WOW! DID YOU KNOW?

That those annoying people with the unfortunate jobs of accosting you on the street to ask you to donate money RIGHT NOW to their organization which needs the money RIGHT NOW and is better than those OTHER organizations that ALSO hire people to accost you for money RIGHT NOW.. especially outside of Gelman when all you want to do is study and get good grades and use the little money you have as a college student to feed yourself and maybe make a one time donation online to the organization of your choice so you don't have to talk to people that make you feel bad about not donating more...

WELL THOSE PEOPLE EXIST IN SPAIN TOO! I DIDNT ESCAPE THEM! YAY! WOW! Good thing I can use the excuse that I have no clue what they're saying (even though I probably do)... thanks, English!


Also, Sevilla - we get it. You know how to rain. Can you cut it out now please? I'm tryna go to Morocco and NOT be wet all de time!

One funny thing that happened yesterday in Psych class - we had a guest speaker, who is basically the boss of our professor at his other job.. They do research together and the guest speaker was the guy in charge of the investigaciones. And he's this expert on Adquisition of Second Languages, and was talking about how sometimes in our language, we say one thing but actually MEAN another. Like for example, if you say on the phone 'Is your dad there?' it's just because you're just wondering if he is in the house, it's because you'd like to talk to him! Or if someone says 'Wow.. it's really cold.. Are you guys cold? I'm cold!' It's because they want you to close the window!

So he made this example, and he was like maybe you Americans won't understand this, but whenever an Andalusian wife says to her husband 'Wow... it's such a beautiful day outside! There's not another day like this! Wow!' ... What do they mean?

And I was thinking ummm.. does she just wanna go take a walk? But he made it sound like we'd have no idea, so I didn't say anything.

SO THEN HE LOOKS AT FRANK, and is like 'Do you wanna tell them?' And Frank starts to smile and looks kinda awkward and says 'Pues.. se dice cuando la mujer.. quiere que.. tener.. sexo..'

BUT THIS IS NOT THE FUNNY PART.

THE FUNNY PART IS THAT FRANK WAS COMPLETELY WRONG AND HIS MIND WAS IN THE GUTTER. So everyone starts laughing at Frank's answer, but then THE GUEST SPEAKER IS LIKE 'NOOOO NOOOOOO!' and his reaction is humongous, and then when we realize that that's NOT correct, it's making everything even funnier.... like WHERE IS FRANK'S HEAD?

And then it turns out it means that the wife just wants to go out for a walk. I WIN.

hehehe. Then he asked us what some Americans might say if they wanted to 'tener sexo' without explicitly saying it. And everyone was like, it's either 'Hey, you wanna get out of here?' OR EVEN BETTER, after a date, 'Do you wanna come up for coffee?'

HEH FRANK.