learning a language is like playing charades

so i wandered down from the fiesta the other night to check on my laundry and decompress..the woman who owns the house, Alicia, and her sister were down there and asked me why i wasnt at the party with the other kids...i told them i just needed to escape for a minute..then they asked how exactly i do my hair in this manner. I tried to explain about having curly hair and how twisting your hair locks it,using lots of physical demonstration. they asked how i wash it and i told them in the normal way but with more shampoo. i started to explain that i sometimes use beeswax on the ends to hold together the baby dreads...my referring to my little ones as niños cracked them up..but i realized that i didnt know how to say beeswax..and i couldnt even remember bee...so i began a rather roundabout manner of describing beeswax...i said there is a creature who makes honey, and they said abeja..(sounds like,rhymes with) then i said there is a small light which you have to put the fire, this one stumped them for a while, i tried to come up with other ways to describe candles, named a few places one might find them...finally they got candle..so then i said, the same thing the candle is made of when its made by a bee.....and found my way to beeswax..good thing for me im good at charades