Saturday, June 21, 2008

We have a cellphone

Today we bought a cellphone. It is free for us to receive calls and texts. Our number is 011-226-76810990. The first three numbers are to get out of the US and the second three are the country code for Burkina. We look forward to hearing from you.

Another quick story:
We brought pictures from home to share with our host family and they included a picture of a cactus from Arizona. When we were explaining what a cactus was the three teenage girls in our house were giggling but we did not think much of it. Today we learned that the word for "thorn" in French is "epine" and not "pin" as we had thought. "Pin" is actually the word for a male body part. So we described a cactus as a tree with a lot of reproductive organs.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love that story!! Foreign languages and reproductive organ mishaps are the greatest, and it always seems to happen with the best audiences-elders or kids!!
cant wait to see pictures!! love you guys!!

Unknown said...

awww, we got a new email, just for you. now we too can join in the fun of commenting on your blog...

speaking of which, you shoulda told us you had one, had to hear it from mom.

glad you have a phone. looks like we might be able to call you in the mornings. maybe we will. you'll just have to waite and see.

love you both.

Unknown said...

by the way, according to the accuweather.com thing you have on your page- its been hotter here than it has there. we dont have ac either. since i'm not working i'm just at home packing our stuff. paul called the other day and i was really grumpy. he asked what was wrong and i said, "its hot in here and i just need to get some ice cream when you get home." seriously. i sweat when i'm sitting around reading in here these days. its hot.

Unknown said...

Hi guys! I'm so bad at getting back to people now a days! I got your email but work has been nuts. How is everything going there? I got the wedding pictures you sent- they're great. Did you end up coming to Maine before you left? If you did I guess I totally missed it, can't wait to have you back in the states, preferably Maine!