Setting: Glacier Park Lodge, an evening in August
Chad:
This is my wife.
Jordanian Girl Who Works at Glacier National Park And Has Just Watched Chad Perform:
Nice to meet you.
Me:
Nice to meet you.
JGWWGNPHJWCP:
So where are you from?
Me:
...Seattle.
JGWWGNPHJWCP:
No. I mean. Where are you from? Because...I mean...I can see...that...
Me:
(beat) My parents are from the Philippines
JGWWGNPHJWCP:
Ah!!! Sigurado ka enjoying inyong pagbisita sa mga bundok? Sigurado sila hindi maganda? pag-ibig ko ito dito.
Me:
Oh. Wow, you speak better Tagalog than I do.
JGWWGNPHJWCP:
Oh, well my servant is Filipino. And she taught me.
Me:
Oh. ...Awesome.
3 comments:
Oh, the people that come into our lives...and thoses that we are happy to let out of our lives... immediately.
If that was me I would have replied: "Ito ba ay masaya sa sarili ng isang alipin? Umaasa ako ikaw ay hindi matalo ang kanyang sa lahat ng oras."
But then again, I don't speak Tagalog...so......it probably wouldn't have happened that way.
She sounds a little rice-ist.
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