Week in Review

Week in Review: Went to McDonald's-check. See picture. Actually see all three pics. It deserves it. (That's the car the couples share that they are so gracious to tote me around when they can...public transportation is great, but the car is fabulous when I can get a ride!) Got acquainted with public squatty potties-check, check. Went to dinner and a movie party with Mel and her mom. We watched Miss Congeniality 2...in Turkish last night...no subtitles. It was some quality language time. Don't you worry, I'm fully immersing myself in Turkish! Today, I had lessons with Roz and then I went and had a visit with Miss Lolita Lempicka at the DVD/perfume store. p.s. the perfume smells great. I haven't rented a movie in awhile and our friendship is still very intact. Good sign. Though our friendship did hit a language blunder that had to be clarified...
So she is really sweet and before I left she wrote me a note to tell me what a good friend I am and how she's glad she met me. I'm not showing off, this is a crucial part of this story. But in her note, she told me that I was hot. 'Sicak' (suh-jak). Literally, the words she wrote, meant you are hot, like the weather. I am certain because though my language is slow, I am beyond this point. I can discuss weather. (Now, in America, this sort of lingo, means, 'hey, I think you're pretty good lookin' and normally you don't say it to someone of your own gender...so my mind just was sort of like, what is happening here? I had to follow up and good thing I did. Apparently this means, I think you're a sincere/genuine/special friend, generally a warm person. I tried to be discreet and just say, 'I'm not understanding this sentence.' So, day by day, I'm overcoming language blunders! And, if I understand it, I'll take a compliment like that any day. I'm so glad that we're just genuine friends and that she wasn't telling me how good lookin' she thought I was! Welcome to tea time. Anything can happen!
Well, I'm multi-tasking right now...I'm drying laundry (on the balcony-see previous blog for laundry details), got to chat with my folks thanks to Skype, and I'm fixing to go over to the V's to 'talk' with Mrs. V's neighbors. I told you about them in the last blog. Today is English conversation club, tomorrow is Turkish. So today has been a full day. Really, things are going so well. The language is slow and 'zor' (HARD), but God keeps giving me patient friends to have conversation with so Praise Him! He is so faithful and His mercies are new every day in my heart in this place, and I hope that He'll open your eyes to see Him that way in your neck of the woods, too.