Wow, finding out you are Chilean after all this time.
I remeber a Chilean brother and sister came to join my high school back in around 1979. They were fraternal twins and they were in my Spanish class, as was thought to be a relatively comfortable place for them to hang out. They spoke no English, and apparently had fled Chile as were political refugees. I'm sure they did fine in the end. They were obviously educated, even if they couldn't communicate much that first year.
My mom's family came by this country honestly--my aunt got accepted into a U.S. government job and some of the family kinda tagged along. I remember helping my mom with her citizenship test. She was successful in naming all 13 of our original "colonics".
My grandfather released a similar bombshell on my dad not too long ago. My grandmother had a stroke over 10 years ago and has been in her own world for years, but maybe 7 months ago, she started speaking in a THICK Spanish accent. Like Castilian spanish. When my dad wondered where it came from, my grandfather revealed that in fact, they both were kids in Spain and then moved to Cuba at an early age. All this time, my dad thought he was a second-generation Cuban, when he was a first generation (only generation in the family considering I was born in the US). So I know how you feel. It was a shock to all of us too.
Also "0 to 60" isn't a measurement of time, it's a measurement of distance to gage time through acceleration. So it'd be more appropriate to say "from Peruvian to Chilean in 3.2 seconds". "From Peruvian to Chilean in 0 to 60" lacks a timescale cause you don't know how fast it takes to GO from 0 to 60. I dunno why I fixated on your subject like that. I'm probably just being an insufferable ass, but there ya go.
Also "0 to 60" isn't a measurement of time, it's a measurement of distance to gage time through acceleration.
I KNEW it didn't sound right, but was in too big a rush to fix it! That's me--queen of the mixed metaphors that make absolutely no freakin' sense at all.
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I remeber a Chilean brother and sister came to join my high school back in around 1979. They were fraternal twins and they were in my Spanish class, as was thought to be a relatively comfortable place for them to hang out. They spoke no English, and apparently had fled Chile as were political refugees. I'm sure they did fine in the end. They were obviously educated, even if they couldn't communicate much that first year.
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My mom's family came by this country honestly--my aunt got accepted into a U.S. government job and some of the family kinda tagged along. I remember helping my mom with her citizenship test. She was successful in naming all 13 of our original "colonics".
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Also "0 to 60" isn't a measurement of time, it's a measurement of distance to gage time through acceleration. So it'd be more appropriate to say "from Peruvian to Chilean in 3.2 seconds". "From Peruvian to Chilean in 0 to 60" lacks a timescale cause you don't know how fast it takes to GO from 0 to 60. I dunno why I fixated on your subject like that. I'm probably just being an insufferable ass, but there ya go.
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I KNEW it didn't sound right, but was in too big a rush to fix it! That's me--queen of the mixed metaphors that make absolutely no freakin' sense at all.
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Thanks for this entertainment.
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*completely losing it* Oh, how your posts make my day. You draw us into your reality and then slay us! Beautiful! "Nice tobacco!"
Still, holy shit, talk about a drink-dropping moment! I would have done the same.
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Do you have any idea how hard that is to do?
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