Redeeming myself with the butcher/bread lady
In my sickness haze I had to stop and get bread so I went to our local bread shop and the woman in there was the lady from the butcher. The butcher and breadshop are connected although only in the backrooms so from the store fronts they are two different stores. I wasn't surprised to see the butcher lady in the bread store as I have seen her there before (a minute after I had seen her in the butcher). In any event I have built up my repoire with the butcher/bread ladies and have felt myself being slowly accepted into the community. I felt that they grew to respect me with my attempts at speaking Czech and my continued improvement. In any event, I stopped in to get bread in my sickness haze and she told me the amount in Czech since they don't treat me any different than anyone else anymore. In my haze I messed up the amount and she shook her head at me in dissappointment. I know it may seem wierd but I was bummed out that I had failed the butcher/bread lady. I went back in today to pick up bread even though I didn't really need it just so I could redeem myself. The same lady was there and she told me the amount and I pulled out my change to count it out and she just started counting it for me (in a nice way) but I said "i can" in czech and we laughed and I told her I'm studying Czech (of course I said that in Czech) and all was right with the world. She gave the kids free bread rolls and after I had the kids say thankyou in Czech she actually said a broken thankyou in English. She has never tried to speak any English to me before it was quite a break though.
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