Heritage House B&B Blog

Is that Le or La?

If you smile at me, I will understand.  'Cause that is something everybody, everywhere does in the same language.               Wooden Ships, by David Crosby, Paul Kantner & Stephen Stills

 

I love the opening line to this CSN song and I have thought of it several times recently while hosting international guests at the Heritage House B&B.  Gary has retained a bit of Spanish, having taken several years of the subject in the New York school system.  Plus, he reminds me, he is also somewhat fluent in Pig Latin!  I, on the other hand, have retained minimal & rudimentary high school French.  Pourriez-vous pour un peu de crème avec le café?  (or is it la café?) 

So, when hosting guests with whom English is a second language, we all rely on smiles and hand gestures . . . because that is something everybody, everywhere does in the same language. 

Heritage House B&B "Gently Used" Guest Soaps Continue to Help Clean Haiti

Gary & I are so incredibly proud to be a part of Clean the World's continuing efforts in Haiti.  Periodically, we mail our guests' gently used soaps down to Orlando where their unique sterilization process melts & mixes the soaps, which are then reshaped into soap bars to be distributed. 

Clean the World’s recent visits to Haiti have brought nearly 260,000 bars of soap to villages, schools, orphanages, medical clinics and tent cities there. Children from broken homes, many still nursing injuries and disease from the earthquake and recent cholera outbreak, are eager to receive more soap and supplies to help turn their lives around. 

Read more about Clean the World's Efforts:

http://blog.cleantheworld.org/2011/03/haiti-update-clean-hands-proper-hygiene.html