The sheep

I went to visit a friend the other day. Her whole family speaks English so we hold the majority of our conversations in English b/c it's just easier that way. For lunch we had sheep neck. It was...tasty. After lunch we sat and talked for a while, then we played the Arabic game. It seems like everyone knows this game. It works like this: they point to random things in the room and then expect me to quickly reply with the word in Arabic. Not a single visit goes by without us playing some form of this game.

So they point to the fan, the table, the bed, etc. and I get them all correct. Then they ask 'say the kharouf' (kharouf is sheep in Arabic). So I say 'kharouf'. They looked a little confused and said 'no, say the kharouf' and so I say 'kharouf' and then the girl says 'no, the kharouf' and so I say 'baaaa?' and she says, 'no, the alphabet'. 'Ohhhh, karouf, not kharouf'. That little h makes a pretty big difference. Guess I was a little too focused on keeping that kharouf neck down that I didn't hear the little h and ended up making a fool out of myself. They got a pretty big laugh out of the white girl making farm animal noises and me, well, I have to laugh at myself, otherwise I'd go crazy.