Yesterday, Sunday, I went to church with my host parents. They are super catholic (as in we have church group meetings in our house twice a week and they are all very involved with the church). The attend the big cathedral in the center of town (the photo to the right is the old facade...the church entrance is actually out of the picture). I asked if I could go with them with because I thought it would be interesting and a good way to practice my spanish comprehension. I didn´t catch most of what was said but I could pick out lots of words (like brothers, children of God, community, etc). I hadn´t been to a full mass before so it was pretty interesting.
About an hour into the mass, just before communion, I started feeling kind of dizzy, but it was while we were standing so I couldn´t sit down. I tried to talk myself out of the thought that I was about to faint. Fortunately, right about then we went down to kneeling, at which point I promptky fainted. The next thing I know my host parents were picking me up and I was sweating profusely. I can only imagine how they interepreted this. And today, I found out that its a common belief that if a woman faints it means she´s pregnant (don´t worry mom and dad!). I bet it didn´t help that after church, I asked my host parents where I could find the local type of baby carrier (para Erica, por supuesto).
Well, at least now its a funny story.
5 comments:
Oh Dear! Fainting is never good... I guess its better that it happened in a church where there were people and not while you were alone somewhere. It sounds like you had some fun with them asking about the baby stuff - maybe you should continue and get very friendly with your host brothers, see if they will play along.
That really IS a funny story! Thanks for asking about the carrier for me...
A mi me parece que tu alma es catolica. El desmayo es comun entre los nuevas catolicas...
haha! oh ninny, I fainted the first time I went to Catholic mass too-lol! I'm going to have to tell Tony that he'll think it's pretty funny!!
I guess you were really moved by the spirit!
PS- Church meetings in our house? Did that just not happen the first week?
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