Will Wonders Never Cease
I bought Kristin a present at a mall here, and they had a promotion that granted me a number of raffle-type lottery tickets. There were two Audis, a couple vacation packages, twenty-five televisions, and fifty cell phones.
I found out today I won a cell phone!
In cruel linguistic irony, the information desk girl’s repeat attempts to say “We’ll call you” sounded a lot to me like “We’ll pick up the telephone.” I was expecting a handover on the spot, but I’m left to wait in anticipation.
We repeated this dance a few times before I realized she was saying “arayacak” not “alacak” (“will call” versus “will take/receive”). Verbs are tough here.
It’s an LG Cookie. I’m going off a 1cm picture, but it looks to be a new model.
Seems like an iPhone equivalent sans 802.11. It has a touchscreen, and I can plug a 16GB SD card in to make it an iPod Touch. Between the Nokia candybar I got Kristin and this, I’m afraid fate is blasting me toward a data contract when we get back to the States.