Practical Spanish

Well, classes are in full swing now and the homework and quizes are piling up. Before I get going on some of that stuff, I had to share with you the oddest experience I´ve had here so far.

First, let me set the scene a bit. There are about 30 Americans staying at the University dorm (which is really more like a hotel) and the other half are Spanish students. The groups are a bit segregated, but between the 60 or so of us in the dorm we all reconginze each other, etc. Well, the other night a few of us girls were in my friend Katie´s room hanging out and chatting when she got a call on her room phone. The man said it was the front desk and asked her to stop smoking. She did her best to explain in Spanish that this was an American room and that we don´t smoke, nor were there candles or anything of the sort. However, he kept asking to stop producing smoke in the room and finally settled with her opening a window. By now, the rest of us thought she HAD to have mis-translated something because this story was making no sense. Either way, we opened a window and forgot about it.

Well, later that night after we all were back in our own rooms and Katie was asleep, a Spanish student came to the door, knocked , and greeted a Katie with an odd surprise. He was standing in the doorway with a sign reading ¨Por favor, stop smoking¨ and was wearing a George W Bush facemask! Can you imagine? He didn´t say anything and just walked away. None of us know what this means, but it´s pretty odd either way. Thought I´d share that rondom bit before this studying.
And as our prof. pointed out, we´re thinking of you all back at home on this Sept. 11th! sense.