Friday, July 15, 2011

Lost in the translation!!


Annie said, "Come early.  I show you through  house."   I thought.

I was ready early, thank goodness and just playing around on the computer, when she unexpectedly arrived here at the van. 
Her conversation with me should have been..... I come early.  I show you to house.  There's a world of difference between through and to.
Her kind idea had been to come here, pick me up, take me to her house for a massage, then bring me back home, so that I would know where to go in future.   
She honoured me!!!    Turn me around once and I'm lost.
I went with Annie, with Steve loudly repeating, "I will come to Annie's and Tom's house to get you at 4pm" as I was getting in the car.  
An hour and one welcome massage later, I walked out the back of their house and had Annie greet me at the front, "I take you back to caravan."

I sat on their patio and waited for Steve, thinking that it wouldn't hurt me to learn to speak a bit of basic Chinese.

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