"Do you want to eat OUT?"

Although we are getting somewhat better with the language we have a long, long, long way to go before we could even be considered at the kindgergarten level.

Case in point:

At Laura's Bible Study on Tuesday night, she wanted to propose to the group that the next meeting could be at a local restuarant. She thought a change of scenery would be nice and the ladies here don't have many opportunities to just be by themselves and enjoy fellowship.

So, she asks "What would you think if we maybe went out to eat next week?" ... nothing but silence! Again, she says "You know, we could all meet here and then go somewhere in Cesis and have a meal out." Nothing but silence and quizzical looks. Finally, she says "I just thought you might want to eat out together since we all have families to take care of. It would just be this group eating and having our lesson."

Eventually, one brave soul said "Do you mean we are going to meet and eat OUTSIDE?" Remember it is still below freezing here most days! They didn't want to tell Laura she was crazy but it just did not translate that they were going OUT to eat.

We run into those grammtical problems often...the best we can do is to laugh and start over.