The winner and still champion, Me.

I played Megan at Trivial Pursuit. I won, but it was a close game. Luckily, unlike a lot of people who have never played me at Trivial Pursuit (Thank you to Alex and Srah, who warned everyone not to play against me. Boogers!), she is still willing to play me. I've also found a few more people to play Trivial Pursuit with...like my roommate and Sarah.

¡No hablo español!

First things first: I do not speak Spanish. I have never been to a country where the official language is Spanish. This story actually happened a while ago, but I tried to blog it and Blogger decided it would be fun to delete it. So this was a while ago and the story wasn’t completely accurate to begin with so this should be FUN!!!
The International Student Union had an ice cream social at school a couple of weeks ago to try and attract attention to the group. I got there early and ate all my ice cream. By the time I finished, all of my friends had left in order to make it to their club meeting. I didn’t want to leave by myself because there can be some creepy people around any college campus after dark, so I asked Alex if I could help out and if he could walk me back to my residence hall afterwards. He said yes and gave me my assignment. Since he was scooping ice cream, I could take over his job, explaining about his native country. I knew a little bit of basic information so I agreed. When I got there, the other student from South America went over and helped Alex scoop ice cream…leaving me all alone to explain about the countries of South America, a continent I have never visited, seen a few times in pictures and know very little about. I did my best to answer any questions that came to me…including:

Guy: So have you ever been to a cock fight?
Me: No.
Guy: Really, or are you just not suppoised to talk about it?
Me: I’m from Ann Arbor.

And…

Person: Was this chicken ever alive?
Me: No, it’s made of plastic, his name is Margot.
Person: MARGOT??? WHAT???
Me: I don’t know, you can ask his owner. He’s the short guy scooping ice cream.

I also got asked if I was from South America because someone heard me speak and thought I had an accent. This is not the first time this has happened. When I was in England, my family went to a restaurant and I said one word and was asked “Where in Scotland are you from?” I just tend to adopt accents when I am around people. It is kind of scary.