The Gringo: A Memoir by J. Grigsby Crawford

Author:J. Grigsby Crawford [Crawford, J. Grigsby]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Peace Corps, travel, gringo, sex, South America, ecotourism, memoir, Ecuador
Publisher: Wild Elephant Press
Published: 2012-12-10T05:00:00+00:00

ONCE, IN A RESTAURANT, I had a conversation that went like this:

Teenage girl: “Where are you from?”

Me: “The U.S.”

Girl: “Ah, and do you speak English?”

Me: “Yes, it’s our country’s primary language.” (Had I been in a more chipper mood, I might have added the surely mind-blowing statistic that the U.S. also had thirty million more Spanish speakers than Ecuador.)

Girl: “Cool, do you speak Spanish as well?”

Me: “Yes . . . wait, what?”

Girl: “Spanish. Do you speak it?”

Me: “We’ve been speaking Spanish the entire time I’ve been sitting here.”

Girl: “So do you speak Spanish?”

Me: “I guess not.”

I finished my meal in silence.

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