Trucks go, "BEEP, BEEP"

Miriam's little friend Simeon was over the other day. We have a few token trucks and matchbox cars amidst the sea of pink ribbons and doll clothes, and Simeon immediately gravitated toward those.

I think when I was growing up, when I was playing with trucks, they would say things like, "Brrroom, brrrooom," and "Vrrooom", and make gear changing sounds and such like.

Simeon immedately began to say, "BEEEP BEEEP" and "HOOONK, HOOONK".

I guess it is what you hear.

Haven't checked in for awhile. We are doing well. My parents are coming to visit, what a hoot. They will be here in two weeks, and stay for two weeks. There will be much weeping and wailing when it is time for them to leave.

Busy week in clinic. Whole bunch of Spanish students in this week, and the Swedes arrive next week.

Back in VNS and Clarification

Well, we are safely back in our fair city, and busy as usual.

Have several guests coming next month, so will be quite busy next month. My folks are coming. Hope they do well on the plane trip. It is a long time to sit still.

Clarification!: The Archies mentioned in the previous post is a chain of shops (similar to Hallmark in the US) that sells greeting cards and trinkets. The one close to us with the odd name is just that: an oddly named shop. Indian English often does things with the English language that mean totally different things in other places where English is spoken. This is one such example.

I guess I am a little late in posting this

...but it was sort of fun, so why not?
When I took the girls Christmas shopping, so they could buy a gift for their Mom, we went to ARCHIES (this post has been edited for clarity on 20 January 2007), a trinket and card shop down the street from us.
The girls picked out some candles and a vase for Mom, and the cashier gave them the two santa hats for free.
They got a charge out of them.

Good News

Nora Grace and Sam each got their six month visas today at the Indian Embassy in Bangkok!!! Hooray!!! So we can go back to our fair city.

And we got our computer fixed, so double blessings!!

What a deal. Thanks be to God.

Girlfriends

Here is Nora Grace with a couple of girlfriends. Nev, in the middle, is from South Africa and is almost a twin to Nora Grace. Amy, on the left, is from England.

That makes sense, right?

Sheep in a Trolley

The Festival of the Sacrifice has just fineshed up in our fair city, for the Muslims. So the streets were were full of sheep, goats, and water buffalo being taken to be slaughtered.

We got over ten pounds of meat on that day, as it is tradition to give some away to poor people and friends (we would qualify as "friends").

Commentary on the Methods of Discipline Used by the Little Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe

Some of you may be familiar with the nursery rhyme, regarding the Old Lady who lived in a Shoe. To writ:

"There was an old lady who lived in a shoe
Who had so many children she didn't know what to do,
So she gave them some broth and she gave them some bread,
And spanked them all soundly and sent them to bed. "

Granted, we do not have "so many children" that we "don't know what to do."

And granted, the rhyme shows a noticable lack of justice, in punishing all children equally, regardless of the severity of the offense, and even regardless of the fact that some of them may not have commited punishable offenses.

Nevertheless, there are some days when that makes perfect sense.

A Few Mennonite Jokes

OK, OK, I am not into forwording jokes around the internet too much, but if the Conservative Mennonite Conference's very own Brotherhood Beacon can publish these, goodness, they must be all right...

1. Q: Why don't Mennonite women wear sleaveless dresses?
A: These refuse to bear arms.

2. Q: How was copper wire invented?
A: Two Mennonites found a penny.

3. Q: What is a significant Mennonite dilemma?
A: Free Beer.

4. Q: What do you get when you cross a Mennonite and a Japanese car?
A: A Toyoder.

5. Q: What did three GC Mennonites who were ice fishing say?
A: Wiebe Friesen Fast.

6. Q: Why are Mennonite guys afraid of meeting their dates' father?
A: They might play the Mennonite game and win.

7. Q: What goes clip clop, clip clop, bang bang, clip clop?
A: An Amish drive-by shooting.

8. One day a van of Mennonites was driving up the highway and they saw a sign that said, "Maximum 50". So they stopped and let off seven people.