Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Who's Brenda?

Great day today!

I was politely requested not to post random photos of my host family on Facebook. That seems sensible to me. So I removed the post and photo of my host parents from my Facebook feed. If I can find a way to make this blog private (available only to approved readers), then I'll post more family pics here. My host father, mother, and brother are wonderful people. I would love to introduce them all to you properly. The privacy feature that would allow me to restrict the blog appears not to be working now.

I asked Eddie how long his parents had been married. He said 52 years, today (!!). So I wished them a happy anniversary via Google translator. I got the message through. It was nice.

My host father Emin ("baba") is "on a pension," as they say here. He is 10 years retired from being an Albanian language teacher. So he is very interested in my PC language instruction class materials and notes. He pores over them each night before dinner. He teaches me shqip. I teach him English. Hanko (my host mother) laughs from the kitchen. Eddie hangs around and translates, as needed. It all works so smoothly, as though it were scripted. My life has become a movie!

Speaking of language, I am studying one that has THIS as a word:

"Zgjidhni." This isn't something exotic. It's the second person imperative of the verb "to choose." It just means "choose." I don't remember how to pronounce it, but make sure you have plenty of air and spit. And throat. Use plenty of throat.

There are very few English cognates in shqip. There are some cool false cognates though. "Motër" means "sister" and not "mother." Pretty cool, huh? Oh, and I laughed a long time today when I leared the words for outside/inside. "Outside" is "jashtë." Sounds shqippy enough. "Inside" is "brenda." It sounds like "Brenda." Like the name. I'm not sure if I was delirious or what, but I laughed really hard at this. Also, Albanians have the expression "Të bëftë mirë," which means literally "May you digest well." I also laughed really hard at this. I think it was just me today.

"Brenda"... pshhhhhthsghhhhahaha!

We observed teachers today. They wear white coats. It looks like the classes are run by pharmacists.



Oh, have I mentioned the chickens? In my
village, roosters and hens roam freely through the yards and streets. They also make loud chicken noises that are clearly audible during classes. It's so freakin' funny to me. I wondered why or how they all come back after wandering around all day. Antonia reminded me of the expression about chickens coming home to roost. It was an a-ha moment, for sure.

Last item for tonight: for lunch we made a second visit to a little bugaçe stand. A "bugaçe" (BOO-GOT-cha, sort of) is a kind of pastry with meat. These had fried dough and sausage. One of my favorite new foods here. It cost 30 cents. Incredible!




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