here I am, sitting home with a stomack flu. Atleast it gives my a chance to share some fun stories with you>)
for explanation: we need to demonstarte the books to 30 families every day, we do that by knocking on doors and some people slam the door before you can actually even show the books. Ou and when we approach, we want to get inside the house to sit down with the family.
and just so you understand how hard it actually is - on the 4th of July I worked 15hours to get my 30 demonstations!
1.Dad on the door: "I don't get it, you came all the way here to do this?!?! don't you have jobs in Europe?"
me: we do, but I just wanted to do sth challanging this summer...
D: ineteresting, you know what - take this (hand me a tennis ball) take this as a suevenir and the next time you want to do sth challanging go play tennis!
2. Me: I am a college student from Europe
Mr Jones: no you're not, you are just saying that so people won't think of you like another sales person.
me: actually i really am from europe, i am from estonia, do you know this place?
mr jones: and now you just made up a country, how come you don't have an accent, I don't believe you!!!
me: I can prove it! (showed my estonian ID card and got into the house:))
3. Have you heard about the verdict?
me: eem what verdict...
the Casey Anthony case, it is the biggest trial in America at the moment, don't you watch the TV????
me: eem actually no I don't, I work 13h a day 6 days a week.
*suprised facial expressions and noises*
you europeans are crazy, come on in I will show you what a TV is!
4. in the house
Mrs Jones: ou you are selling them?!?! no we don't buy anything door-to-door. didn't you see the no soliciting sign? I thought you were writing an article about how crapy the school system in US is. you know it really sucks here! (followed by a 5 minute monologue on how everything is so bad in the US school system)
5. I ring the doorbell, the dad comes to the door, I can hear dogs running...
Mr Jones: here comes killer, and here's tiger, ou watch out here comes the tornado, you would better run!
*the dogs come and greet me being very friendly*
mr Jones: wow, you're the 1st salesperson with no blood all over, usually they kill them all. you must really have a way with dogs
me: yeah dogs like me (we both laugh, dogs are still very enthusiastic about me)
mr jones: seems so, so what you got?
and I got into the house<)
6. in the house, mom really likes the books. I tell her the prize she crabs my hand gently, looks into my eyes and says: Honey you know I spent 2000 $ on clothes and shoes yesterday. i haven't told my husband yet, I think he is going to kill me! They are really good books and I would love to buy tham, but I really can't"
7. in the house, showing 7th grade math section to a mom who home-schools two teenage sons.
Mom: ou this is way to advanced for them, they are going to be misionaries, they just need to know how to read and the basic math consepts. serving God doesn't require this high of an education.
8. in the house, showing SAT prep CDs to a mom who has a teenage son.
Son comes from his bedroom shirtless, obviously just woke up.
mom: Josh, come here and take a look, if it is sth you would use?
son comes closer: yawns and says, probably, do whatever you want
me trying to connect as we are supposed to do: did you have a rough night?
the son smiles and says: you could say that, summertime you know...
we both realize how badly that sounded and start laughing, the mom looks at us suspiciously.
mom: so Josh we were talking about getting you into the college...
I find it hard to concentrate after that (ou and I forgat to mention that the son looked soooooo hotttttttttt)
Well these are just some of the stories, the fun ones I wanted to share. Theres different stories aswell, but I won't share the negative ones. at least not here.
hope you all are having a great summer and don't forget me!
write to me every now and them, and could you please do it in estonian, I kinda am already forgetting my native language!
miss you all!
