Hey everyone!
Hope all is well wherever you are to be found!
This last week has been..... Interesting.
Last Sunday we were walking down the street through a
sketchy part of Corona when this guy stopped us and asked us if we spoke
Spanish. Nuenschwander said that we did. The guy, clearly hammered
out of his mind, immediately said you don't speak Spanish, he speaks Spanish,
pointing to me. He then asked me if I would buy him food because he spent all
of his money on booze. I said sure and we went to this dirty Chinese place that
was on the corner. We walked in, he ordered his food and I paid for it. He then
told us about how God is an alien and some other really funny stuff. He asked
Morrison, 'do you believe that God is huge?' Morrison said, "God is
everything." The drunk dude seemed amazed at this and promptly started to
blubber. Meanwhile the chino people working at this restaurant were all
laughing their butts off at all of us. To be fair it was pretty funny. We were
probably the oddity of the week. I asked the drunk guy where he was from. He
said he was from Honduras. I said the standard response, "tu eres
catracho!" He lit up and started singing a song "No Ay un pueblo mas
macho que un pueblo catracho". Then he started crying again. We decided it
was time to go so I told him to not drink anymore, he said no, and then we
left.
We've noticed [lately] that Chinese people will gladly run
you over in their cars this last little while. A whole new meaning to the quote
from the movie Elf, "the yellow ones don't stop!" The other day we
were crossing junction and I almost got run over I looked up and screamed
"the yellow ones don't stop!" just out of pure instinct, and sure
enough it was a chino dude trying to murder me.
There is only one week left of this transfer and then los
tres mosqueteros will be broken up! Being in a trio is fun but it takes a lot
of dedication to get everyone headed in one direction.
Can't wait to see what happens this next transfer! I hit
my 8 month mark a week ago! 1/3 of the way done!
We'll keep on rockin here!
Ry
Melvin, a member here that's about to leave for Colombia
Cali! Then Saul Sarmiento -- eating a sandwich.
Oh and the good looking one is me.
