New Look & Language Story

Laura was experimenting with new templates for the blog--not realizing that it removes any customization. So, we found a new template we liked and I put the cool flickr badge, map of our readers' locations, and links back up. It was OK. It's good to clean stuff out and restart every so often, no?

Our language learning is coming along nicely. Last night we were taking a taxi home and as usual the driver enjoyed looking at Selah and trying to get her to smile. As usual Selah obliged, and after confirming that Selah was a she, he told us that he had a daughter and a son. He went on to explain that having girls is better than having boys because they will actually help the family by cooking and cleaning. We laughed and thought that will hopefully be true for us. In this culture, it's definitely true.

Anyway, it was just really nice to be able to understand the guy and to share that moment with him. No English was spoken. Language is the key to opening the culture and the people.