Despues de años y años de practice and after many many novios argentinos, me he dado cuenta de que my spanish will never be perfect. Voy a siempre hablar Spanglish. Y that’s okay.
So, here’s a story in my preferred language:
En 1936 hubo una guerra civil en Spain. My grandfather y su familia were forced to leave el país secretly in the middle of the noche. Mi bisabuela llevó unas joyas en su boca para venderlas mas tarde. La familia walked desde Barcelona hasta Italia! Pues, eso dice mi abuela.
They stayed in a resort converted for refugees. Allá mi abuelo, con 16 años, descubrió su talento and passion for playing cards, especially poker. Jugó muchisimo! Y ganó muchisimo! Contra hombres mucho older than he. He didn’t say a word to his parents about his winnings.
One day they told him he would be better off in NYC donde le esperaba un amigo de su padre. And so, con solo el traje que llevaba puesto, mi abuelo boarded a ship bound for America. Antes de marcharse, he gave a sus padres todo el dinero que habia ganado! Of course my great grandmother cried. Que dulce!
Mi abuelo llegó a los EEUU, learned English, joined the army, and married una Boricua. Nació mi padre. Y then my aunt. This new family moved back to Spain for a while, but decidieron que Chicago era mejor para ellos. Muchos años despues, I was born. Y aqui estamos.
Cada vez que estoy en Barcelona, I like to imagine my grandfather in the streets as a boy. Before the war, su familia tuvo una tienda de typewriters en la calle Jose Antonio. Franco changed the names of many streets, but I found un taxista bien bien viejo y he remembered la calle from before the war. Me llevó a la tienda! Now it is a boutique hotel. But I stood in front studying the sidewalk, wondering how many times my grandfather had waited in that exact spot.
Esta vez en Barcelona, I looked for small cafés y restaurantes establecidos antes de 1936. I found two! En los dos pedi churros y chocolate. I was sure my grandfather had probably ordered the same. Y me los comi parada en la barra because that’s how my grandfather would have done it. Es deliciosa la comida española pero es una delicia mexclar la historia con la imaginación.
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