We got to talk to our missionary today! He said a lot of good stuff, but here are the highlights:
"German machines don't believe in receipts."
"We're (Americans) so barbaric, we can put our direct object basically where ever we want."
(referring to the wives of the mission leaders) "we're not sure if they know German...they just smile...and other important things"
"I mean, we have a CD player, but it's this little ghetoo thing, manufactured by communist workers...or in the underground...I mean, the laser doesn't read the CD...it etches symbols on it...like hammers."
"Only took a second to see through their clever ruse (referring to this "One Payer" plan of Obama's and how it's socialist)...we republicans have cleverer ruses."
The play-by-play:
He told us a lot about his new area, about the "dorfs" and how expensive it is to use the S-bahn everywhere so they're on bikes a lot of the time.
We asked him about his glasses, and he's going in tomorrow to get them checked to make sure he can get them fixed. Apparently, the eye doctors had no idea what his prescription meant...they must use some other sort of denotation over there.
He told us about Elder Cameron, with whom he is getting along (like a house on fire), which is very good news for us here.
I asked him about vernacular use of "zu tun." He allievated my fears - Germans use it, therfore German students can use it. WAhahahaha...*cough*
We talked about AP tests and the ridiculously impossible free response portions.
I told him about one of the teachers at school who's sick...
Mom asked a lot about if he was getting enough sleep and to eat and whatnot.
He told us some funny stories about the branch and whatnot, and how one of the people in his branch really loves starbursts.
Dad made sure he was still in contact with the people who he's going to rent an apartment from when he gets home, because in about seven months, they need to have one picked and the paperwork in.
He told us he needed more peanut butter and a CD player (see quote above.)
And that was about it. We just chatted and had a good time. He said that in context of calling home and general conferences, he was now half done with his mission! He'll actually be half done next August!
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