Language fun

For three weeks we are privileged to have with us two girls who are the daughters of an Irish mother and an Australian father. The girls don't have particularly strong accents, but in the last 48 hours we have had fun noting the differences in vocabulary. For example:

One of them came down to breakfast this morning and asked, "Where can I find the cuttle-ree?" "The what?" I said? "Cuttle-ree." "Oh, cutlery! Silverware, you mean."

Yesterday one of them had a headache and asked for the Mah-trin, (Motrin).

"Capsicum" is their word for red bell pepper. "Bikkie" is cookie.

I love listening to them. And I think it's awesome that we are a minority in our home right now with 2 Irish/Australians, a Columbian and a Philipino.

Good times. :)

10 ways to pray for us

This is a video done by Jacob Bock, a veteran missionary here in Madrid, whose kids have attended ECA. He tells 10 ways to pray for missionaries and we wanted to post it to ask you to pray this way for us and for others.

Camarma en fiestas

David and Rachel went to a "bull fight" Friday night. In a traditional bull fight, the bull is killed by the matador during the fight. In the event that we attended, however, there were 12 recortadores who perform acrobatics around the bull. Here are a couple of five second videos to give you an idea of what it was like:

Obviously, this can be rather dangerous. One of the recortadores tripped when running from the bull, which gave Rachel a fright. The bull roughed him up a good bit, but the others rescued him and he walked away!

One other note of interest - the guy who was walking around selling raffle tickets for the leg of ham that he was carrying. It was raffled off near the end of the evening.

Multi-lingual

One interesting thing we have noticed is the multi-language labeling on food products here. Because Europe has so many languages represented in such a small area, food distributors just

print them all, I guess.

Can anyone tell me what languages these are?

Here I'm guessing italian, Dutch, English and Greek?

Sometimes they make it easy.