Thursday, January 08, 2004

So forgive me as I wipe the tears from my eyes.... Here is an example of a language barrier. They provided us with pizza for lunch so myself and the guy that I came here with (Andrew) decided we wanted a coke with it. We go to the coke machine and put in the money and push the coke button. Nothing happens. We start pushing buttons trying to get the money out so that we can try again but it give the money back!!! No money and no Coke!!! Unfortunately the instructions (Have you ever needed instructions for a coke machine?) are in french. So we just keep pushing buttons. After about 5 minutes a coke finally pops out and the change form the 5 we had put in!!! Well we still needed one more! So Andrew puts to money in again and we go through the whole thing. We finally called someone over and she couldn't figure it out either! Eventually another coke and some change came out. Total time about 10 minutes to get 2 cokes... (actually 3 because a third one popped out for no reason) We later found out that the machine doesn't like it when you don't use exact change and it takes it's time. So we were just being extremely impatient..... Excuse me while I stop writing so I can go back to drinking my hard earned Coke.

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