I've been really busy with school the past few weeks, and that is why I haven't done a post in weeks. :O
So last year in September my family and I had the pleasure of going to Canada! We went for a month, and I have to say it was the greatest holiday we ever had!
I thought I'll share with you one of my many adventures (and probably the funniest one) I had while I was there.
In South Africa, where I'm from, we don't have a Walmart. Rather we have stores like Pick 'n Pay, SPAR, and WoolWorths. Walmart have left it mark on South Africa though, because it bought stores such as Macro and Game, and they sell some of their no name brand products. So it wasn't as though I didn't know anything about this amazing shop.
This one day, the people we were staying with, wanted us to visit their 'medium' Walmart. They'd already taken us to the 'small' one, and I had thought it was big. I was very pleasantly surprised.
When we got there My family and Auntie Joann were dropped off. I went along with Uncle Paul to the house of a girl I had met at the church. Uncle Paul was going to sing with the girl at church the Sunday so they needed to practice. I just wanted to watch. About an hour later we went back to the Walmart. I then proceeded to cruise the rest of the store with my family.
The thing about my family is we can cruise through a grocery store for the longest time. We are far too amazed at all the new products that comes out in the time we are in Malawi. I think the store employees think we must be crazy.
But anyway, back to the story.
When we were checking out my mom gave me some money and told me to get something to drink at the McDonald's.
When I got to the ordering counter I asked for a COKE. I do not know whether she wasn't really listening to me, or maybe didn't understand what I was saying due to my accent, because I could not understand why she said, what she said after that.
"Would you like apple or caramel?"
I think my face must looked somewhat like this:
I stood there just staring at her, and I think she got pretty impatient. I remembered seeing something about apple on my way in, but I thought it had been apple juice, so I just assumed I must have read it incorrectly.
I stood there thinking there is no way apple Coke can be good, and then I remembered reading on the Coke can once that one of the ingredients is caramel, so I assumed the caramel Coke must be 'normal' Coke so I asked for the caramel.
Imagine my surprise when she handed me a small pie.
I said thank you, took the package she was holding out to me, and walked back to my parents as fast as I could and told them what happened. After they laughed they said I can go back and get myself a drink too.
Turns out they had gotten caramel pies too, only they had specifically asked for it.
When I returned to the McDonald's counter the girl asked for my order. I VERY loudly and VERY clearly asked for a ROOT BEER. I decided she couldn't miss hear that.
She didn't and I finally walked off with my drink.
I later decided she must have heard CAKE when I said COKE, and assumed I meant pie.
It makes sense now, but it sure didn't at the time.
So yeah, that's my McDonald's misadventure.
In other news, my family and I will be going to South Africa in a few weeks. I am sooooooo excited.
I have to attend a school convention thing. I am very cautiously excited about that.
It is a five day thing for which I needed to enter in three things. I decided on Poetry and Short Story. I'll post these on here after they have been marked.
The other thing I'm entering in is Checkers, because I wasn't aware you needed three things until Wednesday. Whoever is playing against me can rest assured, because I'm not very good at it.
I'm also doing Camp nanowrimo. My goal is only 10,000 words because I'm too busy for anything else.
Well, that's all I have for now.
Bye!
