Friday, July 25, 2014

We'll have the fried hillbilly please!

After two weeks of lessons we were feeling a little more comfortable with our Spanish skills, so after a busy day running errands we decided to stop in a small take-out shop and order some fried chicken to go.  Upon asking for the "pollo frit" Ken was little non-plussed when the clerk looked at him and enquired "Are you speaking Spanish?"  "I'm trying" says Ken.  When we told this storey to Illyana, our Spanish teacher, she laughed and laughed.  We had forgotten that the  double "ll" is pronounced like a "j" in Spanish (or a "y", but that's the lazy way according to Illyana), we should have asked for the "po-jo".  A "polo" is Spanish for hillbilly! Oops.

Tonight's visitors - a family of toucons -




 

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