Monday, September 21, 2009

Speak Your Language

When I was in the MTC, we were always encouraged to practice speaking the language we were learning. This we did even though most of our conversations went like, "I am [blank]." "Me, too." (Repeated ad nauseum.)Unfortunately, not everyone appreciated our commitment to learning.

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  1. Dober šala. Jaz ljubezen to. Svoj najljubši del je punca iztiskanje.

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  2. And here's the translation of Mindy's comment (using one of the web's language translators):

    "Good joke. I love it. My favorite part of the girl expression."

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  3. Poor lunch ladies always get a bad rap. There must be some out there that love what they do and smile at the kids going through their line, though I have yet to see one.

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  4. The cafeteria workers at the MTC are, by and large, BYU students. So those lunch ladies really have no incentive to be friendly to their customers--I mean, it's not like they're going to get a date out of it.

    I also imagine having every other missionary order food in a foreign language would get really old.

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  5. What's better than finding a poor missionary looking for a girl to write him letters on his mission and then dear johnning him and breaking his heart? What a power trip. That should be incentive enough for those MTC lunch ladies to be nice to the missionaries.

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  6. Jena, you are positively evil.

    Arie, nice self-portrait.

    Mindy, excellent use of Slovene

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