Saturday, May 5, 2007

Dudes at a Bar (and some chicas too)

I went to a caffe last night with Lucia and some of her friends. I brought my guitar and sang a few tunes (probably too loudly, but i think they liked it anyways).

In this bar there were two dudes from Algeria, one dude from England, and a couple of chicas from Spain. I'd be hard-pressed to find this combination in the States.

Actually, now that I think about it, my little college town in blacksburg is pretty diverse if you look in the right places. Because many grad students are from abroad, on any given night there can be at least a few countries represented in The Cellar. The difference here is that, when they ask me to visit them, it might be a possibility in the coming months. Europe: 27 countries with at LEAST 27 different cultures. Awesome.

I hung out with the two algerian dudes last night (amur, amar) and spoke in slow english. We talked about the deserts of Algeria, different dialects, and connections and disconnections between languages (as they speak algerian, french, and understandable english). It was a good time.

Well, another day is here. It is rainy again, and i am thankful for a reason to stay inside and study conjugations. I will conquer you, italian, if it's the last thing i do! bwahahahahaaaaa, bwahahahahaaaa (evil-sounding laughter).

Baci é abbraci

1 comment:

Dad said...

it took me awhile to figure out the time stamp thing. the time stamp is pacific time. pacific is 9hrs behind italy. so -- a 530am time stamp is 530am pacific, or 830 eastern or 230pm italian.