December 2009
5 posts
My Spanish-English dictionary has words like...
I was walking with my computer on my back, which I’d been told I wasn’t supposed to do. I was downtown in the hurried narrow streets weaving through the vendors’ tiny stalls, trying to understand their mumbled questions and declarations without seeming interested enough to engage in conversation. I needed to buy a pot with a lid so I could boil some rice for dinner and so I could break the 500...
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Jenny and I live in a small apartment above a pulperia. Words in Spanish are spelled phonetically. The proprietress of the little shop is called Iris and when someone wants her attention, to buy a bottle of Pepsi or a box of cake mix they yell “Eeeeeereeeeees” from the street and when she wants my attention she stands in the road looking up at our balcony and yells “Eeeemeeeleeee” and then asks...
