We laughed very hard at a mistake Dean made yesterday in our language lesson; I still get the giggles when I think of it. He was trying to tell our teacher that I cut his hair this past weekend. Since many of the words are similar between Chishona (which we learned in Zimbabwe) and Chichewa (the official language of Malawi), he decided to use the Chishona word for hair. Our teacher had a funny look on her face and said “Why is he telling me this?” After he explained in English what he was trying to say in Chichewa, she patiently taught us the three words Chichewa has for hair: tsitsi (hair on your head), cheya (hair on your arms and legs), and bvuzi (pubic hair, the word that Dean used). That explained her reaction! We had a good laugh and learned a valuable lesson about hair in Chichewa.