Reality TV

If there is not a reality TV show of students in language immersion it should exist. Last night at dinner I could barely contain my laughter as I watched the scene which is now my life unfold. Fortunately I just kept smiling until after dinner and then went upstairs and had a great laugh...
We have dinner at 7 each night. It is the three boys, the mom, my housemate Patty, and me. However, this house is never empty. People just pop in and out constantly. Plus some background info is Patty is the talker because she is more of a risk taker than I am but I understand more than her and half way through her phrases she has to to stop and ask me questions. There have been several times I knew she misunderstood what the others were saying and so I stopped her and explained. Well last ngiht there was just too much going on. So going back this man walks in and tells us he is Sylvia´s (the mom) brother. Patty screams "Happy Birthday" and I instantly geta look from all three boys and I just smile. The man politely tells her his birthday is September 22. She thens goes on and on about everything they family had told us about "his" birthday party the night before. He just politely keeps letting her talk. Sylvia tried to explain to her that it was her female cousin that had a birthday but Patty just kept on going but now changing all of her words to a feminine form because she thought Sylvia was simply correcting her grammar. So essestially she was calling hima woman the rest of the conversation. Then the boys finish their dinner and instantly turn on the TV. Their favorite week night show is re runs of Extreme Home Makeover with Ty Pennigton (spanish subtitles at the bottom of the screen and they read it all). The oldest asked if I watche dit and so we started talking about that. Then Randy Travis came on and he asked if I listened to him. I explained I like that type of music but not necessarily Randy Travis. He told me he knew everyone from Texas liked "Jazz" music. I explained it was "country" not jazz". THEN another man came and we had already met him. His name is Carlos and his son is Pepi (Pepi did not come over last night). Patty immediately tells the man " Hi Pepian!" Everyone started laughing and Sylvia explained to Patty who got it this time. BTW-Pepian is a typical Guatemala dish for lunch or dinner and that is why it is so funny. So much more happened but those are the highlights. When we went upstairs I went in to Patty rooma nd asked her why she did´t just call him beefstew and asked why she kept calling that man a woman. She had no idea so we laughed until we cried. She went down and apologized and everyone just laughed. She is always doing stuff like but I must admit I did something similiar in class today. I thought I was telling my teacher I was lucky to study Spanish instead told her I fall asleep when she speaks spanish.
The father finally made it in from traveling for work so we met him today. He drives shuttles for tour agencies and the mom is a teacher in the mornings.
I thought of more quotes from the Nicaragua trip that can make some interesting stories later....
1. Are you students? (God bless the 25 year old that asked us that)
2. Are you German?
3. Our Swedish friendish friends knows of a great local pizza place in Managua, she thinks it is called "Papa John´s"
4. And finally....Just because we bought a fertility plate, it doesn´t mean we´re having babies, we´re just worried about the crops.
Thanks for the comments and emails. I will get better about responding to them. I´ll try to post soon a little more about the food Amber. It has been so GOOD. The chili relleno is nothing like ours....