Help!!

What do you do if you need a plumber and you have to explain in very poor English what the problem is?!

First of all you have to know that what/who you need is called a “plumber”. Managing phone calls is very difficult at the beginning anyway, and even more if you have to describe to a very impassionate man on the other end that the toilets are plugged. He finally arrived and charged me $300 for 15 minutes work, because the toilets were on two different level. Otherwise it would be just $150. Since then we have always had a snake in the house. No, not the slithering kind…

I felt similar helplessness visiting the pediatrician office with Jakob for the very first time.

He needed to do his check-up before starting school. They tested his vision, so he had to say what he saw in the picture. But how? He did not speak English. So I tried to translate everything as good as I could, knowing that we should not make any mistake. Visiting offices and doctors was not easy. The only thing what helped sometimes was a good portion of humour…and just using my hands.