This post is waaaaay overdue. But pictures are here to attack you!

'the bomba routine'

'did a presentation about Malaysia'

talking to one of the students... See how

I was giving my full attention...

Apple candy is Y-U-M-M-Y

my sister says it's a tradition to

eat these in Autumn

Apple covered with oh-so-sweet

sugar^^

I seriously wanted to cry when I ate this...

Reminds me so much of the curry puff back home.

See that red stuff, that's chili sauce

The neighborhood I live in

ayam masak merah...

foggy morning... Can't see a thing...

Little heart breaker in the bus >.<

I seriously like this picture. The sun... GAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!

And this picture too... Taken on the way to school.

Meep just gave birth to three adorable kittens. They're

so cute!!!!!!!!!!!

Protective mother mode - ON

I'll update again latttteeeeerrrrrr.... That is, if I don't get lazy...

Ciao ciao

XOXO MaRiAnI

Que difícil es hablar el español

Today, Parkee (also an AFS student) showed me a song lyric, 'Que difícil es hablar el español' which literally means 'It Is Difficult To Speak Spanish'.

Spanish is, well, spoken in a lot of countries especially in the Latin America. So naturally, each country will eventually have their own 'version' of Spanish. For example, in Argentina we speak 'Castellano'. The double 'l' pronounced as j instead of y. It is kind of difficult for me at first since the one month I learnt Spanish two years ago, I learned Spain Spanish and it was pronounce as y. But now, if I try to pronounce it with a 'y' it will just sound funny and weird. And also, since there's so many slang, sometimes the word that may not cause harm in one country, can be quite insulting in other countries. Below is the video of the song. And also the lyric (but only the chorus since the Google translate version is just bull and my Spanish is crappy to even try to translate this all by my own)... I'll put the translation beside the sentence.

Qué difícil es hablar el español, (It is difficult to speak Spanish)
Porque todo lo que dices tiene otra definición, (Because everything you say means something else as well)
Que difícil entender el español, (It is difficult to understand Spanish)
Si lo aprendes no te muevas de región.(If you learned it, don't move from that region) *as different Spanish speaking countries have different slang of Spanish... So yeah... Stay where you learned the language!

I will try to translate all the lyric since it is quite long. Actually, it is one the longest lyric I've ever seen... The song itself is like 8 minutes. Totally defeated Bollywood songs! Once I get that done (hopefully) I will post it here.

So, today at school we did something called 'Bomba' which is a tradition for all the fifth year student whom will graduate this year. The girls gathered in this large circle and the guys will form a smaller circle in the middle. And then the guys will initiate a few shouts (I can't really remember what they shout actually) and the girls will shout after that. I'll post the video in the next pose. The video wasn't mine, by the way. I took it from Parkee.

I'll add pictures too in the next pose since internet connection is kinda slow now. So BYE!

XOXO mArIaNi