I recieved one of those FWD:FWD:FWD emails from a guatemalan friend recently that has some funny/exagerrated truths about reality and pride of being guatemalan. So here I want to share with you (in my english translation) some of those that now also apply to my daily life :)
What it means to be guatemalan (or to work with guatemalans, haha)
1. Have a breakfast of coffee and a "pirujo" (although in reality it's two you always say "a" pirujo)
2. You come home late, wanting to accomplish alot but without time to do anything
3. You wait for wednesdays to go to the movies for 1/2 price, and wait for thursdays to get pizza 2 for 1
4. You sit around whichever day of the week, knowing that the 'next' day you have to go to work.
5. Save your money all week to buy minutes for your phone on a promotional day of double, triple, or cuadruple minutes
6. You have the most expensive cell phone you can buy, and hide it in places the most covert (like in my pants) so that they don't rob it from you on the bus
7. Always dip whatever bread or cookie you have in your coffee
8. Eat a roll with cheese, beans, or butter
9. Repeat proudly that the Guatemalan National Hymn is the best in the world, although most don't know all the verses (however beautiful, it does happen to be the longest song I've ever heard in my life, haha)
10. Eat "caldo de res" (a broth with vegs. and beef fat) while listening to the marimba
11. Wait in anticipation for the 15th of september (Central American Indepence Day) for the parades yet you end up not leaving your house to see them because it always rains the 15th of September
12. Plan the whole month to go to the beach and when the day comes noone goes because this day it rained of course (this includes planing just about anything)
13. Asking the obvious "Your just NOW getting here?," "Oh my god!," "You get wet?," "Did that hurt?,"
14. Also emphasis the evident and repeat it as if repeating it will bring about to change it... "It's so cold, really cold" "Geez luiz, how hot it is..." "Today yes, it's raining, like cats and dogs" and each person that comes in to where you are returns to say the same thing as if noone ever knew it, haha
15. To go to bed later Sunday than any other day of the week so that when Monday comes you want even less to go to work
The email continues on and says, "Are we or are we not special?" "Are we or are we not the best?" "Bless this my Guate, her earth, her customes, her people, and her future..."
Guatemala surely is a special country, and I'm glad I can share the traditions and "life" in a little humor with you all.
Peace, Love,
Robin
2 comments:
Guatemalan Pride #1 - What is a pirujo? My Polish Great Grandmother used to call these yummy raised powdered donuts with raisins in them,"punchkies." Last one I ever saw was from a Baltimore {Polish} bakery about 30+ years ago! #2 - Heck, that's true for all humankind, and time gets shorter and shorter the longer you are on earth!
Talking donuts, have you ever had those yummy warm raised donuts they have in some Chinese restaurants?
Hey, a pirujo is a typical sweet bread here, kind of like a donut but without frosting and sometimes pretty hard. (I wish they had raisins) and yes I love those donuts they have in Chinese Restaurants! But I have to say my local bakery here does a mad good donut, puts krispy creme to the test actually.
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