Watch Me Eat This!

Ibu W. comes five days a week to clean our house.  This is a big help to me since I am homeschooling the kids.  This week she has added a couple of hours each day and I am teaching her to cook.  This will also be a huge help for me as most things have to be cooked from scratch, again requiring more time than what I have these days.

Today she and I made peanut butter cookies.  While we worked in the kitchen I asked her about yesterday.

"Yesterday you didn't eat the food I made for you,"  I said.

"Oh, I thought it was yours," she replied.

Oh no!  Just what I'd feared, another mis-communication!!  Yesterday I was making bean burritos and she was asking about it.  I went into this whole explanation of Mexican food and how we are from Texas and love Mexican food.  I showed her the tortillas and the beans and cheese and the homemade salsa I had made.  Then I thought, well, I should make her one.  I cut a tortilla in half and made two little ones.  I thought I would demonstrate to her how to roll it up and eat it.  She was washing dishes at the time, but I called her to turn around and see what I was doing.  I told her she should try it and showed her the burrito on the plate.  Then I rolled mine up and showed her how to eat it, popping my half into my mouth.  But I left hers in the kitchen, not wanting her to feel like she had to eat it right away.  That's why I was surprised to find the plate and burrito still sitting on the kitchen table after she left.

So today we talked about it and I discovered that my Indonesian was not very clear yesterday!  Ha, big surprise I know.  Anyway, she thought I was just showing her how you are supposed to eat a burrito and that the extra one was mine.  I am horrified that she thought I was just eating in front of her to show her how I ate my burrito!

Thankfully we both got a good laugh about it and then talked about how, even within the same country there are many cultures and even differences in meaning between people who speak the same language.  Well, I am glad that we laughed and that she now understands what I meant yesterday.  I was VERY CAREFUL to explain today that she could take some cookies home and she even understood me! ha!