You didn´t think I was going to leave that last post at that did you? Really? How long have you been reading my Blogs? Oh, nooooo, now it´s ‘balance the books’ time.
So I am with Luis in front of a rather large gathering of prospective students that we have just served a couple of glasses [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Of Some Things Human’
August 11, 2009
Me gusta acostarme con mis estudiantes – I Like to Couch My Students
August 11, 2009
¿Tienes tu pene? – Do You Have Your Penis?
No, No! This is not an X rated Blog! This is an honest Blog about the rough and rocky road that one must take in order to learn another´s language.
When I asked Luis this question he whirled around and looked at me with a combination of horror and true confusion. I could see his mouth [...]
July 31, 2009
¿Lo dices en serio? – Are You Serious?
Scene
Joan at her computer, readying the next group of articles. Luis and René (friend and video editor of Viajando en Español) at her back talking as though she weren’t there.
Luis: ¿Como está Paola? ¿Como va su embarazo? (How is Paola? (René´s wife) How is the pregnancy going?)
René: Bien, normal … (good, as would be expected)
Joan: body turned toward [...]
July 28, 2009
Pasión u Obsesión, esa es la pregunta – Passion or Obsession; That is the Question
…the question put to Luis and I by a new friend and fellow Spanish language enthusiast. Well, the complete question went something like, “What is the difference between having passion for something and being obsessed by something?”
It was a question posed innocently enough, over dinner, the four of us present; she, her husband, Luis and me. But appearances are sometimes crafted [...]
July 17, 2009
¡Vayase! – Get Outta here! parte II
43 days later - Buenos Aires - departamento que da a la calle, el 3 piso, con balcón (mi eleccion de modo que fue posible ver todo el mundo desde mi dormitorio)
Luis is already in the throws of “fining tune”, (that´s “fine tuning” en inglés) MY well thought out choices for my VERY OWN SOLO experience here in Buenos Aires. ”Honey, are you sure you [...]
July 16, 2009
Y entonces él empezó a llorar – And Then He Began to Cry
My comment was innocent enough, meant really just to break the tension; “No has tenido mucha suerte con las mujeres, ¿Eh?” “You haven’t had much luck with the ladies?”
He looked away from me then, his eyes searching something invisible to me in his perifery. An ironic chuckle escaped which betrayed just enough emotion to cause a breach in his battle [...]
July 12, 2009
¡PELIGRO! Aprender español va a cambiar tu vida – Danger! Learning Spanish Is Going to Change Your Life
Many of you know from previous posts that Luis and I could not hail from more opposite extremes of cultural tradition. My very German upbringing and his Latino has been the fodder for more color in our lives together than one could hallucinate after a few Pisco Sours. (actually, any descriptor that occurred to you before you actually read my artfully selected choice, ”color”, would [...]
July 8, 2009
Cuando los ánimos se intensifiquen – When Emotions Become Intense
Remember the 50’s show “I Love Lucy”? Remember how Ricky, from Cuba, would begin to rapid fire Spanish every time he got a little hot under the collar? Of course the joke was that his Latin blood had predisposed him to go from 0 to 100 in a micro-second but old stereotypes and Lucy´s extraordinary perturbations aside, the [...]
July 5, 2009
“Sólo nos queda pedirles que oren por nostros” – “I Only Ask that You All Pray for Us”
This is the way Álvaro, our author from Honduras, signed off on his note to me this morning. I had been watching the news yesterday and saw how violent things continued in that country due to the recent “golpe de estado” that had occurred the week before, and wrote him a quick note indicating that he and [...]
June 29, 2009
Yo recibí este mensaje esta mañana desde Honduras – el golpe en primera persona
Hola Joan les quiero que tengas algnas fotos que tome hoy Domingo 28 jun de la crisis a raiz del Golpe de Estado y apresamiento del presidente en mi pais aver que les parecen…
Todas tomadas en Tegucigalpa, la Capital, en el frente de la CasaPresidencial, tengo la historia si la queres,me avisas…
Atentamente
Alvaro Morales Molina
Periodista
Alvaro sent 4 fotos that he [...]
