Do you know what's awkward?

Going to a party with a bunch of people you don't know, and being assigned to two of them and expected to talk with them for most of two hours.

In other news, we had the first Velada Internacional for the compañeros de conversación program last night. Don't get me wrong. I think that compañeros de conversacion is a good program to have; we'll meet more people (and also practice our Spanish - but I'm doing that most of the time). And I can't think of a particularly better way of kick-starting it than throwing a giant party and sticking all of the people involved in the same room. But that doesn't mean that it wasn't really awkward. In fact, as one of the girls pointed out, it was kind of like being on a blind date - only they were double-teaming you (and actually, while we were each assigned two compañeros/as, there was also a waiting list, so program people would come around occasionally and shove more Spanish people in your direction. There were points where I was in the middle of a semicircle of five Spaniards (literally in the middle; I was practically sitting on the table)).

( Highlights on the awkward )

However, I did eventually figure out that they were both students hoping to become English teachers, and quiet guy seems to have a good sense of humor if you can get him to be un-awkward enough to talk, and the other seems to be a right proper geek; video games and fantasy and sci-fan (not the introverted sort of geek, though (luckily - otherwise we would have been treated to even-more-awkward than it was already).

In other news, I need to figure out how to say awkward in Spanish.

Because it amused me

From operafloozy:

If it strikes your fancy, please post a comment with a completely fictional memory of you and me.

It can be anything you want, but it has to be fake.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with... or not, as you will.



I don't know if the current version of Miriam vs. Bureaucracy goes to me, to Pennsylvania, or if it's a tie, but I'm going to call it mine.