NED
Ned can do everything better than I can…and it really ticks me off. I thought learning a language together would be fun, and it has been. But I like to be the one who gets it right away. Not so. He can sit down with the book for an hour and then walk away using all the verbs he just read, and remember the irregular forms as well. My only saving grace it that I am more willing to approach a stranger/storekeeper and try it out, but I usually have to ask Ned how to say it first…
The Poor Guy… I am the one who has spotted Baboons (while riding through the bush in the bed of a truck, sitting on 20 bags of rice with 19 other men), and the one who was able to see the Colobos Monkey in the jungle. Ned is the one who had food poisoning from his first local dish, had bed bugs attack two nights in a row, and whose best shirt and walking shorts were chewed up by a monkey that got into our hotel room via the balcony in the middle of the night….the poor guy.
Emily
3 comments:
Well, he will certainly be able to let things roll off easier once you get home! Some guys have to adjust to "nagging" wives, etc., but Ned is too busy worrying about his shorts having been eaten. And whenever you have kids, there won't be 30 of them all crying at once, so that will seem easy too!! :)
We sure miss you guys and think about you a lot. Love, Laura
wow...bed bugs and all. It's so great to hear how you're doing!! We're praying for you and hope you're well.
All I know is that Ned's a madman. First he rides his bike all the way across the country, gets a job that sends him to Africa (and other places), leaves the job, but then still decides to go back to the darkest of the dark continent.
Good luck Ned and Emily. Aimee and I are both thinking about you...
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