Counting to 10 in Tetun

B-Back from Arkansas, now. Right now we're at Travis' parent's house doing laundry and preparing our cars for their selling day. We had vacuumed and armor-alled the insides a couple of weeks ago, but today we washed the outside. I try to be positive, but I really don't think mine is going to sell. If anyone wants a 1990 Nissan Stanza, let me know. If it doesn't sell by the end of the month, I'm donating it to the Women's Shelter or the Veterans or something. I gotta get rid of it. Past mid-May, it won't even be insured. Travis' is slightly better, a 1993 Honda Civic, but it has an outrageous amount of miles on it, like 260,000 or something. The previous owner said it had been dragged behind a motorhome and that's why the mileage is so high. Still, with that many miles it'll be hard to find a buyer.

We learned today how to count from one to ten in Tetun (Tet-oon), the language we will be learning (and hopefully speaking) in East Timor. I say hopefully because there are 30-something dialects on the island so there is a chance we'd learn Tetun in training and then have to learn something totally different at our site. Wouldn't that be nice? Anyway, here goes nothing:

Ida

Rua

Tolu

Hat

Lima

Nen

Hitu

Ualu

Sia

Sanulu

Impressive, huh? I did it without looking in the book, too. We are going to spend an hour or so each day learning the language from our Tetun phrasebook. It's fun.

So, it's May now and in two short months and 5 days we will be heading to East Timor. We have decided that since June is going to be largely a vacation month, we will be wrapping up all loose ties by June 10. We leave for Oklahoma and Lake Teniller on June 11. Things to do this month include getting power of attorney established, writing a living will (?), packing packing packing, investing some money, selling cars, and selling computers. Thankfully we have very little obligation to do other things right now. I am working a few hours a day, and Travis is not working at all.

Since June will be a vacation month, we plan to move back into the Leger house at the end of May. It will be a change, since we're married now, but we did it for over a year before so what the hell. It'll save us a lot of money. I hope they let us.

I need to fold laundry. How about some comments, people??