Time Travel

Location: French

The topic of the discussion was alternative lifestyles. Avesta puts her hand up and says:

"I had the biggest embarassment of all yesterday. My father nearly crashed the car yesterday due to staring at a transvestite in complete shock!
Class: puzzled dsmayed look on their faces
You maybe wouldn´t look twice but he has values from the last century. I mean the one before. LOL

Adorable Andalusians

As some of you may know, I´m a bit of a complainer sometimes and love to go on about Andlausians being clannish,conservative, unreliable, silly, etc (which is ture to an extent) but one thing I absoutyl cannot deny is that they are freakingly FUNNY and upbeat. I witness a third strike this week (which left half the town blocked and myself barly able to get to my flamenco class) complete with chants, timpani drums, banners and hundreds of people! The follwoing conversation took place behind one such scene in a tiny bar. I went in for a quick slurp of 78% coca hot chocolate to warm up and wake up before class.

Bartender: Ojala que se acabe este jaleo con el paro y todo. (God help us, this mess with the strikes and all ends for once)
Me: (teasingly): I thought you were atheist lol (like 78% of Spaniards are according to the latest survey)
Bartender (deadpan I had enoguh of everything tone): I AM but if (jikingly) anyone will help us get out of thsi mess, it SURE won´t be the Government.
Me: ROFL

No Comment

I picked up Elle magazine to pass the time while waiting for the tram due to the fact that it was raining cats and dogs so I really didn't feel like a half an hour stroll through the puddles of Seville's city centre.

I opened the first page which went a bit like this:

One of the most prominent French fashion houses Chanel has been famous for its hats be it for Audrey Hepburn or non-celebrity upper classes. They took inspiration from:

Ascot dames

Ascot hats

Baker boys

and many, many more

However, this season Chanel has opted for something fresh, new, extravagant and daring (you can that again)! The inspiration for their newest hat is no more and no less than

THE FEZ ITSELF! (headdesk, rofl, completely speechless)
This is Chanel's newest creation (if you could call it that) which will be premiered on the catwalks of Paris as part of its Winter/Spring collection.

Now, I know there is a fine line between art, daring, innovation and extravagantly bad taste but in current Chanel's case it has become VERY fine indeed. hehehe

Lols

Most of the following jesty incidents will be from the sunny (note the irony)Seville but some from various times and places.

Colloquial Spanish class

Professor: As you may know, there are may different types of jargon: jargon according to geographical location, age, profession as well as prison jargon although one could consider being in prison a profession itself nowadays.
Class: simultaneous LOL

Professor: Standard language can be found in various authority sources and is usually correct, the only issue being that TV is considered an authority, and for a lot of people, the only one at that.
Class: LOL

Southern Shady Dealings

Location: Yoga

Me: [jokingly] those pose names are so similar I'd need a Dictaphone to remember them
N: No problema, my brother or one of my 50 cousins (lol) can get you one 1/4 price, I'll bring it over next week. (Chesire cat grin)
Me: As long as it's not his usual grey market variety, bring it on.
N: [you should know it look]: You KNOW I can never be sure about that.
Me: Then better don't
Me&N: Simultaneous LOL

Diaspora Italian Men aka Legends

Location:Richmond upon Thames College

Teacher: offering all the options one can have to build a state
G: offering all the counter solutions to prove no state is perfect
Teacher: Listen, we are trying to create a state NOT beat the state. Where did you come up with all those solutions anyway? (continues teaching)
G (facing Angela and I whisper): What does he think I was doing in Germany for the past seven years?
Angela and I: quiet LOL