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I just met my adorable Dominican (I think) neighbors! They live in the apartment house directly across the field. Ususlly the poeple who live there work on the farm for just one season and then leave, but they've been staying there for longer then that now, I think working on the cow farm. I think they'll at lest stay for the winter, as there won't be much farming work anywhere else until spring. At first it was just one family, but now the cousins have moved into the other apartment.
My mom walks past the three little girls with thier mother at the bus stop every morning, and she's become friends with them, mostly becuase they love my dog. The two little ones don't speak much English, and their mother doesn't at all. Mom brought me with her so I could translate for her.
Once the bus left, she started talking to the mother in true Lancaster County style, telling her who she was and where we lived and who all the other neighbors were, and what they did. The poor woman smiled and nodded untill I interjected with some "Como te llamas?" kind of things. I hope she got that it was just my moms way of being friendly.
She wants to invite the girls to make Christmas cookies, which I told the mother. I think next time I see her, I'm going to have to add something like, "Mi madre solamente tiene dos hijas, y mi hermana esta en la universidad, y yo tambien en dos anos. A Ella, le encanta ninos, y extrana mucho." So that she doesn't think that we're crazy gingos who want to steal her children.\
Spanish speakers on the Grove Road. The times they are a-changing, and I like it.
My mom walks past the three little girls with thier mother at the bus stop every morning, and she's become friends with them, mostly becuase they love my dog. The two little ones don't speak much English, and their mother doesn't at all. Mom brought me with her so I could translate for her.
Once the bus left, she started talking to the mother in true Lancaster County style, telling her who she was and where we lived and who all the other neighbors were, and what they did. The poor woman smiled and nodded untill I interjected with some "Como te llamas?" kind of things. I hope she got that it was just my moms way of being friendly.
She wants to invite the girls to make Christmas cookies, which I told the mother. I think next time I see her, I'm going to have to add something like, "Mi madre solamente tiene dos hijas, y mi hermana esta en la universidad, y yo tambien en dos anos. A Ella, le encanta ninos, y extrana mucho." So that she doesn't think that we're crazy gingos who want to steal her children.\
Spanish speakers on the Grove Road. The times they are a-changing, and I like it.