Sunday, 20 December 2015

New Help Exchangers...

One week ago four Chinese girls arrived at the farm and will be staying here for 2 weeks. They came to try to learn to speak English more fluently and to experience Hawaii...

Needless to say, there is always the sound of giggling and excitment...and a lot of repeating words, you don't realize how silly squash sounds until you've said it about 30 times. I've been doing a lot of spelling out words and repeating syllables, at least I know where my vocabulary has gotten lazy. Another issue is using slang and teaching them incorrect English...gotta be careful.
Here's a picture of three of the girls sitting on the rock...

They are really nice girls and I've connected with them a bit, I enjoy hanging out with them. They think Mike is funny because he always hunts for fruit and carries his travel spoon and fruit knife for whenever he find some free tropical fruit...he is always prepared! Today I stood on his shoulders to pick a papaya in a park, it was very fun. Here's a pic of the park with the ocean cliff that we went to...didn't think to get a pic of the papaya harvesting but I'm sure this will do...



We're getting ready for Christmas here, they have a huge celebration on Christmas Day and about 200 people show up for it...should be crazy! It's also weird not to have snow...or cold weather to make it seem like winter. Feels like summer but it is getting a wee bit chilly here...got down to 72 degrees the other day and I had to wear long pants!

Tootles

Michelle

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