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November 30, 2002
like a spaniard so been
like a spaniard
so been spending so much time with basque folks, that i found myself speaking with vosotros (a spain specific verb term) and lisping my c`s. apparently i`ve slipped back into the spain accent, at least sort of, but i guess i`m really in between. the worst is that i keep combining the slang, for instance `hostia, guey` and stuff like that. it`s funny, but i will be sure to slip back into mexican spanish when i move away from the posada where i`m staying at, which apparently is a basque haven, there are at least 12 of them there right now, in truth i love it and it makes me long so badly for san sebastian. huazen means vamonos or `lets go!` in basque, other then that i haven`t learned any new basque. one thing i find very interesting is that the basque people who come here to work in zapatista villages have a less difficult time learning tsotsil, the mayan language, cause it has similar features to basque. both of them are weird and damn hard to learn.
the lady in cancun is out of town but i`m calling tomorrow, when she`s supposed to be back, and if i can`t get ahold of her i`m gonna be quite fucking annoyed. hopefully i will.
bruce and kathryn and i went for a walk out to the river today, so sunny and green and beautiful, we sat on the grass and chatted, they like it here but want to go back to the beach. i long for swimming as well, but this town is so great i`m not worried, there will be beaches in cuba, i`m sure. i should see steve in 12 days, excited about that.
been having a lot of good discussion with all the basque people, there`s a real connection they feel between the zapatistas and the basque separatist movement. all my opinions about the basque situation are based on what i`d learned from 2 years ago, and things have changed a bit, for one the EH party, the basque political party that in effect condones the violence, was outlawed earlier this year. they all point out that outlawing political parties isn`t the practice of any government that pretends to call itself a democracy. i see their point, and when they point out how the spanish government has been making efforts to curtail basque culture, for example taking the basque language out of public schools in two of the basque states, i can sympathize with them completely. but at the same time, the violence makes the rest of spain dislike the entire basque country, even if it`s a tiny minority of people who actually makes the bombs, and in the current world state of fighting terrorism, blowing people up and shooting officials in the head is gonna alienate people more then convince them that the cause is viable and within reach in some semi distant future. anyways, enough about that, i know we all think about the basque movement enough as it is. hehe
ok, that`s all for now. going drinkin tonight, makin up for missing bruce`s birthday.
Posted by bendan at November 30, 2002 05:02 PM
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