Oops!

Everyone knows that when you come to a new culture, there will be lots of funny mistakes.

 

Today I, Angela, in our first day in Taiwan was sitting in our temporary apartment when all of a sudden I heard birds chirping right in our house, and then all of a sudden they stopped. A few seconds later they started again, this time I called Ben and told him that I was hearing birds in the living room. He didn’t believe me, but looked around anyways. Again a few minutes later, those birds started singing again. Finally Ben thought to himself, maybe that is the doorbell, and sure enough April (one of our new friends) was at the door. "Oh, you are home!" when we told her the story she had to laugh.

 

The next ‘oops’ episode happened at lunch. We were in a restaurant eating with our chopsticks when Ben put his down to get a napkin. However, he didn’t just put the chopsticks down anywhere, but standing up in his rice. Our friends we were out for lunch with quickly informed us that meant ‘death to the cook.’ Ben took them out hopefully before the cook ever saw!

 

And that was only the first day!!