Day 22: The German Girl and Her Languages

So we are in Granada for an extra week now. The only problem so far is the German Girl, who lives in the broken down modernized type villa thing we are staying in. Today we spent another day with her on the sunny roof, doing things like crossword puzzles and Sudoku.

Here is the main problem with the German Girl: she speaks a billion languages.*

We found this out when we went to breakfast with her, which involved the strongest coffee Lara ever had in her life and the common Spanish breakfast dish of toasted bread, olive oil, and chopped tomatoes. As a breakfast dessert there were churros (but without sugar on top like in Mexico) and hot chocolate so thick it is like pudding. As an aside, in cafes in Granada people all throw their napkins on the floor because it is easier to sweep them up that way.

Here are the languages the German Girl knows:

English
German
Spanish
French
Swedish
Finnish
Russian

As a caveat, with Russian she says annoying things like, "I wouldn´t say I SPEAK it, I mean I have just studied for 40 years. Ha Ha Ha." But we all know she is fluent. What a crap meannie.

* (The alternate problem is that she is younger than Claire and already married, but this is only a problem to Claire, who is jealous. Lara is the opposite of jealous and feels very glad to not be married until she is 50.)

1 comment:

Claire and Lara said...

lara and i just found this out of control anger and want to alert everyone to the fact that:

a. we are laughing hard
b. it is fun to watch people fight who don't know each other especially when the basis of the fight is this horrendous "denny's voice" incident which was really really non-berkeley offensive and that i can hardly remember i am so ashamed (of you, lana).
c. that polish girl had lived on a farm in iowa learning english for 6 months, remember?

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