Hola, All! Today I signed up for a free cooking class at the school. It was really nice because there were only 5 of us students and 1 cook. As we were talking to each other in English, the cook told us to practice our Spanish instead. Even in the kitchen they want us speaking espanol! The first thing she asked us was if there were any vegetarians. Since I could see the hamburger meat, I raised my hand. I also told her that I could not eat cheese or food made with milk. Then she told us that we would be preparing salad, meatballs, potatoes and making homemade tortillas. We were really cute because we all had to wear hairnets. I was in charge of cutting the cucumbers, and mixing the flour and water by hand to make the tortilla dough. I had both my hands in it up to my wrists. Then we rolled the dough into circles for another student to cook the tortillas. Only later did I realize that one of my acrylic nails had come off in the dough!! Someone sure got a surprise in their tortilla!
Yesterday I realized that I have been amiss in teaching you some Spanish words. So, I thought I would teach you how to pronounce my mama-tico´s name. Virginia is pronounced: Ber hen e a (with the ´e´ being a long sound). Something else you might be interested in is the word ´tico´.....this is the name for the native people of Costa Rica.
Love you, chao for now!
Dawnie
I bet someone loved the fact that your fingernail was in the tortillas!! Haha!
ReplyDeleteHow funny about the nail! So glad you were able to have the lesson - everything you are doing sounds like such great fun! What a wonderful experience you are having - can't wait till we all get together and you can tell us even more details!
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