Spanish Swear Words

Tuesday February 26, 2008

I can now officially curse in Spanish. Today in class we learned all about the curse words in Spanish, which is actually pretty exciting because now I can tell all of the creepy men off and actually sound serious. We got to talking about these words because in our literature class we are reading a contemporary Spanish novel that is about a female detective who cusses frequently, so instead of being confused with the words we had a huge discussion about what the “bad” words actually meant. Between classes I checked my e-mail and I received Aarons flight information, he is going to be here tomorrow and I can hardly believe it. I can’t believe that I have been in Spain for this long. It seems like it is flying by. At the beginning of the semester the days went by slow and now the days and even weeks fly by.  After school I got a bunch of homework done and then headed to my ONG. We played a lot of pool games to night and it was a fun night. I think one of the children has it out for me because I swear his goal in life is to peg me in the head with a pool toy. He was unsuccessful this week, but I’ll keep you posted on how I am defending my honor. Tonight I packed for Conil, Allison, Sam and I are going to the beach with Aaron tomorrow for 4 nights and 5 days, how amazing. We don’t have class on Thursday because it is “El Dia de Andulusia,” which is considered a holiday. All I know is that we get an extra day at the beach, woohoo! Allison bought the bus tickets to day as well as the sunscreen. Ironically enough, the bus ticket was cheaper than the sun tan lotion. It costs about 15 Euros for one bottle here…and we can get like 23 gallons at Wal-Mart in the US for $3.98, yet another odd cultural difference. I leave you with this final “Spanish phrase of the day” from my host mom, “Dejame en paz.” Which translates into “leave me in peace,” just incase you ever have a creepy Spanish man come onto you, now you know how to combat your aggressor. You’re Welcome.