Day 59 - Los chistes en Spanglish

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The morning, for the both of us, was again a brain buster of Spanish verbs and vocab. With Gemma learning about hobbies and how to say she likes things, in the 5 different ways! Ed learnt that even at age 29, teachers are still disappointed when you don't do your homework.

After school our host family kindly took us on a trip to one of Guanajuato's old silver mines. Here we realised our competence in Spanish is not as high as we'd thought. The people we've been talking with so far are clearly making allowances for us (talking slowly and using simple vocab), but when it came to the guided tour around the mine we couldn't understand a thing.

We also had a look at an exhibition of Spanish Inquisition paraphenalia, all of it very gruesome. Finally Hayde showed us an old castle that is being converted into the biggest and best hotel in the state, with it's own golf course. So in a couple of year's time there will be no excuse not to visit this fantastic town.

Jokes translated into Spanish fall flat to Spaniards but it got us talking and learning nevertheless. Having said that, the world's funniest joke (2 snowmen in a field, 1 says to the other, "can you smell carrots ?") was pretty effective even in pigeon Spanish.

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Correction; we would like to apologize to the people of Guanajuato. The alleyway that we use everyday actually has 360 steps, not the 300 we had previously reported.

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