Tortillas, squatty potties, and angry drivers

These past few days have been filled with firsts- some more exciting than others. To start off with, I MADE TORTILLAS!!! Since tortillas aren't available at our local grocery mart, and where they are available (45 min away), they are about $5 a pack, I decided to attempt to make my own. It was pretty simple (flour, butter, salt and water), but lots of rolling involved (who would of thought tortillas needed to be rolled flat as paper!). I think the receipe I used was for the little fajita size because they turned out super small. Mental note: Next time only divide the dough into 6 balls instead of 12! Not too shabby for a 1st timer!

 

Today, Hubby and I decided to leave the girls with the helpers (that’s for sure a first!) and head to the grocery store. We were doing great with time until the very end. It was around that time that I became aware of the fact that I needed to pee. But it was ok, I'm a big girl...I could hold it till we got home.  I grabbed some oranges and went to the man at the weight station. He put a price label on them saying they cost about $6.50---for ORANGES! No way! I’m pretty sure the sign said they were $1.40/some weight and I knew they didn’t weigh that much…not $7 worth. So being the American that I am, I tried to ask someone. They had no idea why the weight machine kept printing out expensive stickers, so they disappeared ….for a long loooong looong time (did I mention I was doing the pee dance at this point!). Ten minutes later someone else walks up to the sticker machine and prints another sticker-- $2.50! Much better! As I’m paying for the oranges I realized that there was no way I was making it home- Squatty Potty here I come! Now I can’t honestly say this was a first- I did pee in a squatty potty once when I was in China seven years ago! But you know how when you are at ch—ch and they have all the first time visitors stand up, and then they add “or first time in a long time…” well I figured since this was my “first time in a long time” that I would add it in here :) After I was finished peeing (and hands were thoroughly sanitized) I got in the car with Hubby and announced: “I didn’t even pee on myself!” His response was: “Did you get it in the toilet?” Really Hun?? Really!!!  Yes I got in in the Toilet!!! Haha ok sorry I just had to add that in here!

Moving on to more exciting things…some friends of ours were going into Big City to see Monsters Inc/University. We decided that since Hubby has been doing to great driving around Language City, that he would drive to Big City, following our friends. Did you just pee yourself from laughter???  Yes we really thought it was possible to follow someone in SEA for an hour long drive in traffic. Have I mentioned the crazy motorcycle drivers? Well, all was going well until Hubby slightly bumped a car that pulled out in front of us! Ahhh! I didn’t even feel it, but all of a sudden a very angry man got out of his car and started yelling in another language. He motioned for us to get to the left side of the road (we were on the far right in stand still traffic). We could clearly see that NOTHING happened to his car- not even a scratch! We tried asking him what he wanted from us since his car was fine, but he just kept yelling in SEA language.  Traffic started moving…We said we were sorry over and over again and then tried to drive off (did I mention we had now lost the car we were following and we had no idea where we were going?). So we start driving, and lo and behold angry man takes off and pulls in front of us and blocks all flowing traffic. He gets out yet again and starts yelling (this time in English…surprise surprise…he does speak English…and VERY WELL!) “Why you try to run!!! You have driver’s license? Give it to me or I will call the police!” We explained that we were sorry for bumping him, we did have a driver’s license and we even showed it to him- but that was not good enough! He wanted us to give him the license! We asked why over and over again but he just kept yelling: “Give it to me or I will call the police!” Um…NO! I’m pretty sure he wanted to intimidate us and get some “collateral” so that we would have to give him $$$ in order to get back the license. Well Hubby, being the great driver he is, backed up on the high way that was completely crowded by cars and speed around crazy angry man’s car. I think at that moment I was about to puke! I’ve never had those types of nerves running throughout my body! Warning: Stay away from all black Toyota SUVs! I am NEVER driving to BIG CITY….EVER!!!!  

Well, it’s been a loooong day! And I’m so ready to jump into bed! Please keep Pr-ying for our visas! As it is we won’t be starting language school till mid-Aug, and I’m so ready to be able to understand what is going on around me!