Happy Valentines! I hope that you had a great weekend! I made a deal with my son Gavin this Valentines. We both like white chocolate, and I am married to a strict orthodox chocolatarian, so white chocolate is not allowed in the house. You could be banished for having that stuff! Haha. Just kidding. But I do think my wife might shame us a bit for liking white chocolate.
So about today’s episode! I revisit a blog post of mine from May 10, 2019. I talked about an experience I had when we lived in Europe and the Lord’s Answer to ending world hunger.
So without any further delay,
- So, Let’s get to it!
My wife and I had the opportunity to live in Holland and England for a couple years.
- While working in Europe, I was invited to attend a trade show in Germany where many representatives from the company would attend.
- My English and French language was needed and my expertise on our line of cables was also required.
- (Yes, there are people in the world who possess an incredible amount of boring knowledge about cables).
- During the show one day, I was having lunch with a co-worker from Greece.
- We staggered our lunch breaks so that we had enough coverage at the booth.
- We were in Germany at a trade show where they served the most amazing bratwurst I’ve ever eaten. Yes. At the trade show. They were so good…. They were perfectly cooked with the perfect freshest bun, which was almost more like a baguette with just the right amount of crunch… but I digress.
- As I mentioned, the multi-national company that I was working for had sent representatives from all over Europe so that we would have many languages available at our booth for customer meetings and questions.
- The amazing thing was that they all spoke English fairly well and so we communicated in English mostly, except for a French man who was there and was very relieved when he found out that I spoke French. “Oh quel bonheur de trouver quelqu’un qui parle français!”
- This particular co-worker from Greece had noticed that I did not drink alcohol in the evenings when the company would go out to dinner. I even passed on the coffee that was brought at the end of dinner.
- She wanted to know why I didn’t drink.
- I explained that it was a religions belief which surprised her and sparked a ton of questions.
- She told me that it was a very unique practice in her eyes, one of which she had never heard of before.
- Tune in for the rest of the show!
