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| The 50ft + trees I sat admiring |
After 9 weeks solid in the big city, this weekend we made
our first excursion out into the countryside (~5 hours away). A highlight of the
trip was when we visited a garden that has been in our adopted Grandpa's family
for at least 4 generations. Shortly after we arrived, I wanted to show off all the
language I've been learning by cracking a joke.
I was admiring the height of a couple huge palm trees,
rehearsing the joke in my mind, when finally I spit it out fluently (see this blog
post's title for a translation). They understood my words clearly, the only
problem was they didn't understand I was joking, and they answered basically,
"Oh he's right over there."
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| Half-way up |
Yeah, they actually called the guy who
cuts down their coconuts! As I began to feel guilty I scrambled quickly to spit
out another sentence "I was just joking!" But after retrieving a 12
inch knife from a neighboring house, they sent him up the tree without any kind
of climbing gear or safety net, and he cut down about a dozen coconuts, which
we subsequently enjoyed together. What a treat!
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| and it started raining coconuts... |
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| All-the-way UP |
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| These cocnuts had probably 24+oz of sweet juice inside |
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| Grandpa and Whitman enjoy some together |
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| And they were full of sweet jello meat we all loved |
