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Lost In Translation

I was just in France now it’s after midnight and I’ve arrived back in Spain. Maybe I’m exhausted from my 4 very long days in Paris, or maybe it´s late and I’m tired, or maybe I have just lost my mind?, but I can no longer speak.

In Paris I got so confused. I started answering questions in Spanish. (In my defense though Petra did slip in some Italian). Now that I’m back in Spain where I more or less speak the language, at least well enough to get by, I find myself mute. Our driver met us at the terminal and I wanted to greet him. How is this done? Bonjour? Hello? Merci? No that’s not right. Several seconds later…Oh! The word I’m looking for is HOLA lol. Then I thanked him in French. I just got too overwhelmed so I sat in the back, silent, while P slept.

Just when I was getting my Spanish back I seem to have regressed to my infancy and can see things I want to respond to, but lack the language to communicate my thoughts. Rad.

Posted by Caro in Random, Rants and raves, THE trip 2009, Travel, weird and tagged with , ,