Feb 17th – Day of Spain Family Time

Today I woke up and was glad that I was there. When I came down to have lunch Ana asked how my trip was and I told her very good. It was then that I asked her about all the oranges I saw in Granada…she first asked if I tried to eat them, which I said no, a sigh of relief from Ana. She said that the oranges, they aren’t poisonous but that they are very bad tasting and solely for usage in cooking and not for eating. Good thing, I was tempted to since I do like oranges and they looked like Clementines. Then I went up towards my room but not before I saw Adrian who was dressed up like a pirate (drawn on beard and all) with a new playmate over. Her name was Allison and she was Ecuadorian and about 5 years old. It seemed I was replaced for the time being so I went to my room to hang and watch a movie (Shrek). Obviously no one could replace his big playmate as he and Allison came to investigate me more soon after. They found that the stairs in my room and the huge crawl space where I put my luggage were like a new playground and were soon running like mad through it. They were funny to watch and made sure I didn’t miss anything by saying ‘Lela, are you watching? or, Lela Look!’ Then Allison seeing a fellow new playmate came to see what I was doing on my laptop. I was watching Shrek and she started to watch too asking what was happening since it was in English and she spoke none. Then Adrian noticed that he was playing alone and had to investigate too. Seemed they liked watching it and me translating. After 10 mins, it seemed like they wanted to actually watch it, so when I made the suggestion to watch it on the tv downstairs, they both yelled ‘Si!!’ and hurried down the stairs. But not before they waited on me to make sure I was coming with right now. Ana and Pepe had fallen asleep watching a movie on tv so I popped the dvd in and started to set it to dub over in Spanish. By then Ana woke up and wanted to watch, Pepe was still asleep, and Allison and Adrian made a little bed on the floor with their blankets and pillows. Once the movie started, Pepe woke up and laughed because he recognized it was Mexican dialect, but he wanted to watch too. Even before Pepe had said it though, the weird thing is that I recognized it too! I guess my Spanish is getting better since I can tell dialects better now! I used to only know that the person was speaking Spanish but now I can start to tell what dialect it is or at least the region. Weird! Then there was a part in the movie where in English, the donkey says ‘in the morning, I’m making waffles!’ well in the dubbed version he says ‘and in the morning, I’m making tamales!’ Ana, Pepe and I started laughing just because it was a regional dialect difference where as in Spain, they would say that he was going to make chorizo or churros or paella. Funny. After the movie was over, Adrian and Allison were dancing to the music from the credits and had a little dance party. Weird how in a different culture, little kids know the dance of their culture even though they aren’t old enough to understand it yet. While Adrian pretended to play the instruments in the music, Allison was dancing a little of flamenco! Then a little salsa and her footwork was at moments reminiscent of pasadoble. She was only 5 and already knew light-years more than I did, and already knew that hip and butt movements were very essential for the girl. Weird huh?! After dinner I was in a better mood and went to sleep early.