The more he spoke the more and louder I kept saying I just don’t understand. On my cab drive to the hotel my driver tried to converse with me and I desperately tried to tell him I didn’t understand him. I soon came to realise that there are definitely some internationally universal words. And then there were the locals who saved me by attempting the best version of their English. There were the locals who broke out into fluent Spanish in their response and had me back tracking in English very quickly. I received one of two reactions to my over practiced “Hola”. I felt slightly self-conscious greeting the locals in their language, knowing I sounded more foreign than I had to my friends back home. Even with all the practice, saying it to locals was a slightly different story. Spain has always been one of my bucket list destinations, and I spent weeks practicing saying “Hola” to my friends in anticipation of all the locals I was going to meet in Madrid and Marbella. So I took the plunge and booked my flights to Spain. I wanted to wake up ten years from now being able to look back on photographs and laugh at the memories that I made. What I did know for certain though, was that I didn’t want to wake up ten years from now and have the same questions. But, I certainly didn’t have the confidence in my twenties that I have now, and I probably didn’t understand the importance that an experience like that could have on my life. Yes I didn’t listen in my early twenties when my family encouraged me to see the world, to be spontaneous and pack a suitcase for a last minute adventure. I was single, had a stable job, why didn’t I go on more adventures, why didn’t I take more risks? My sister’s answer was simple, you didn’t listen to us. Last year December I sat at my sister’s house reminiscing on my youth.
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