So I had this awesome long blog with my whole life story written yesterday. Then the computer
I was using died and I did not back up my file like a good little former computer worker. So I get the stupid-gringa award today.
So you are getting an abbreviated version that only includes some of my favorite DAILY host family conversations¨:
BREAKFAST
¨Rebecca, are you ready for breakfast?¨
¨Yes, but not a lot please.¨
(My host mom then puts 6 pieces of toast on the table for me. She has given herself 2. I proceed to eat 2 and stare at the rest.)
¨Not very hungry today?¨
¨No, I don´t really like to eat breakfast.¨
¨Yeah, it´s hard to eat breakfast when it is hot.¨
¨Well, it´s not the heat. I just have never eat much breakfast.¨
¨Yeah, when you´re hot breakfast isn´t that good.¨
¨Yeah, it´s not really the heat. I just don´t like breakfast. My brother is the same way. All our lives we haven ´t like breakfast.¨
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(Repeat this conversation daily with every manner of breakfast food.)
COFFEE
¨Rebecca, would you like some coffee?¨
¨Yes please, but I prefer my coffee black.¨
Ökay, so not much sugar.¨
¨No, without sugar, I prefer it black.¨
¨Milk then?¨
¨No, just black please. No milk. no sugar.¨
(She then proceeds to put two heaping teaspoons of sugar in my coffee.)
¨Just a little then. I know you prefer your coffee black.¨
¨Thanks, Irma.¨
(Repeat this converstation with every cup of coffee.)
WATER
¨What would you like to drink for dinner? Coffee? Juice?¨
¨Just water for me, please.¨
¨Just water???¨ (she asks with a completely bewildered look on her face… Keep in mind it is 100 degrees and I have been surveying for 5 hours)
¨Yeah, it´s really hot outside.¨
¨The food tastes better with soda or juice.¨
¨Yeah, but i´m really hot. Just water for me please.¨
(She then pours me a glass of water with a completely confused and concerned face. Repeat this conversation every meal.)
HEAT
¨QUE COLOR!¨ (This means HOW HOT. I just want to say REALLY??!?! Is it hot? I hadn´t noticed! I´ve been sweating for 3 weeks solid! Is it hot?!?!?!)
They think I am SO WEIRD!
Becky,
Easy to remember geek fact: 37 celsius, or centigrade is equal to body temperature, or 98.6F.
So if it is above 37C it is hot! Keep the comments coming, this is the funniest writing I’ve seen in a while, anywhere!!
Wendell
I had similar conversations with my Spanish host mom about being a vegetarian (“oh, you don’t eat meat? OK” – as she picked the pieces of chicken out of the chicken soup…), but what strikes me most about this post is that YOU’RE SAYING ALL THIS IN SPANISH?!?!!? You go girl!
Katie says, don’t try to understand. There is no understanding. Kinda like the Stetson professors dating scene, there is no way you will ever get it. Just roll with it! So when Katie was dating a Colombian guy, every so often his mom would push her into this chair and he would flip out. Years later she discovered that there is a superstition that the next woman to sit in the chair used by a preggers woman will herself get preggers. Just smile and nod… OH AND SEND ME YOUR ADDRESS SO I CAN SEND YOU STUFF!!!!!