So you know how in cheesy sitcoms all the boys seem to think it's awesome to date the foreign exchange student who's really hot but doesn't happen to speak any English?
Well, I got to fulfill the fantasy, briefly, with a young, beautiful dude from Brazil. He was amazingly sweet despite the fact that communicating with him was nearly impossible. I met him at a dance club, and it took me about 30 minutes before I realized he wasn't super drunk - he just wasn't speaking English. Literally.
Anyways, it came to a point where I couldn't handle being in the absence of adult conversation and decided I would tell him, with the help of Babel Fish, that I couldn't see him anymore because we didn't understand each other, and that was just no good.
I thought a really cut and dry translation would work well, and that would be the end of that.
But even though the words were a little off, and the accent a little jumbled, it doesn't matter, really, what words you use to tell someone goodbye. Guilt, rejection, sadness...they translated better than anything either of us every tried to say to one another. I regret making someone so sad. He probably has so many questions he can't figure out how to ask. And I have better explanations I don't know how to give. But all I know is he was incredibly upset, and I felt like a jerk, and it didn't matter if I was polite and tried my best to say it right. I don't think I needed to say anything at all.
It just sucks.
1 comment:
Nebosja from Montenegro
Great night
Nuff Said lol
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