FUNNY THINGS WE LEARN

Well today was another good day.

Dave went on a couple of studies with Dustin and they did some male bonding while Jasa and I bonded too.

They made us a wonderful dinner of pizza type bread with stuffed tomatoes on the side, mmmmmmm very nice!

Extreme Uno came out and they were taught the madness so now we have them hooked too, awesome.

Today we learnt some very important hand gestures, yes you did read that right! Lets see if I can explain.

If a car stops to let you cross the road in NZ we would raise our hand flat palm facing out and say thanks, right, well here, you raise your hand with the palm facing you and mouth thank you. Hmmmm sounds easy right, well not when you have to suddenly apply the rule. Try it and see what I mean. The trouble is that if you do it our way with the palm out then you are being very rude and basically saying you, punk why did you do that, fool! Not a good one to muck up!

In NZ to describe the height of something ie a child generally we would hold out our hand palm down to the side of us and raise it according to the height required. Not here. If you do that you are always thought to be describing the height of an animal!! hmm yes an animal. So to describe a childs height correctly you make a fist with the palm facing up and point your index finger skyward. Then place your pointing finger fist at the required height of the child. This too feels very wrong and to be honest, kinda rude. Try it and see what I mean.

So thats todays lesson for you.

I also have to say that today the toilet smell in the air has gone and all you can smell is wonderful food aromas, much better!