Tifton Meets EA!

It was such a SPECIAL time having Ross and some good ole Tiftonites here! This is a lil slideshow of our time together:

And I just love Ross's long curly hair!All the girls thought he was a stud!Ross also got to experience what we'll call "loss of short-term recall of common English phrases"...it's something that happens after speaking in simplified English for long amounts of time or after speaking in EA for a while and then changing back to English. Symptoms include forgetting common nouns & verbs, or using the wrong noun/verb...like telling everyone you're ordering chicken on-a-stick, when you're actually talking about lamb. ;)It was so great getting to hang out together, lots of good talks and tons of laughs!

Thanks SO much for helping send him this way!!!

Marvelous May

It's beautiful here...

Happy May 1st!

May 1st is kinda like Labor Day here in EA. Which means...no school! We decided to go visit some friends and climb a mountain with them since the weather is BEAUTIFUL!

But we ran into a lil bump, literally, along the way to their school.

We ended up taking a van to their school b/c on big holidays taxi's are scarce and buses are hauling 50+. But the van driver wasn't exactly sure where he was going, and after taking us to the wrong school, we found ourselves riding down a bumply lil side rode going "too fast for conditions." Now we were only going about 35mph when ran over an old broken speed bump, but we lost a pipe or something as soon as we hit it. So we found ourselves stranded on this lil alley w/ no transportation and not a clue where we were in relation to where we wanted to go. Thankfully, one of our friends who was waiting on us at the school found a van that was willing to take her off looking for us! We flagged down a lil motorcyclist who was able to tell our friend's van driver on the phone where we were, and they were able to come to the rescue! The adventures of public transportation! :)

But we finally made it to the mountain and enjoyed an awesome afternoon with friends!

The Dating Game

So I've ran into a growing trend here in some of the big cities in EA. When I was walking around a park with a friend the other day we came across hundreds of personal ads, you know the kind where you list your age, job, appearance, hobbies, etc...

and next thing I know we come across nearly 200 or so people my parents age and older holding the personal ads and sharing pictures of their son/daughter...so turns out that the parents are the ones that made the personal ad for their adult child, and are the ones looking at other personal ads and talking with other parents to find a date/mate for their son/daughter.Yeah, I'm still not sure what to think about this, but it was really interesting none the less.But I was SO excited to spend time with my old friend, Cat.