Lost in Translation

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Part I:
From the business card of a restaurant (copied exactly):

Sculpting in Time
Beef-steak Italy Pizza Spaghetti
Ladies and Gentlements:
Are you going to share an unadu-
lteratod cafe with the form of Am-
erican countryside? Are you
going to share delicious Pizza? Are you
going to share fresh steak? Yes!
Welcome to Sculpting in Time

Part II:
Written on our pillowcases:

Best wishes
Do you like

Part III:
Dinner Scene

We were at dinner last night with some teachers and students from our school, talking about our favorite music, etc, and one of the students asks Michael,
"Do you like Lee ta Ree cha?"
"Little Richard??"
And the students repeats "Lee ta Ree cha"
And Michael again says "Little Richard??"
The student kind of nods his head yes so Michael starts saying "You mean the guy with the little mustache??"
The student nods again, so Michael starts thinking about it, "Um...Well..."
Meanwhile I'm trying to tell Michael what the student was actually asking, but he was just too into Little Richard to hear me.
Then finally the teacher next to us says it more clearly...
"Oh--Literature!"

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2 Comments

Henni said:

Niemand schreibt einen Kommentar - kein Wunder, was soll man dazu schon sagen????? Man ist einfach nur "lost"!

Bussi, Henni

P.S.: Das Essen mit Mütze und Jacke erinnert mich an das Schokolade-Essen-Spiel bei den Kindereinladungen, aber da war's wenigstens nie kalt!

Sally Lock said:

Hi, it's been a while since I last checked in but wow what a lot you've been up to. Funny to think of everyone you know or have met in different places around the world reading this. My scenario is that I am sitting in an internet cafe 2 streets away from Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament surrounded by Koreans, Indians and Chinese (probably relaying their travel stories back home of the weird English people they’ve met) and your stories are making me laugh out loud so I am getting a few weird looks, but I don’t mind it has been the best piece of travel writing I have read. Enjoy yourselves and I’ll check in on you again soon. Love Sally (UMass Acco/ Charlottes friend)

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