...."why?"

We went to the Bank today, and the following conversation took place with one of the Bank workers. Ha. This guy is there every time we are there and he is so funny.

So there are 3 of us and we're sitting in the waiting chairs inside the bank for Jilly and Brianna who are exchanging money at the counter. He walks over to us and says, slowly and in broken English, "Can I help you?" We smiled and nicely told him we were just waiting for our friends. We expected him to just walk away but he didn't. He just lingered, and then he said, "You all are from where?" We replied, "We are from America." and he said, "Oh. You all so beautiful" ha, followed by a cute, sheepish little grin, and of course we said, "oh, xie xie." Then... the funny part, Mikelle asked him, "Do you have an English name?" and he just looked at her for a minute and then said, "Why?" Uhhh... Mikelle: "Well, it is just easier for us to remember English names, do you have one?" and after a long pause and a puzzled expression he said, "... Okay!" haha.

I absolutely love communicating with people here. Even the ones that do speak English, which we are so grateful for... it's fun to interact with them.