blunder number 72...

so, being in a new culture with a different language and such, you can imagine the cultural mishaps that take place in our daily lives...

last night, we had one of these such experiences with Alvin and Sylvia (Sylvia doesn't speak any english, Alvin speaks only a little english) last night on the ride home from Gavidia.

A little background - Kristen is the female leader of our team and with a distinctly parental myers briggs of ESFJ has earned the nickname 'mom' 'mama' 'mother' 'etc.'

Kristen, sadly, was not feeling good last night and so stayed home from campus ministry. On the way back we proceeded to sarcastically joke that we could now 'party and have some actual fun' since momma wasn't around. Sylvia and Alvin then proceeded to laugh hysterically. We, of course thought this was funny as well...but Joe was quick to learn from Sylvia - through hand motions I might add - that the way we pronounced 'momma' did not mean mama, as we thought, but breast. Joe then had to turn back and explain to the rest of what had happened. We called Kristen breast. It was awesome. and there are many more to come i'm sure!