Monday, February 11, 2008

Monday's Gratitude Journal: Translators

Today I am very thankful for translators! One of my new friends, Joe, has a little electronic pocket translator. It can go from English to many different languages... One is Czech... It has already helped us out so much after one week! I have never been anywhere that has such a language barrier. If you watched the video from yesterday, you would see how people who DO speak English talk here. Then, there is the majority of people. Not a word of English. The trams were shut down yesterday when Rachel and I tried to go to town. There was a sign posted, but we had NO IDEA what it said...Finally, after waiting a while, a woman took us under her wing and pointed us in the right direction...It is just weird... A whole new world...

1 comment:

kayla0637 said...

Wow, I'm sure that really does help! You should have gotten one of those little electronic translators sister! then it wouldn't take you so long to try to tell people you have to go to the bathroom and there wouldn't be so much confusion! haha ;)