A conversation

While I was at my Rotary meeting tonight I had the following conversation:

Me (in a whisper): Why are they talking about Spain?

Rotarian 1: Do you want to go to Spain?

Me: What?

Rotarian 1: Hey Alain, can she come to Spain?

Rotarian 2 (my counselor): Yes she’s coming. Elizabeth, do you want to go to Spain?

Me: Uh, okay. I mean, yes. Yes, please… Wait, when are we going to Spain?

Rotarian 1: It’s for a week in April.

Rotarian 2 (with a wink): We’ll excuse you from school. The club pays for the trip.

Me: Wow. Ummm… wow. Thank you. (Looking for another better way to say ‘thank you)… Thank you!

Rotarian 2: C’est normal*

I love my Rotary club. I love this crazy and amazing year.

*this is difficult to translate directly; it means along the lines of: ‘of course,  it’s to be expected,  don’t worry about it,  etc.’

In other news, last night I helped my host family put up the Christmas tree and made them pancakes with maple syrup for dinner. The maple syrup was from the gift exchange this last weekend. They liked it, but were surprised when I suggested making eggs to go with it, since it put salty and sugary on the same plate. Good things we didn’t have any bacon on the plate to mix with the maple syrup!