Saturday 1 November 2008

Four years and 25 days

I arrived in Spain, to live here, on October 7th 2004. Today I went into a bar and ordered a couple of coffees. I drink Americano, basically a longer black coffee. Maggie's con leche appeared as usual but mine took a long time to arrive. When it did it consisted of a tea bag in a teapot full of hot milk flavoured with cinnamon.

"Oh, I thought you said Tea Americano" said the woman behind the bar.

Lesson 1, page 1 in the Speaking Spanish textbook and I failed.

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