Tonight was our first dinner without any help ordering food. A group of us decided to just walk around and find a place to go. We ended up sitting down at a restaurant by campus before we even looked at the menu. We were handed the menu and while flipping through it we noticed no English and no pictures even. We contemplated getting up and heading to a different restaurant with a menu with pictures where we could just point at what we wanted. We ended up staying not only because they had already set out all of our dishes and felt bad, but because we decided to challenge ourselves. Erik had a piece of paper with "chicken, beef, lamb" written out so we used that and gave it to our server. It was still hard to tell her exactly what we wanted and how much, but we managed to do it. We ordered 4 dishes that were all pretty good. We later wanted rice so I actually got up out of my chair and went over and pointed to some rice that was sitting out. Paying for the bill was kind of difficult too. Despite the difficulty communicating with the servers, we were all very happy we decided to stop at that restaurant. It was a great experience to learn and challenge ourselves!
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