Beauty For Ashes...

"...beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor." Isaiah 61:3

Friday, March 20, 2009

Das not funny Friday...

It’s finally Friday! How many times this week did you hear or see something and think… “Das Not Funny!” but then realize that it actually was pretty funny? Well, such is the purpose of this blogapolooza known as Das Not Funny! Friday.
Check out this blog to see what else is not funny. Plus, by going over here you can see who else has seen or heard something and thought Das Not Funny! then stifled a giggle or even laughed out loud! Come on, you know you wanna…

So I promised my wonderful friend Jessica that I would give this a try.  Obviously, I don't have children but we will see how I do, k?

  1. Today we all went and got our visas extended so we aren't in the country illegally.  On our way home we stopped by the Sarit center to pick up a couple things.  On our way out we have to drive around a very busy round- a-bout.  There are usually people on the far side where cars are sitting still looking for "wazungu" (AKA- white people) to ask for $$.  Sure enough a man comes to the window and asks us for money.  With the putrid smell of alcohol being wafted into the car Chris asks him in swahili "Do you like Beer?"  The man replies in swahili "No, I like weed." Hey- we can appreciate honesty.  Most of the drunk men we meet deny ever having had a sip of alcohol. I gave the man some peanut butter crackers and we drove on.  
  2. I am known for my disablity to spell and read.  We figured out it was because I was never hooked on Po-Honiks.  With this in mind a few months ago I entered a food court to have lunch with Chris, Joy, and a Kenyan friend.  I marched straight over to the "Rendezvous" sandwich shop and stated "I want the chicken RIN-DIZ-VOWS".  My best friend and husband were squatting in the floor laughing as I looked around very confused as to what possibly warranted their hysterical laughter.  
  3. A little while back, Shauna and I were teaching a lesson on creation to some slums children.  The night before we were trying to prepare our lesson and get all of our animals together for our felt board.  Shauna had all of the felt animals and I was naming off the ones I needed for the creation story: "Giraffe, elephants, donkey, lions... oh yes, and hand me the unicorn as well."  After about 10 minutes of looking, frustrated Shauna looks up at me and says "I CAN'T FIND THE STUPID UNICORN!  IT'S NOT IN HERE!"  No, Shauna... it sure isn't

3 comments:

  1. thanks for the laugh!! and for your encouragement! love you

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  2. hahahaha

    those are great! Thanks for keeping your promise.

    Love you.

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  3. I sure got a kick out of the rin-dez-vooz. I can seriously see Chris' reaction to that, and I picture it being much like my own! The cashier probably thought "Isn't our menu in English?"

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