On Fridays we do laundry. It has been really interesting doing laundry here. We are in this TINY little hole in the wall store front. Not very big at all. MAYBE 15 feet by 15 feet with 4 washing machines and 3 dryers, but only one of them really works. So needless to say, we are there for a while. There are a bunch of people that come in to do laundry while we are there and it is kind of awkward because we have taken over the whole store! But it is fun! There isn’t a window… there is just a HUGE hole in the wall. But that is SO nice because if there wasn’t there would be no airflow what so ever! If you know anything about Puerto Rico, it is hot and HUMID! The humidity is ridiculous here!
At one point in our laundry adventure and older couple came in to do laundry. The woman sat down and the man was standing in the door way joking around with the worker. So I TRIED to offer him my seat so that he could sit down. In my best Spanish (and confidence) that I could muster I said “quiere sentir?” Um… if you want to say “would you like to sit” you would say “quiere sentar” with an ‘A’ if you say it with an ‘I’ you are asking if the person you are talking to if they would like to ‘feel.’ Needless the man gave me an awkward look and said “?Como?!” Which basically means “what?” I eventually just got frustrated with myself because I could not for anything remember what the word I was trying to say was and I just stood up and pointed at the chair with my hand outstretched and said, “would you like to sit down?”
Embarrasing. Oh the joys of learning a new language.
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