{"id":387,"date":"2008-12-12T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T19:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2012-07-07T20:49:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T02:49:02","slug":"my-ice-cream-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/my-ice-cream-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ice Cream Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meet my very friendly and beautiful ice cream lady:<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know her name and she doesn\u2019t understand English, but I consider her a friend.\u00a0 Iris, my language tutor, went with me to get ice cream tonight and helped me ask if I could take pictures for my blog.\u00a0 My ice cream lady made up this colorful cone just for the picture.\u00a0 She KNOWS I eat chocolate ice cream!\u00a0 Then she carefully replaced the scoops in the proper containers.<\/p>\n

The small booth is located in the entrance to Carrefour, a market in the Teinmu area.\u00a0 The\u00a0 ice cream is tasty, very reasonably priced, and comes in many varieties.\u00a0 It is served in 1, 2, or 3 scoop sizes in bowls or cones.\u00a0\u00a0 There are only a couple of flavors that we can\u2019t understand and haven\u2019t tried.<\/p>\n

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These prices are for New Taiwanese dollars, so no, we are not buying $40 ice cream cones in US dollars!<\/p>\n

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A couple of weeks ago I went to get ice cream, but she put it in a cone before I remembered to ask for a bowl.\u00a0 I had always gotten it in a cone before my bicycle crash.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t too complicated to ask her to put it in a bowl, but I felt bad.\u00a0 I had learned some vocabulary to try to communicate about my accident and there were no other customers at the moment, so I thought I\u2019d try to explain things.\u00a0 I told her I had crashed on my bike and pointed to some of the marks on my face.\u00a0 Obviously, I didn\u2019t phrase it right to give a sense of when this had happened (it was about 3 weeks since surgery, 5 weeks since the crash) because she immediately rushed over to the customer service counter directly across from her stand and asked for a first aide box.\u00a0 I know this because they got the kit out and handed it to her.<\/p>\n

At this point I was fairly consternated that I had caused her undue concern and created a scene.\u00a0 I waved aside the first aide attempt and asked the young lady behind the counter if she understood English.\u00a0 She said, yes, a little.\u00a0 So I tried to tell her that it was okay, I have already seen the doctor and I\u2019m just not allowed to chew anything yet.\u00a0 Well, all she understood was \u201cdoctor.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 She hurried to pull out the phone and apparently try to call one!<\/p>\n

Things were obviously out of control.\u00a0 One other person was standing near looking like they understood and wanted to help, but the few words I said to them were likewise counterproductive.\u00a0 I think they wanted to call an ambulance.\u00a0\u00a0 So – I smiled, walking away while waving my hands about some saying, \u201cNo, no, no.\u00a0 Its okay.\u201d\u00a0 Most people seem to understand \u201cno\u201d and \u201cokay.\u201d<\/p>\n

My bowl with the upside down ice cream cone in it was still on the counter at the ice cream stand, so I went to pick it up, having already paid.\u00a0 A fourth young lady was approaching hesitantly behind me.\u00a0 In a soft tone, she said, \u201cI think I understand.\u201d and we were able to communicate enough for her to explain things to my ice cream lady.\u00a0 Sigh of relief.<\/p>\n

The next time I went for ice cream, my ice cream lady smiled a very friendly smile.\u00a0 With some simple mime and tone of voice, she asked how I was doing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I told her just two more weeks until I could chew.\u00a0 She seemed to understand.\u00a0 I honestly don\u2019t remember what words or language I was trying to use at this point.\u00a0 However, I didn\u2019t have to ask for a bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet my very friendly and beautiful ice cream lady: I don\u2019t know her name and she doesn\u2019t understand English, but I consider her a friend.\u00a0 Iris, my language tutor, went with me to get ice cream tonight and helped me ask if I could take pictures for my blog.\u00a0 My ice cream lady made up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}