everyday things

I am sitting in a very smokey internet cafe right now, it is even hard to see the screen. It has taken KC and I a couple of days to find a place to e-mail. The definition of internet cafe has changed for us, you think that it should be a nice quiet place while you drink your coffee and e-mail your friends. Wrong, what we have come across are very dark, somewhat spooky, dance music blaring and very smokey rooms with a few computers and sigh...no coffee.
Everyday we are reminded how little things, like taking out the garbage, can be a chore if you don't understand the language or culture. There are so many mysteries when having a language barriers, for example we went out for pizza tonight and I don't know what I ordered but when it arrived it was like an omelet on a slice of pizza....and they eat ketchup with their pizza! Also, grocery shopping can be a challenge, I thought that it would be easy...but I bought pepper and it turned out to be lemon pepper....and then I bought salt and it turned out to be salt for softening meat. (we were wondering why all our food tasted funny)
I know that it will get easier with time and then we will laugh at our struggles. Actually, right now we are working on painting our appartment, but we really don't know how to go about this. Our bedroom had alot of wallpaper on the walls, and it was very childish....so we ripped it all off to expose plaster walls. So, I guess that next step is getting some paint...but the problem is that we don't even know the word for paint. Okay, I think that we will survive and we have meet some very helpful people here.