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MELEE · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:57 pm Post subject:

...you know all the words to every verse of the Ma�anitas.

Prof.Gringo · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject:

When I go back to the US and I start to speak to people in Spanish without realizing that I don't have to think about speaking in Spanish, I can just talk in English.

Wondering why I can't find really good al-pastor within a 4 block radius in the US.

Lamenting the lack of bevarage options at 7-11 or even the supermarket in the US. Here in Mexico, we got it all. Water and juice in every flavor, even soda pop comes in apple etc.

Feeling like a foreigner when I pass through US ICE checkpoints.

leslie · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 235

jmzdiva123 · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 3

You get annoyed when you can�t find the garbage can in the US bathroom to throw away your toilet paper and..

you wonder why all capital letters aren�t in red. Does anyone else�s school do this?

danielita · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 281 Location: SLP

You forget to take your shoes off when you visit people's houses back home.

TheLongWayHome · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 1016 Location: San Luis Piojosi

... someone catches you unaware by arriving on time.

MO39 · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:07 pm Post subject:

GueroPaz · Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Posts: 216 Location: Thailand or Mexico

I don't get it. Do Mexicans remove their shoes at the threshold, like Asians everywhere do? I will remove my shoes by habit if I move from Thailand to Mexico.

When I moved from southernmost Chiapas to Southmost Texas, I found myself using those short expressions in Spanish, even when speaking to monolingual Americans. Stores were tiendas, streets were avenidas, you went around people in the store muttering "con permiso," etc. When a drunken Mexican hotel guest called the front desk on South Padre Island and asked me for condones, I naturally replied, "Si, tengo dos en mi mochilla." Embarassed

MO39 · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:15 am Post subject:

El Gallo · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 318

I didn't figure out that primary schools here have the new writers put the capital letters in red until one day I tried to help my 6 year old student with his English homework. When he got out a red pencil, I insisted that was for his teacher and that he had to do his work in black. After 20 minutes of a crying an pouting standoff, his father arrived and explained the capitol letter rule to me. I immediately apologized to my young student and we have gotten along well since.

If you teach little kids, I hope this saves you and them the same anguish.

Phil_K · Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own

I was singing "Caminos de Guanajuato" in karaoke yesterday, as if I'd known it all my life!

hlamb · Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 431 Location: Canada

Jetgirly · Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 741

El Gallo · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 318

What's up with that? Don't they use capitol letters very much in Spanish?

I've notice the same when my students do their written exercises. They do not want to use capitol letters at all.