I feel like typing.
So in the spirit of Alex Trebek and Jeopardy, (He’s huge over here) I present a Hodge-Podge/Potpourri category of random stuff.
1. My deodorant is aluminum and paraben FREE!
2. A few weeks back while watching Deanna play soccer with some other ladies here in Palestine, I shouted, “I want to see blood!” Now…honestly, from my side I was joking. That being said, I can see how this sort of statement in such an environment that people live in here could be taken the wrong way. In any case, as I shouted this, one of the ladies turned when I said this and, WACK! The ball smashed into the side of her head. The kicker was a former soccer player for one of the high school teams here and the kick was extremely hard. At about that time I looked for a whole to crawl into. On the outside, I felt terrible. But on the inside I was cracking up.3. During one of the English classes that I’m teaching here, the vocabulary word “sad” was learned. I asked several students to use this word in a sentence as I did other words such as excited, relieved, tired…But as I asked this particular student when the last time she was sad was, she said in her broken English, “Yesterday, when my Grandmother died.” I believe, “oh” was my response. I mean, where do you go from there?
4. I have become particularly good at bartering. In fact, I find it quite fun.
5. El mundo está quemando. That’s the phrase that was often used in Mexico to describe the weather. I believe the same words could be used to describe the current weathering conditions here in the last three days.
6. I have read 36 of my 52 books for the year. In case I didn’t mention it at an earlier time, my New Year’s resolution is to read 52 books during this calendar year, an average of one per week. Thirty-six books puts me at September 8th, or something like that. I’m excited.
Peace. Salaam. Shalom.
posted by Mike at 7/27/2007 10:31:00 AM
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