A few of my favorite questions

I´ve been so humored by the questions I get asked sometimes, that I thought a couple of them would be post-worthy:

• Where does your name come from? Is your father latino? Why Andrea? ...to all three of these questions, I explain that ¨Andrea¨ is also a very common name in English.
  

• How do you say ¨mall¨ in English? ...mall

• The other day I was with a friend and I sneezed. She said ¨cheers¨ and then asked how to say ¨salud¨in English. In Spanish, ¨salud¨is used both when you sneeze and make a toast. I taught her the phrase ¨bless you¨and days late am still humored by her comment!

Pronunciation is also something that greatly humors me. I had a student last night pronounce ¨knuckle¨more like ¨canookle¨. After a few more big pronunciation errors, I decided I´ll be devoting a large portion of our next class to pronunciation exercises!

Upper 80s in Santiago this week! I walked from one school to the other yesterday mid-afternoon and got some sun. My family was really concerned that I had gotten burnt. I tried to explain that I was not burnt, but they didn´t believe me until this morning when I woke-up and my mom said, ¨You have such a nice tan!¨

I showered before bed last night and didn´t dry my hair. This is a big problem here because apparently you´re doomed to get sick or maybe even die...who knows. My family was pleased to see me alive and healthy when I got up this morning. I´m such a rule-breaker, I know ;)