{"id":33,"date":"2006-03-09T00:47:11","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T07:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/index.php\/2006\/03\/09\/a-little-sinhala-a-little-too-late\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T17:28:49","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T00:28:49","slug":"a-little-sinhala-a-little-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/a-little-sinhala-a-little-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"A little Sinhala, a little too late."},"content":{"rendered":"

All good things come to an end. Today is my last day in Sri Lanka, and I am not sure I will ever come back. A month in a foreign country — not too shabby.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the time, the changes are funny. My feet are constantly dirty, and my hair, ravaged by the humidity has just given up and turned into a British fro, if such a thing exists. My mom would cry. I have been so busy while here that it has been hard to keep up with myself.<\/p>\n

It would have made sense to learn some Sinhala<\/a> while I was here, but for some reason I never did. Somehow in my personal labor camp it seemed unimportant. One more victim of lack of time. Yesterday, however, in the emotional preparations for my return, a classic moment crossed the line, linking this life to my past.<\/p>\n

“How do you say ‘no’?”, I asked Kara. She had been yelling at a driver who had intentionally taken us out of our way in order to make some extra cash.<\/p>\n

She looked at me, stunned at the realization that I had somehow missed these essentials. “Nae” (sounds like “Neh”), she said. I looked back at her and burst into hysterics.<\/p>\n

“What?” she asked, my laughter having scared the driver back onto the right course. Kara had said this so many time during my time in Sri Lanka, and I had always found it a bit amusing. Carly<\/a>, in moments of indifference or annoyance would respond in exactly the same way. “Neh.” I assumed that Kara was doing the same. To find out that all this time Carly had been accurately expressing her emotions in Sinhala was a bit too much.<\/p>\n

The other day, Carly sent me an email. “Write in your blog”, she said. The truth is that I have a half dozen half finished entries that I have been to busy to finish. So, in short Carly, “Nae.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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