Ok so for the past two days I have been sleeping....Seriously sleeping in bed for 48 hours. I had a cold and thought it was going away but then the day after my massage I was so achey. I thought it was from the massage but then even my ankles and my forearms hurt and the massage was not that rough in those areas so Sunday I spent the whole day sleeping. Suonllen and Asia took a trip to the massage place and Javi played video games while I slept. The next think I knew, Suonllen was getting ready to go to bed, it was 9:45 at night! So I ate something and went back to bed within the hour. Monday, I planned on doing the same thing as sunday. The only time I got up was to go potty and eat a little something. So, when the Ayi came, she looked at me like, "what's up? why you still in bed?" so I got out my handy dandy picture book and pointed to cold. "Ah ah ah" she said as she left me by myself. I was grateful to have the Ayi because I knew dinner would be made for the kids and Suonllen and I could continue to stay in bed.
Today, however, I am feeling much better and have decided to prepare for the Ayi's visit today. I need to communicate with her that I want her to clean the bathrooms, the floors of the showers, the sides of the toilets, everything! I am not sure how I am going to do this but I am thinking of starting with some simple printed out symbols in Manadrin for her to read since my Chinese is next to nothing.
This seems to be the best way for me to communicate with the non english speaking people. When I try to speak Manadrin, they look at me like I am speaking english to them so some times it's just better to use the translator...
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