Haven't done this in a while... So a in the past few weeks (quite a few actually) we prepared a field trip to the Mouraria and went there in the previous thursday, but I'll talk about that in the next LJ Entry.
Before all that we received a group of students from Hungary and we decided it would be a nice thing if we spoke in different languages to the hungarians, like portuguese, spanish, french (they had no clue what we were talking about, only by context) and german (they understood some words...), and they talked a bit of hungarian too (I didn't understood one word besides Lisbon). And then I was going to translate what our class told in all those languages to english, which wasn't very difficult, all speeches were simple, welcome, we wish you have a great time, bla, bla, bla... but because I was going to be the only one who would be speaking in english, and because they would only understand my language, I was going to start with “And during the few moments that we have left, we want to talk, right down to earth, in a language that everybody here can easily understand.”. While I was practising this sentence outside someone told me "You will sound stupid." and I asked if he knew who Malcolm X was, he answered no. I asked more people the same quetions and they answared the same response. Then I thought I may sound stupid if people don't get the reference. Insted I end up saying "Now I'll speak in English and everyone here should understand me" and people laughed... But after that I was thinking "maybe I should make a short presentation about Malcolm X to give this people a bit of culture" and since I have to give one presentation solo I might do it soon.
Now back to the hungarians, since that day I've never seen them again and had no clue where they were while they stayed in Portugal, oh well...
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