Well we made it\u2026 Kandi and I were dreading customs here in Brazil and\u2026 they did not even open a single bag. Not one. We had 17 pieces of luggage because we did not understand the weight limit for our carry-ons only 5 KG. \u00a0God was very gracious.<\/p>\n
But what I really want to tell you about is my first culture blunder but day 2 was worse. \u00a0So form the get go, day one I have to eat humble pie. We went over to a Brazilian missionary\u2019s house for supper. We had a version of spaghetti that I had never had before but it was Delicious epically after a long day.\u00a0 My blunder came when I was served dessert. I decided to give my bowl of homemade coconut Ice-cream to Samuel. I was the guest of honor there for served first. \u00a0It took some convincing on my part, to let our host know that I did not give away the ice-cream because I did not like it but that I wanted to make sure he got some. \u00a0It was not appropriate to give away what I was served unles I did not like it. \u00a0so for the first day it was not too bad.<\/p>\n
Day 2 I was talking with one of our missionary coworkers and tried to say in Portuguese speaking of a soccer ball that the boys wanted to play with \u201cDid\u2019t you bring it in here already?\u201d\u00a0 Instead I said \u201cDidn\u2019t you have an affair in here already.\u201d\u00a0 He was very gracious and said that is not a very nice word and then we talked about what I was trying to say.<\/p>\n
I am not sure that I won\u2019t make that mistake again because the Spanish word for \u201cbring\u201d is the same word for \u201chave an affair\u201d in Portuguese. Sometimes knowing Spanish will make it more difficult.\u00a0 Here is another one for ya, the Portuguese word (Lunche) pronounced (lun\u2019chy) means supper. \u00a0Just a little confusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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