Among the many mistakes that I’ve made in Spanish this one
by far was the funniest experience I’ve had mixing up/ mispronunciation of
words. As a part of FSF’s effort to recruit girls to come to the program we’ve
spent hours going into schools and running gym classes. One morning we were at
Instituto, a secondary public school, running a gym class for some girls
probably ages 14-17. We did a little warm up and then were doing some
stretching exercises. We normally do stretches, popcorn style, so whenever someone
has an idea they run to the middle and lead the stretch. I had one and ran to
the middle to lead a neck roll stretch. The word for neck is cuello (quwayyo)
but as I went to say cuello I began to say the word for butthole, culo (coolo).
I didn’t say the whole word but everyone knew where the word was going and
busted up laughing. Nicaragua has definitely taught me to relax and laugh at
myself because a lot of times things in life are pretty funny.