Back at the office. Miraculously, managed to remember the three passwords needed for opening the computer, my e-mail and the internet. Been here an hour now and that feeling's already creeping up on me that I've never been away...
Did I tell you that my efforts to learn Papiamento - not a pepper, but the language spoken in Aruba - were quite successful? To my surprise, I was able to understand a fair bit of what the locals said and to decipher accident reports and other exciting stuff in the local newspaper.
We even bought a Bible - one of the few books translated into Papiamento (only 300,000 people speak it) - and entertained each other last night by reading the Sermon on the Mount! "Feliz boso cu ta pober...." JC becomes 'Hesus' and somehow the translators have managed to get the word 'cactus' into the New Testament. Probably something like 'don't hide your light behind a cactus'. Makes it understandable for the islanders who see more cactuses than trees.
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