1981
I’m sure that most of you have played the standard get to know you game, Two Truths and A Lie. In case you haven’t, the premise of the game is that you say three interesting facts about yourself-two are true and one is a lie. Everyone has to guess the lie. For example, BYU Coed: “I hiked Mount Timpanogas last summer, I think that singing hymns in an enclosed space is an awesome date and I drank alcohol once in high school.” When it is revealed that a night of passion with Jack Daniels is the lie, everyone gets a good laugh at the edgy, ironic reference to sin.
The fact that I am half Mexican is my reliable truth time after time, because I look like a fresh off the boat Swede (ok, maybe shorter and chubbier, but with better teeth). You should not be misled by the fact that my little sister was once cast as a Hitler Youth in a school play-the blood of noble Montezuma pumps proudly through our veins. Ok, that’s my fib, because we are Mexican by virtue of descending from 19th century polygamists on the lam. Shout out Mitt, because so are you!
Life as a first generation American can be difficult, especially when your parents have the motherland enclosed in a vice-like grip. When I was a teen, my dad had a shirt that proudly proclaimed, “Orgullo mexicano (Mexican Pride)” and I was always afraid that he would get jumped by countrymen who thought that this rubicund, blond man was making fun of them. Soulful mariachi music pumping from the family minivan wasn’t necessarily the culmination of all of my adolescent fantasies, but my early exposure to Latin America has shaped the course of my life. I am hoping that that will culminate in a holy union with a highly educated Latin Lover who takes me to his country and gives me twenty maids (potential to become a military dictator a plus, unless you are Mel Zelaya, the deposed Honduran president). If you fit this description please enter my contest (you will receive an autographed glamour shot of me, not the nineteen-year-old model) and then leave your foto in the comments section. Gracias.
¡¡¡¡¡Viva México Lindo!!!!!
Have you read any books by Terry Pratchett? If not, you should. He's hilarious and you have a very similar sense of humor, I think.
ReplyDeleteDisclaimer: if you hate him and his books I didn't mean anything I said here. All similarities between you and him are merely a product of my own imagination.