Qué Qué Qué?

Spanish is always fun. Especially for other people that see you brain freeze. Sadly for the aforementioned other people, they manage to suffer a fair amount of pure embarassment themsleves.

For sophomore year, Spanish class, however, is no longer Spanglish Class, it's 100% uninterrupted quickfire Spanish (with a very heavy Madrid lisp nonetheless!), which is a good thing for those fluent, but for the rest of us, we'll be lost for a few weeks. However, my class includes a few kids who should be in AP, but due to the rather inflexible nature of school officials, they're stuck in sophomore year Spanish, but our teacher wastes no time using them as test subjects for our language abilities. One such girl, we'll call her Breana, was being used for that purpose, as we had to ask her questions about her vacation to Poland, Paris and Italy. I was getting all pumped up to ask the ideal question, "Did you have fun?" -- with correct grammar, (there were much worse ones, notably "Did they food had enjoyed?" or "Paris were bought, no?") but sadly, a friend of mine who I had been sitting next to me obviously had been reading my mind. Unfortunately, Mister Madrid decided to pinpoint me next, and I stopped dead in my thought tracks.

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I gobbled out "Did you go shopping?" to Breana, and she responded thankfully. The worst was over for me, but not for an other certain classmate, who we'll call Steff. I was surprised that Steff was in our class in the first place, with her orange-and-black soccer get-up and seemingly jock ditz attitude, but oh well. Mister Madrid calls her next, and her brain freeze makes me look like a teacher's pet.
"Qué?" responds Steff. (translation: What?)
"Tienes una pregunta para 'Breana'"? (translation: Do you have a question for 'Breana'?)
"Qué?"
"Tienes una pregunta?"
"Qué? Qué?"
The kiddo next to her, obviously a friend, tried to help her out, "Una pregunta!"
"Qué? No tengo? Qué" (translation: What? I don't have? What?")

Oh well. At least I'll learn something.

-Jar Jar