Lost in translation (and gestures!)

When I was in fourth year high school, we had an English teacher who relates a story of Oddesey with gestures and facial expressions that made us help to understand and also not to fall asleep. Our English class starts at about 1.30PM a siesta time ;) For me, he was a great English teacher I ever had. I enjoyed the story very well, and I enjoyed how he described in detail that sometimes drove us to 'yell'.

Here at work, people are talking with 'hands'. Even talking over the telephone, the hands are moving with the lips and to complete the opera, some are walking back and forth. Honestly, it makes me dizzy. I believe that they use (unnoticingly) their hands to express themselves clearly. My boss explains technical matters with gestures, and draws or writes on the paper for me to understand. The gestures make me understand more. But NOT all the time. There are times I am 'carried away' with gestures rather than the spoken words. I concentrate more on the moving hands. I become 'deaf', I am concentrated with the gestures itself that I understand in other way, not what the person is trying to convey. And there are times that I use gestures that do not 'speak' of anything..hehehe.. Just imagine my spoken words contradict my gestures or vice versa. At this point, I cannot explain technical matters clearly. I am lost! And so they are lost too.

For me to verify if I got the message clearly, I summarize in my simple (vocabulary) words what I've heard and seen to the person whom I conversed with. And I ask the latter if that what he meant :)