It's Maddie and India, preparing for our month-long adventure in Zaragoza, Spain. For almost a year now we have been planning to attend Zaragoza's own Sacred Heart, Sagrado Corazon. We will be spending the first hours of 2010 on a plane traveling 3664 miles away from home. We are prepared to face the inevitable language barrier as Gringas (Americans) in Spain. With the help of six years of Spanish classes and the occasional glance at our Spanish-English dictionaries, we hope to learn and enjoy the people, culture and food of Zaragoza.

Colegio Sagrado Corazon de Jesus: The school we will be attending.

http://www.fsbarat.org/

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Differences part 1

Pienso que es una buena idea para señalar las differencias en cultura entre los españolas y los americanos de estados unidos.
1. Besos: Cada vez cuando encuentras alguien, das besas en las mejillas. el primero tiempo que una persona se inclino para besar mis mejillas me reì por surpresa. Ahora, tengo mas practico y solamente sonrie cuando alguien me besas.

2. Comida: ya sabia que en españa es normal para comer mucho, pero no he preparado para eso. En mi familia cada comida, mi ¨padre¨ ofrece mas y mas comida para comer. Todavia estoy diciendo, ¨no, no, no quiero mas comida, estoy lleno gracia, no gracias¨. Es muy gracioso especialmente porque mi familia esta practicando su ingles y tratan de pregunatame que quiero comer en ingles.

The english version of what I just in a quick sumary was my pointing out some of the differences in the spanish and american (united states) culture. I mentioned the constant kissing of cheeks, between, boys :girls, girls :girls, girl :adult, boy :adult. I stated how the first time maddie and I learned of this popular custom we both held back laughter. After kissing about 45 more cheeks I have become more experienced and only smile very widely.
Another difference was the amount of food that is consumed during meals here. I said how my host father is always offering me more and more food. Its very funny because I am constantly saying, no thankyou, Sorry I´m full, No more to eat please! I will keep blogging the differences because they are fun to point out and read about!

1 comment:

  1. Thanks Indie, have you acutally kissed 45 cheeks, is that 22 people, one person three times or 23 people one person only once? Take care - Dos Besos.

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