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Saturday, August 23, 2008

time difference

Coping with Time Difference: Manana, Tarde y Noche

I had warned Nisarga that it may be hard for him to communicate with people in Spain, since not everyone speaks English and he doesn’t speak Spanish. I assured him that I would translate for him whenever he needed. What I had not considered was the translation we both would need to understand the time. No I don’t mean the time on the watch or the mobile. Time is relative, everyone knows that, especially between cultures. So we slowly began to understand that manana was anything before noon, lunch was around 3pm, and dinner was at the earliest 9pm but more like 10 or 11pm. Siesta was from around 1 or 2 until 5 or 6. Needless to say, we were usually starving way before any meal times, and way exhausted by the end of dinner. I don’t think we ever really got used to this time difference.

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