spring break blog

So since we can write about “whatever the hell we want and vent” I shall.  First off  already hated the book because it is sooo long. Second I had to read 88 pages with ridiculously small print on an 8hr flight to panama.  Not fun. I find the book boring too. It’s a boring version of NL. He runs away from his problems and talks to random people.  There isn’t really a plot. Just a guy talking to different people on every page running away from his ex wife or wife.

            So after my rant I will talk about my spring break. I just got back from panama THE COUNTRY last night. Very interesting. No one spoke English and my 3.5 yrs of Spanish didn’t get me very far. I did think about what I specifically commented in class about tourism. And how you said you try to fit in. my family stuck out like a sore thumb. The native guys kept whistling at me because I clearly looked different from the girls of their country. I felt so dumb when I struggled speaking in Spanish.  It was very difficult.  The language and culture barrier was hard and made things interesting. One menu only had Spanish on it. My mom and I thought we ordered chicken and we actually ordered steak.  No one could understand us. My mom ordered a “coca-cola light” at mcdonalds and at first ordered 2 but then wanted 1.  She thought the lady understood but yet we ended up with 2.  At pio pio a nastyyyy version of kfc the lady looked at us like we were retarded. We ordered number “cuatro” and she said they were out in spanish so were order number ocho. We ended up with two number cuatros and 2 ochos. It was my birthday in panama and my mom ATTEMPTED to order me a birthday cake there.  she forgot how to say happy birthday in spanish and only remembered feliz. she then tried to get the smiley face cake but didnt know what to say so she smiled and pointed to her mouth and pretended to blow out candles. they looked at her like she was crazy. finally a woman who spoke english ordered the cake in Spanish for her. wish i would have seen this all happen. My mom said "i went through a lot of trouble to get that cake you better like it" Yea so kinda interesting. The trip was very fun and interesting. Eye opening to see how poor the people lived. But they seemed happy. Their driving was insane. Cutting people off was normal. Speeding tickets were non existent.  It was not your typical vacation but I liked it.

            I will be returning to class tues. thankfully I didn’t get abducted by creepy Panamanians and die of the drinking age of 18. Just kidding my parents were around….