Not too bad, muy nice

The Spanish men have arrived and they’re awesome. Anna and Anne let them know that I was the one that knew the most Spanish out of all of us, so I have been getting a little practice in with them. Their names are Luis, Juan, and Ruma. The last 2 are brothers. Anna and I have been practicing English with them. For only learning some English in high school, they speak very well. I told Juan that Americans are weird because we don’t have a siesta (relaxation/napping time after lunch). He said, “What is weird?” so I told him in Spanish, but apparently the word is difficult for Spanish people to pronounce. So, Juan has sorta adopted it as one of his favorite words because he wants to practice it. Ruma is a hoot. He knows the least English out of the 3 but he still knows how to make everyone laugh, and he actually speaks English quite well. Luis is the guy that likes to beat Franci at his game. When Franci starts teasing or getting really bossy, we taught the guys to say the Gaelic version of “kiss my @$$” which spelled phonetically is “poag muh hone”. It’s quite funny hearing them, especially Luis, say it to Franci. It’s even better with the Spanish accent.

On a less G-rated note, yesterday at dinner we had to explain to the guys what “penis” was. Long story on how we got to that topic, but Anna tried to explain it in English, and when she couldn’t quite get it, I chimed in with the Spanish I knew, pointed to the area of the body and said “it’s with the cojones (testicles)”. Needless to say they burst out laughing because I happened to know that word. Ruma followed up by mentioning how I asked him for the Spanish word to say breasts. I wanted to know because us girls were riding around in a bouncy tractor. Muy uncomfortable for those things. But anyway, I forgot to mention why I asked, so as far as the guys knew, I just wanted to know dirty words. Therefore, there was another burst of laughter at the table. It was the hardest I laughed in a long time. Cojones y tetas.

With all of that fantastic stuff going on, I almost forgot to mention my injury. Yesterday I jammed my finger between two large rocks. Well, more like a large rock fell on my finger while it was in between another rock. I think my fingernail may fall off and I have a nice gash, but nothing is broken. I did almost pass out, though, when I went to clean it, so Anne has been helping me. Right now I have gause wrapped around my finger. I haven’t seen it since it happened, and I’m terrified to look, because I’m afraid I may vomit or pass out, or both. Guess I can’t complain too much though because it’s my first real injury since I’ve been here.

Last night we went to the pub with the Spanish guys and it was very fun. We talked about movies, politics, dirty words. Good times. Their favorite things to say are “don’t worry”, “it’s ok”, “not too bad” and “muy _______ (something in English)”. They very much enjoy Spanglish.

Ok that’s it I believe. This took me a lot longer to write because of my disabled finger. Muy annoying. Anyhoo, I’ll try to post again soon, with some more colorful news.

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A broad goes abroad. on July 18, 2009 from Coachford, Ireland

from the travel blog: Volunteering in Ireland

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