August 27, 2006

our first week here

[E] Adjusting to life here has been kind of stressful. My language skills are so minimal that if I had to order food for Lilly and myself, we'd have to eat the same thing. Thankfully, that hasn't happened yet since we've been doing things mostly together with other people who know the language. We've also had so much activity in trying to settle to our new place.

[L] It's really funny how there is a paradigm shift among us and our friends. Some of our friends here are caucasion, so whenever we are out, sometimes people will point them out and yell out, "foreigners!" But with us, people just speak directly to us and assume we know the language because we are Asians. Then, it becomes REALLY confusing to them, because our "foreigner" friends would have to step in to "translate" for us because we don't know what the natives are saying! hahaha.