New friends.

A few nights ago we had about 20 people stop by for a little while. Some of our neighbors that we met had a bunch of family come into town for a few days and they all came up to meet us. It was so much fun! They all came inside and we hung out in the living room for about 30 minutes just laughing and talking (or at least trying to talk…lack of language makes it a little hard :)) Dave got his guitar out and played a little bit. They told us that one of the guys in the group has a really good voice and loves to sing, so Dave promised to sing if he did. They loved it!

We did have a funny thing happen though…funny I guess depending on how you look at it :) When we first invited them in Mel offered to make tea, since that’s just culturally what you would do. They wouldn’t let us make tea, but eventually they at least let us get them some cold water. Mel and I quickly tried to find enough cups. She brought them out on a tray and asked me to follow behind her with water. Well, we have a water purifier but it’s not cold when it first comes out, so we fill up a pitcher from it and keep it in the fridge. The pitcher wasn’t all the way full, so I grabbed a couple of cold water bottles from the fridge as well, and poured them into the pitcher. After I had filled everyone’s cups and about 5 minutes had gone by, our guests all started laughing pretty hard and were talking to each other. Mel and I were standing in the kitchen and had a conversation that went like this:
Mel looked at something on the counter and said-"I sure hope my medicine didn’t get poured into that pitcher, that would be bad." Me-"umm, what medicine?" Mel-"My dehydration meds were mixed with some water and in the fridge. It tastes so gross, so I just never really drank it. It was in a water bottle." Me-"that water bottle that’s next to the pitcher??" Mel-"Yep. THAT water bottle." Me-"Yeahhh. oops. I had no idea that was medicine. It’s now in everyone’s cups and they’re drinking it."
Needless to say, we had a pretty good laugh over it.

Thankfully it wasn’t bad for them or anything, and really now they are just extra hydrated :) Although, I’m sure on their way back down the hill they had quite the conversation about those Americans and their nasty water. Oops.
We had a great time with them though, and it was so good to meet some more friends. It’s little things like this that just do your heart some good. It was also a great reminder that even though we don’t speak the same language yet, people are people and you can still laugh and make friends. A smile is a smile and a hug is a hug. Sometimes words aren’t really even needed.



Love it.

So fun!

A couple of our neighbors. These girls are so sweet and always smiling.
Not the worlds greatest picture of me, but aren't they beautiful?

Some of the ladies. They were pretty excited to get their picture taken.

A few of the guys. They might have been even more excited...