Things that amuse me, pt. 2

The shakenod/Sri Lankan wobble

This should’ve been the first one of these “things that amuse me”, but it really annoyed me at first, but now it’s just ridiculously fun. Basically, when you ask someone a question, they very often ‘wobble’ their heads, i.e. left ear to left shoulder and then right ear to right shoulder, no definite time, whatever strikes the shakenodder’s fancy. Sometimes they say “hari hari” which means okay. At first it looks like a shake of the head, so you think they mean ‘no’. But then you remember that Sri Lankans don’t like saying no. So, the whole thing altogether could mean:

• Yes

• No

• Maybe

• I don’t know

• Maybe yes

• Maybe no

• I really don’t know

• Definitely yes

… and so on. At first - very frustrating, as they do that if you ask, e.g:

“left or right?”
*wobble*
“right?”
*wobble*
“left?”
*wobble*
“So what is it then?? Left or right??”
"Hari hari"*wobble*.

At first very frustrating, but I now embrace it and will definitely bring it back to Europe muahha!

Projects: Spent the morning at the elderly center. Very calm as always. Will be allocated to a new afternoon orphanage tomorrow hopefully.