The top of my to do list today told me to go to the market
and get lemongrass for making dinner tonight. Not a usual thing for us, but
this morning I went to supermarket get the lemongrass and they were out, and a woman who
worked there told me they usually have it but were out just now. I
decided since I had the time, I’d go downtown and go to the Asian market as
they would surely have some.
When I went in the Asian market there were about a dozen customers and a few
employees, all of them Asian and all the signage was in Chinese. I had to come
to grips with the startling fact that I had no idea what lemongrass looked
like! In the supermarket the signage was in English so I wasn’t worried but now I had no idea what anything said.
The employees seemed to be conversing in Chinese, but I did
my best to try and explain my situation, and was stared at until I said
lemongrass. The woman I was speaking to ran and showed
me where the lemongrass was, and of course, what it was!
For my $1 I had a meaningful and purposeful learning
experience.
