Crochet

My freind, Masami, is learning crochet from Patricia's grand-mother. The other day, after we had lunch over there, ( we are often invited for lunch...nice!) they started to have crochet class at the porch! I was bored just watching them, so I joined the club!!
I have been doing crochet since I was a child, so I started to make a small bag on my own. Grandma asked me "What are you making" " when I was working on the second line and said "give it to me" then without saying anything, she untied my second line!!! I was like, "Oops, what are you doing, Grandma!!!" hahaha
She started crochetting and showed me a new way...maybe Brazilian way!!!
She explained something in Portuguese but as you can imagine, I had no idea what she was saying, but I could understand what she was doing and repeated "quatro, dois, quatro, dois, ne!" (Four, two, four, two, right?) . I went back to my seat and continued. We had about an hour of crochet class, and grandma said, "OK, see you next monday!!" and went back to her home.

Today was the Monday but my friend had to work, so I went to the host family's house alone for the first time. Grandma wasn't there when I arrived so I watched TV with Ivanuldo and Edinede! While we were waiting the grandma to arrive, they asked me some questions. I'm not sure if I had the right answers for their questions, but Ivanuldo always laughs no matter what anyone says so we had a good time?!! haha

Once grandma arrived, we had crochet class for about one and half hour!! Again, I could only repeat numbers, but I finished one side. She said, she would teach me how to put two pieces together next time!!! That means, I have to finish another side by the next class....

Without my friend, who is my translator, I had really hard time but I could survive this afternoon !!!!

Edineide gave me fruits that grew in thier garden and told me which one we should eat first!
I told her that I will walk back and I safely came back to my freind's apartment!!!

It was the first experience to really spend about 3-4 hours with no English or Japanese!!! I did good!!! hahaha

p.s. it's almost like I live here not like I'm a tourist...so I often forget to bring a camera with me. Next time, I will try to remember and take a pictures of grandma!!!

友達のマサミは、パトリシアのおばあちゃんから編み物を習っている。先日も、お昼ご飯をごちそうになりに出かけ、食後に玄関先で編み物教室が始まった！
何もしないで見ているのはつまらないので、私もお仲間に入れてもらう事にした。
編み物はちっちゃい頃からやっている私、適当にちっちゃいカバンでもと、勝手に編み出していたら、おばあちゃんが、「何を作っているんだい？」と聞き、「ちょっとかしてごらん！」と私の２段程編んだカバンを手にすると同時に、シュルシュルシュル！っと一段ほどいてしまった！！！
オーイ！！何してくれる！！！と一瞬思ったけれど。。。
こうした方がいいよ！と新しい編み方を教えてくれるおばあちゃん！
しゃべり続けていろいろ説明してくれるけど、全く何を言っているのか分からない私は、編み目の数を、”クゥアトロ、ドイス、クゥアトロ、ドイス、ネ！”（４つ、２つ、４つ、２つ、ね！”ね、の使い方はほぼ日本語と同じ”）とだけ言い返し、また席につき編み始める。そんな作業が１時間程続き、おばあちゃんは、じゃ、また月曜日に！と言って帰っていった。

そして今日がその月曜日。友達はお仕事があったため、初めて一人でホストファミリーのお家に行ってきた。
おばあちゃんは、まだ来ていなかったので、リビングでパパさん、ママさんとしばらくテレビを見る事に。
質問に的を得た返事をしているかは定かではないが、パパさんは何を言っても笑ってくれるので、楽しい会話？が続いた！
そして、今日もまた、数だけの会話で、１時間半ほどの編み物教室が終わり、私は片面を縫い上げた！
今度は２枚編んだ物をつなぎ合わせるところをやるからね！といって、おばあちゃんは帰っていった。

通訳なしにこれだけ分かるならたいしたもんだ！！！（笑）

庭になっていたフルーツをもらい、アパートまで歩いて帰ると告げ、迷う事なく友達のアパートにたどり着いた私！

よくやった！！！と言ってやりたい！（笑）

p.s.最近すっかり観光気分がぬけてしまい、もうここでに生活してるって感じなので、出かける時についカメラを忘れてしまうのです。次回の編み物教室の時は忘れないよう、おばあちゃん達をパシャリしてきたいと思います！