Monday, September 7, 2009

Worst language slip-up thus far.

So I'm in the car picking up my brother and dropping off my aunt with my mom and my mom is excitedly telling my brother that I learned to cueca and salsa tonight at this nearby high school for free. She jokes with him that he should go (her and I both knowing he doesn't like to and cannot dance) and I say "SI ven conmigo! Necesito un pa, par, paja...ro?" Well I was TRYING to say I need a dance partner (pareja), but everyone in the car just BURSTS out laughing.
So I'm flustered I said something embarrassing and I can't speak Spanish so in English I'm like "What did I say? WHat happened?!"
Well after Vlado manages to catch his breath he told me I just said that I needed to jerk-off. Isn't that wonderful. I don't think they stopped laughing for about ten minutes. The funny thing is, I'm telling all sorts of people on skype this story and I keep forgetting the word for partner but remembering the word for jerk-off. This might get me in trouble, hahahaha.

Wellllllll
before THAT whole ordeal I was at a local high school learning the CUECA! Check it out! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueca) And I got a refresher on the salsa too. Dang I love latin american dances! Anyway the cueca is the national dance of Chile and its really complicated, but super fun, I'm so glad I'm starting to learn it. This class we went to is free every Monday and Thursday and the school is just a 5 minute walk from my house! I went with Trevor, Karl, Adrianne, Brenna, Al, and Jess. I was the odd one out so I didn't get to dance with any of them but it was still super fun. It was only about an hour or so. The instructor was male and suuuper nice and veeerry good at dancing obviously. I always love dancing with the instructors, they make me look good.

Well I had class with Ostria (big bushy white eyebrows guy) today and it gets better each class period. I can understand more and more, plus, I just found out he publishes his notes on our website. SCORE!

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