Good morning/noon/afternoon/evening.
Where are you coming from?
Where are you going?
How are you?
It's hot out/raining. Whey are you out?
Oy! Friend (followed by an above question)
My favorite: Hey Joe, kaon ka tae!
It's not that they really care how you are, or where you are going. It's just a greeting. A friendly aspect to their culture that I loved.
Coming home it felt so odd to walk down the street and have someone walk by with out even looking at me. Now I have a teacher that is Armenian. She said that she loves how friendly everyone is her in America, how we all greet each other as we pass on the street with a "hi" or "good morning" or what not. This confused me. Now I realize that America is not as friendly as some places, but more so than a lot of places.
Today, as I was walking home for lunch, I passed a house just as an older women was walking out the door. She immediately struck up a conversation with me as we walked a few house lengths to where her car was parked and I continued home. I felt so uplifted from this encounter. It was so nice to have a complete stranger greet me and care about me for that two minutes.
I am not sure what the moral of the story is. But I just thought it was a neat experience and who knows, maybe one of the few people who read my blog will think so to.
3 comments:
what's "kaon ka tae?"
oh, that's just their frindly way of telling us to "eat crap!"
I just found your blog Brandon! Yay! And for the record, I liked this story too. :o)
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