anyway uh
how about you what do you do with your budget
what do i do um at the moment it's utter chaos um
right now i'm just uh i i don't really have a budget per se i'm i uh
it's called living within your means
uh-huh
you know which means at the moment um paying off the Visa bill and keeping everything else under control
and hoping the car doesn't collapse
yeah that's true
um but uh no i don't really have a budget at the moment um
but i have uh i have uh rough feel for how much money i can afford to spend each month and then i don't usually don't exceed that unless i unless the Visa bill gets out of hand for one reason or another like if i have car expenses and then that
that then it goes through the moon so
yeah that sort of a problem
yeah so um
what'd you
we're trying we're trying
to um
so far we are in the clear credit wise but uh the other side of it is
so
not much on that side of it to add to it we're trying to think of how to put away some savings
and stuff like that but
so you can afford to get a house
yeah we'd like to do that some day we have this dream
yes
but we don't know how long it will be a dream
we we're kind of real we're really happy that we don't have any debt
but we're at the same time we're real scared about incurring it in this um
economy right now so we're stepping real careful and trying to see what's the best way to save what the little bit that we do get you know on top of expenses every month
yeah
so what do you and your husband do
we're missionaries actually yeah uh-huh
are you really
and um it will be easier once we get overseas cause we have uh like uh uh support quota
hm
and it's cheaper to live overseas than it is to live here
no kidding
and it doesn't get switched very easily once you come home
i see so overseas where would you be going
so
Africa Nigeria
really
yeah
really how long would you be there
about four years we're career so we we go over seas for four years and then we come back for a year we go over four we come back for a year
with with what church
um we're with Wycliffe Bible Translators
oh yes yes i uh know who they are they um they have an office uh in in Costa Mesa as i recall
so
yeah they could very well and
there there was uh you know there was a fairly large building that that was so um are you uh are you uh active in translation
um we will be i was over over for four years doing language surveying which is the first step you're kind of like the scout that goes ahead of the team and assesses the need and uh
um-hum
came home and got married and we will go back back as translators cause we want to raise a family and it is easier to raise a family
as translators well i always wanted to do translation
but as long as i was single and footloose so to speak it's easier you know they really need surveyors cause you could
you're free to travel anywhere you don't have kids hanging around you and stuff
true enough so um what uh what languages do you speak besides English of course
well i have a smattering of about ten different ones but there's i'm not bilingual in any of them because i kept switching from one area to the other you know since i did
um-hum
you know complete a survey in one area i'd switch to the other so i know the greetings in about ten
and how to do market stuff but in about
um about five i guess i can do better in it and my French is pretty good but it's uh Senegalese French so uh i'm terrified to speak it in um
in France
in France yeah because they're real snobby about their language and Senegalese French is street French and
i just picked it up off the street and i knew what i was i knew what i was communicating but i didn't know what i was saying i never sat there and got a direct translation and
said something here when i came home and French to somebody and he paled and said i'm not going to tell you what you said so
since then i have refrained from speaking any French except in Senegal
um
i don't know what i said to him but uh i didn't ask him either
must have been terrible
the um
was it Henry Macon said that the
the uh language is like a is like a man slowly bleeding to death slowly hemorrhaging to death without new infusions that will eventually die
and i it it just amazes me that the French don't recognize that free style English is just
takes on new
