If you would’ve told me a month ago that I’d be spending a Friday night
in a bar speed-dating style my way through Spanish, I probably would’ve laughed at
you. But yes I did it. It wasn’t actually speed dating but it was
definitely set up to look like that. The program was called Spanglish and every table had a number and one person who stayed (the Spanish speaker)
and one person who moved (the English speaker).
I was assigned a number and groaned inside when I saw that I was placed
with a 30-40 year old Porteno (someone from Buenos Aires). Typically when I get a piropo (what they call
any comment, cat-call, whistle, etc) it comes from men 30+ so I was slightly dreading
the imminent conversation. By some
stroke of luck though, the guy seemed very nice and then 30 seconds into the
conversation told me and was single and gay.
I’ve never been so happy to hear that.
We proceeded to rotate through to meet each person for a couple minutes until we rotated. I was glad to be able to meet some really nice Porteno guys and girls. We even got the chance to meet some our age and went out with them afterwards. This speed chatting was super fun and I am definitely going to have to do it again. J
PS: To clarify for my mom, this was not actually speed dating. The director of our education abroad program got us together to go to this to practice our spanish. The goal was to give both spanish and english speakers the opportunity to speak the other language.
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