Sister Pearl's World

me!

Hi. I'm Marco's sister. Those of you who don't know me can call me Pearl. When I was nineteen, I bit into a pearl in a fried oyster in some linoleum-floored crab shack on Cape Cod.

I'm a recovering graduate student, high school Spanish teacher, unrepentant history geek, and budding mystic. I've traveled to four of the seven continents. I always love to discuss politics, religion, history, and philosophy. In my other life, I'm also a wife with really poor housekeeping skills. But I can cook.

 




8th period

Mickey: Señora, what's the Spanish word for 'piñata'?
Me: Piñata! It's actually a Spanish word.
Mickey: So, what's the English word for 'piñata'?
Me: Same word -- piñata! It's a borrowed word, we borrowed it from Spanish, and just use the same word in English for the same thing.
Mickey: Whoa. Whoooooaaaa. That is one of the most mind-boggling things I've ever heard.
January 12, 2012
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