Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Funny signs

Even the Dogs got into the act!

Two cameras and eight teenagers mixed with several "mysterious" locations, and a time limit, made for a lot of fun last Saturday night at youth group. Ben had the idea of driving around town, taking pictures of different locations from differnt angles, and having the kids try to duplicate them as close as possible. We (Ben and I) were the drivers and we were to say nothing about how to get to the different locations. The kids had to look at the pix on the two cameras and then direct us. I think that my team won! Ben thinks that his team won. Oh well everyone had fun.That's Paulinho with his strange "glasses" at right. And above were (left to right) Ariel, David, Barbara, Rafaela, and me, with Ursinha and Shiba (who seems quite bored with the whole idea. It also looks like both Ariel and Ursinha have the shys). Ben's message that night was "God is Suficient". It is a concept that many of our young believers cannot grasp. The verse they were to memor...

Signs of the Times?

The yogurt here is different than the Stateside yogurt. The consistency is something like thick milk. Not milkshake thick but thicker than milk. And the flavor is usually strawberry. Everything strawberry! Along with that difference comes the different names that the products have. There is Coke, Sony, IBM. But, some times we find really funny applications of the English language in product names. We've seen: Snob paper towels, Bob napkins, a car battery called Crawl, a drugstore called Fartos, pop (or soda as you will) called Dolly. But as Dawn went for the yogurt today she said, "Do you think that this will be good?" And we all had a good laugh as we thought about the difficulty of milking a BAT!