Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The language fun continues

Overheard at Albergue while some of the girls and I were doing laundry:

"...When the Señorita Emily arrived here, oh man, her Spanish was so FUNNY! She couldn't understand ANYTHING! And we couldn't understand anything she said, either."

(Great.)

"Since she couldn't really talk to us, she would just dance crazy all the time to make us laugh."

(What! They caught on to my strategy?! All this time I thought I was being so subtle...)

"...Whenever she wanted to ask us something, she would have to go through the Señorita Danae"
(who GREW UP HERE as a missionary kid, which gave her a completely unfair advantage at being awesome at Spanish) "and Danae would translate to us, and then we'd talk to her and she'd translate back to Emily. Her Spanish was just SO FUNNY-"

"Gabi!"

"Sí, Emily?"

"You know I SPEAK SPANISH NOW, right? I can hear what you're saying."

"Oh, don't worry, Emily. Your Spanish is MUCH better now."

"Good. So it's not funny anymore?"

(Pause)

"Um... well, we can understand you now."

How nice of God, I didn't even pray specifically for humility but here He goes heapin' it on...

3 comments:

April said...

Yeah, speaking Spanish can be pretty embarrassing. The kids I teach at the elementary school put their fingers in their ears and plead, "PLEASE STOP TALKING MS LUNDBERG YOUR ACCENT IS TOO TERRIBLE!"

...You're not alone! :)

Emily said...

Hahaha!

Oh Apar, how great to hear from you!

I find that hard to believe, you are so great at Spanish. But I am encouraged :-) kids will tell it to us honestly...

Hope to see you ASAP when I'm back! Love you!

annika said...

oh I love you emily!

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