Ich Heike...ich heiße...What?!?!?

Shortly after we landed in Germany, we learned a new simple phrase. "Ich heisse ..." So "My name is..." Wow, what progress. That Sunday we went to church thinking we were ready for anything. We knew how to say What's up in German and my name is... What more could we need? We get to the door. The greeter knew we were the Americans so she greeted us with "Ich Heike..." And we looked at her waiting for her to finish the sentence with her name. So she kept saying it. Ich Heike..." And we kept waiting for her to finish the sentence. This went on for a short eternity before we all gave up and went into the sanctuary. We were confused, she was frustrated. After church we asked someone what that ladies name was. Apparently her name was Heike, not heisse. She was trying to make it simpler for us by just saying "I Heike"

For the six months that we lived in that went to that church all of our conversations with her went about that way.